All publications: rural employment + rural workers

ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work

A code providing practical guidance to policy-makers, employers’ and workers’ organizations, and other social partners on formulating and implementing appropriate workplace policy, prevention and care programmes.

HIV and AIDS Peer Education Manual

A joint ILO and Family Health International (FHI) teaching manual used in capacity building activities to tackle the lack of adequate knowledge regarding HIV and AIDS.

HIV and AIDS Education and Counselling Manual in Cooperatives and Informal Sector Economy

A manual to educate and sensitize cooperative members and informal workers on HIV and AIDS.

Social Protection Floor Initiative: Manual and Strategic Framework for Joint UN Country Operations

A guide to a global and coherent social policy that promotes nationally defined strategies protecting a minimum level of access to essential services and income security for all.

Extending Social Security to All – A Guide through Challenges and Options

This guide outlines basic concepts, such as the social protection floor and the social security staircase; it analyzes the affordability of various approaches; and examines the results of practices around the world, especially in low- and...

Ergonomic Checkpoints in Agriculture

A manual with checklists for applying ergonomic principles to address agricultural workplace safety and health problems and to improve working conditions.

Village Banking in Lao PDR

Practical tools for strengthening village banks as a means of giving poor women and men in rural and often remote areas access to much needed financial services, social empowerment and a higher quality of life.

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.