All publications: rural employment + rural workers

Skills for Employment Policy Brief

Information Note: Training for Rural Economic Empowerment (TREE)

Part of the Policy Brief series produced by the Skills and Employability Branch

Road to Jobs: Bringing decent work to rural households of the Northern Provinces in Afghanistan - Midterm evaluation summary

Evaluation consultants: Mr. Ashiq Muhammad Rehman (International) and Mr. Samandar Mahmodi (National

Understanding the drivers of rural vulnerability: Towards building resilience, promoting socio-economic empowerment and enhancing the...

EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 214

Employment Research Brief

+789 million and counting: The sub-Saharan African equation

This research brief explores the opportunities that economic diversification offer to foster structural transformation in sub-Saharan Africa.

Rapid Market Assessment - Zimbabwe

Key Sectors for Women and Youth in Zimbabwe

Assessing the apiculture, artisanal mining, mopane worms and horticulture value chains to empower women and youth in Zimbabwe.

Green Business Booklet

Going green is not only good for the environment, but makes business sense too, as the greening of enterprises results in improved access to markets, higher productivity and cost savings. The Green Business Booklet is part of the Green Jobs packages...

Decent Jobs for youth and improved food security through the development of Sustainable Rural Enterprises - Mid-term Evaluation Summary

Market system analysis - Dominican Republic

Creating shared value in the Dominican Republic banana industry

A market systems analysis of plantation business performance and worker wages

Rapid market assessment - Tanzania

Cracking Tanzania's Youth Employment Conundrum

Evaluating the potential for the horticulture, tourism and apiculture value chains to promote youth employment in Tanzania.

Impact Report Series, Issue 5

Evaluating the results of an agricultural cooperative support programme: Business practices, access to finance, youth employment

The “Impact report” series disseminates research reports from Taqeem-supported impact evaluations. Reports include baseline, endline and qualitative studies which describe the impact estimates of evaluations of youth employment interventions based...

Decent Work on Plantations - Brochure

A Market Systems Approach to Decent Work

A Market Systems Approach to Decent Work

Structural transformation to boost youth labour demand in sub-Saharan Africa: The role of agriculture, rural areas and territorial...

EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 204

Independent evaluation of the ILO’s Decent Work Country Programmes, strategies and actions in the Western Balkans (2012-15)

ILO Decent Work Country Programmes (DWCPs) are the primary framework for delivering support to member countries in an effort to promote decent work as a key national development strategy. This high-level evaluation assesses the extent to which the...

Does the combination of vocational and business management training produce extra benefits?

My.COOP Managing your agricultural cooperatives (in Mongolian)

The training package has been designed to enable existing and potential managers of agricultural cooperatives to identify and address major challenges that are specific to cooperatives in market-oriented agricultural development.

Module 4: Cooperative marketing

It is a part of a training package “Managing your agricultural cooperative - My.COOP” that was translated and adapted into the Mongolian herders’ cooperative context. The training package that consists of four modules and a trainers’ manual is now...

Livelihoods and skills training modules

The self-learning modules aimed at enhancing the capacity and improving knowledge of young herders in pastoral livestock rearing, community based business development and social insurance (in Mongolian).

Module 2: Cooperative service provision

It is a part of a training package “Managing your agricultural cooperative - My.COOP” that was translated and adapted into the Mongolian herders’ cooperative context. The training package that consists of four modules and a trainers’ manual is now...