All publications: labour intensive employment + infrastructure

Innovations in Public Employment Programmes International Course Flyer

Organized by ILO-ITC, in collaboration with the Employment- Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP)

Integrated Rural Accessibility Planning – IRAP Guidelines

A guide describing the Integrated Rural Accessibility Planning (IRAP) process for improving access in rural areas; designed for application at the local government level.

Socio-Economic Reintegration of Ex-Combatants Guidelines

Practical policy and practice guidelines to reintegrate excombatants socio-economically in their community.

Local Economic Recovery in Post Conflict Guidelines

Guidelines to provide criteria and instruments inn planning and implementing post-conflict employment promotion based on the local economic recovery (LER) approach: an area-based approach to economic recovery for job creation, income generation, and...

Desarrollo Económico Local y Empleo: Material Para Promotor

A training kit, developed in 2008, aimed at empowering local stakeholders through training and skills development to start up and implement Local Economic Development strategies in a given territory.

Community Contracts

A tool that allows poor communities and low income groups to formulate an agreement with a contracting authority to implement infrastructure works, and therefore function as a contractor. It uses ILO fundamental principles of organization and...

Dynamic Social Accounting Matrix (DySAM):Concept, Methodology and Simulation Outcomes . The case of Indonesia and Mozambique.

Employment Working Paper No. 88

ILO tools and resources for safety and health at work in recovery and reconstruction following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami

In recovery efforts after natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunami, in areas where roads have suffered great damage and the supplies of water, electricity, and other utilities are cut off, work is carried out amidst the scatter of fallen...

Local investments for climate change adaptation: In brief ILO in Asia and the Pacific green jobs through green works

This brochure provides a guide for the identification, design and implementation of interventions in support of climate change adaptation at the local level. It promotes a local resource-based approach for infrastructure development, which adds...

Promoting inclusive job rich growth (Mid Term Evaluation Summary)

Project GLO/09/59/SID - Evaluation consultant: Lars Rylander

Sustaining competitive and responsible enterprises GLOBAL Component (SCORE) - (Mid Term Evaluation Summary)

Project GLO/10/52/NAD - Evaluation consultant: Isabelle Hirs-Schaller and Peter Teuscher, BSD Consulting

Towards an ILO approach to climate change adaptation

Employment Working Paper No. 104

Women in infrastructure works: Boosting gender equality and rural development!

Gender is an important but largely neglected aspect of infrastructure planning and provision. Rural women pay a particularly high price for the lack of infrastructure, in time spent accessing water for domestic or agricultural uses, processing and...

Roads 2000 Road Maintenance Strategy: Strategic plan for July 2005 to July 2010 (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project KEN/08/02/SID - Evaluation consultant: Bjorn Johannessen

Policy Brief 1 - Investments in infrastructure: an effective tool to create decent jobs

It is of crucial importance to assess the overall labour outcome of these investments in terms of direct, indirect and induced employment, not only to assess their short-term effects, but also to assess the longer-term impact on growth and its...

Support to the implementation of the Expanded Pubic Works Programme, Limpopo Province (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project SAF/04/53/SAF, SAF/04/51/UKM - Evaluation consultant: Oladele Arowolo

Benefits of improved road access

A study conducted in June 2010 of the effects of the road improvements on the livelihoods of the targeted beneficiaries by the Project Creating Jobs: Capacity Building for Local Resource-Based Road Works in Selected Districts in NAD and Nias

Local resource-based road works - manual for the ILO/UNDP Project (in Bahasa Indonesia)

One set of the guide consists of six technical manual that describes various aspects of the work of rural roads with low traffic volume, using the method of work based on local resources.

Effects of the training of contractors on their employability and business opportunities

Findings from a contractors tracer study conducted in May 2010 by the Project Creating Jobs: Capacity Building for Local Resource-based Road Works in Selected Districts in NAD and Nias

Comparative costs and benefits of the local resource-based approach to rural road development: synopsis of findings from Aceh

To learn from the experiences in Aceh and Nias, the ILO commissioned a study that was to give insight into the effectiveness and relevance of the Local Resource-Based approach. One of the most interesting innovations to be taken from this study is...