All publications: rural employment + rural workers

Rural Microfinance

A chapter from the training curriculum, "Making Microfinance Work: Managing Product Diversification"

Business Group Formation: Empowering Women and Men in Developing Communities

A trainer’s manual to support organizations working with different producers’ groups to help them increase their economy of scale and address common challenges.

Training for Rural Economic Empowerment - TREE

A development approach ensuring that women and men in poverty gain skills and knowledge that they can apply to improve their incomes and take a more active role in shaping their communities.

Minute Guide for Young Jobseekers

A self-help guide to assist young jobseekers make informed decisions about their career prospects and job options.

Career Guidance: A Resource Book for Low and Middle-income Countries

A guide to develop effective career guidance systems and career information, to organize service delivery, staff development and improve governance and coordination in low and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Rural Development Tools - Value-Chain Development for Decent Work

A guide addressing Value Chain Development (VCD) from a market development perspective with a unique focus on how to achieve Decent Work.

Local Economic Development (LED) Sensitizing Package

A package aimed at sensitizing policy makers to Local Economic Development (LED), showing that it provides the adequate framework both to maximize the socioeconomic potential of any area – regardless of whether rich or poor, developed or...

Let’s Organize! : A Syndicoop Handbook for Trade Unions and Cooperatives About Organizing Workers in the Informal Economy

A resource tool for trade union and cooperative organizers and trainers.

Know About Business - KAB

A training methodology to create awareness about entrepreneurship among youth.

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...

Financial Education Training Materials

A series of training materials designed to teach vulnerable groups (including women and men in poverty, families with working children, youth and migrant workers) financial knowledge and management skills.

ILO’s Role in Conflict and Disaster Settings

A trainer’s giude and toolkit on all ILO tools related to crisis situations, designed to facilitate training courses and presentations on ILO crisis response and prevention, with an emphasis on the promotion of decent work.

Labour Migration Governance for Rural Development

Key issues and policy options for migration governance for rural development.

Unlocking indigenous peoples’ potential for sustainable rural development

Key issues and policy options to unlock the potential for sustainable rural development among indigenous and tribal peoples.

Creating opportunities for rural communities affected by HIV and AIDS

Key issues and policy options to create opportunities for rural communities affected by HIV and AIDS.

Cooperatives for People-Centred Rural Development

Key issues and policy options to promote the cooperative business model in rural areas.

Food Security through Decent Work

Key issues and policy options to promote sustainable food security strategies involving rural areas.

Food, drink and tobacco industry driving rural employment and development

Key issues and policy options to promote productive, decent jobs in the global food production system.