All publications: skilled workers + unskilled workers + training + skills + lifelong learning

Applying the G20 Training Strategy: Partnership of the ILO and the Russian Federation - (Final Evaluation Summary)

Employment promotion following the earthquake in Mianzhu, Sichuan Province of China: Public-Private Partnership

In May 2008, an earthquake registering 8.0 on the Richter scale struck the Sichuan province in China. Official statistics state that over 45 million people were affected, including 69,163 deaths. Approximately 6.5 million homes were destroyed and...

Building capacity for social compliance of investments in African agriculture: Public-Private Partnership

The partner in this PPP, AATIF, is an investment fund that emerged through a public-private partnership initiated by the KfW Development Bank on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and Deutsche Bank. It...

Entrepreneurship education: Know About Business in Jordan: Public-Private Partnership

The ILO’s Know About Business (KAB) training programme has contributed to the creation of an enterprise culture in many countries and societies. It promotes awareness among young people of the opportunities and challenges of entrepreneurship and...

ILO Youth Entrepreneurship Facility Youth-to-Youth Fund in East Africa: Public-Private Partnership

The Youth Entrepreneurship Facility (YEF) enables African youth to turn their energy and ideas into business opportunities to increase their income and create decent work for themselves and others. It is an initiative by the Danish-led Africa...

Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprise (SCORE): Public-Private Partnership

Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) is a practical training and in-factory counselling programme that improves productivity and working conditions in SMEs. The product demonstrates best international practice in the...

Empowering unions and strengthening the Viet Nam General Confederation of Labour in the Better Work Programme: Public-Private Partnership

The partnership is supporting workers’ organizations within Better Work – a multi-country innovative partnership between the ILO and the International Finance Corporation aimed at improving compliance with national labour law and core labour...

SCORE Training Brochure for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME's)

How SCORE Training can enhance business performance for SME's

Skills matching and labour mobility: A policy position paper of the ASEAN Confederation of Employers

As part of the employers’ component of the ASEAN Triangle project an Action Plan to fully engaging employers’ organizations in ASEAN processes was developed with the ASEAN Confederation of Employers (ACE.) Five priority areas namely: skills...

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Indigenous Persons with Disabilities: Access to Training and Employment

This paper was prepared as a resource for a panel discussion organized by the ILO in cooperation with the Government of Australia during the 14th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on 23 April 2015 in New York. (EPUB...

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Indigenous Persons with Disabilities: Access to Training and Employment

This paper was prepared as a resource for a panel discussion organized by the ILO in cooperation with the Government of Australia during the 14th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on 23 April 2015 in New York.

Jobs and skills for youth: review of policies for youth employment of the Russian Federation

Towards a Mutual Recognition of Skills in CLM (Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar) Countries for AEC 2015 and Beyond (Project fact sheet)

The ILO has been providing technical assistance (in collaboration with the ADB) with the development of MRS, including the development of Regional Model Competency Standards (RMCS) and national skills standards, and mutual recognition mechanisms on...

Lao-Korea National Skills Standards Development in the Construction, Automotive & ICT Sectors (Project fact sheet)

This project aims to support Lao DPR’s commitment in skills development; work with the construction sector started in 2009 and expanded to the automotive and ICT (information and communications technology) sectors in 2011 and 2013, respectively. The...

Skills Recognition for Migrant Workers (Project fact sheet)

The ILO/Korea Partnership Programme’s work on the skills recognition for migrant workers dates back to 2006. The main objective of this project is to develop a more inclusive, flexible, accessible and transparent system for skills recognition that...

Skills for Green Jobs (Project fact sheet)

Since 2012 the ILO/Korea Partnerships Programme has conducted research, with a particular focus on understanding skills gaps and needs in the priority occupations. Two research exercises have been undertaken, one in Thailand and one in China. The...

Regional Model Competency Standards: Welding services

Economic growth in the industrial sector means the need to meet skills gaps in welding services has become critical. Welding can be a highly dangerous occupation, due to exposure to fumes and gases, and working conditions that may require working...

Women and rural roads, July 2015

The survey explores the social-economic outcomes for women who live on R4D-rehabilitated roads and provides a gender perspective on the data outlined in the R4D Labourers’ survey report.

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Bilateral Agreements and Memoranda of Understanding on Migration of Low Skilled Workers: A Review

ILO instruments have long recognized the potential of bilateral cooperation in the good governance of labour migration flows, and in contributing to the protection of migrant workers. In the recent past, bilateral labour arrangements (BLAs) such as...

Policy brief

Who are Viet Nam’s 18 million wage workers?

The new policy brief issued by the ILO in Viet Nam reveals a comprehensive portrait of wage earners in Viet Nam. These important characteristics are expected to be translated into evidence-based policies that best fit the workforce, meet today’s and...