All publications: labour intensive employment + infrastructure

Technical Brief

Using digital technologies in employment-intensive works

This technical brief presents examples of the Employment-Intensive Investment Programme’s (EIIP) use of digital technologies during the planning, implementation, monitoring and closure/evaluation phases of a project cycle.

Envisaged Impacts of Covid-19 Pandemic on Public Works Programmes

Recommended Mitigation Measures

Minor tank rehabilitation

Guidance note on employment intensive tank rehabilitation

This publication is an important result of the ILO's Climate Resilience project implemented in the Northern Province, with the view of building drought resilience of small holder agriculture communities. The guidance note explains the technical...

Policy Brief

The role of public employment programmes and employment guarantee schemes in COVID-19 policy responses

EIIP Project Brief

Papua New Guinea Project Brief

This project brief describes the Employment-Intensive Recovery and Reconstruction Response (E3R) project to mitigate the impact of a series of 7.5 and a 6.7 magnitude that hit the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, between the 26 of February and 8 of...

Employment Policy Brief

Migration and job creation in North/West Africa: Employment-intensive investment strategies in The Gambia, Mauritania, and Tunisia

This note explains how the ILO supports its constituents, particularly the countries of the origin of migrants, in addressing migration issues through job creation with the EIIP approach, with concrete examples from the ILO’s experiences in The...

Guide

Training Manual - Construction of Rural Road Pavements Utilizing Labour-Based Technology

Guide

Construction of low volume sealed roads 2013 - good practice guide to labour-based methods

EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 249

The “Possible Trinity” of Agricultural Investment Policies: Enhancing Employment Creation, Productivity and Sustainability of Agricultural...

EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 249

Trade and employment

Strengthening the impact of trade on employment in the Philippines (STRENGTHEN): Final project fact sheet

The project aims to strengthen the employment dimension in policies and programmes related to international trade with better analysis, more coherent policy-making, and enhanced programmes that are designed to encourage employment creation and...

Local Resource-Based Approaches in Water Works

The document brings evidence from 12 projects showing the approach in different stages of the project cycle focussing on water and sanitation, small dams; irrigation systems and adaptation works.

Briefing note

Employment through Labour Intensive Infrastructure in Jordan - July 2019

Since 2016, the ILO, with funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of the Federal Republic of Germany, through the German Development Bank (KfW), has been implementing an Employment Intensive...

EIIP Project Brief

Philippines: Local resource-based approach to mitigate the impact of Typhoon Bopha (2013)

EIIP Project Brief

Paraguay: Local resource-based approach for routine road maintenance

EIIP Project Brief

Panama: Local resource-based approach for water and sanitation governance improvement

EIIP Project Brief

Indonesia: Local resource-based approach for inclusive environmental rehabilitation

Appeal: The ILO response to the Idai and Kenneth cyclones in Mozambique

The ILO is launching an appeal to its development partners to support the response to Cyclone Idai and Kenneth in Mozambique.

EIIP Policy Brief

Jordan: Advancing gender equality and supporting job creation among refugees and host communities through public works

EIIP Policy Brief

Nepal: Road maintenance as a vehicle for social inclusion and decent work for women

EIIP Policy Brief

Tunisia: Empowering women through the induced effects of investments for economic diversification