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

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.

Report

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...

Vocational teachers and trainers in a changing world: the imperative of high-quality teacher training systems

EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 177

Education

Educating for Union Strength

The handbook emphasizes the importance of training educators and focuses on ‘educating the union educator’ to implement education activities that are learner focused and based on the principles of solidarity and collectivism. It recognizes that...

Second edition

Combating forced labour: A handbook for employers and business

This handbook provides guidance material and tools for employers and business to strengthen their capacity to address the risk of forced labour and human trafficking in their own operations and in global supply chains. (2015 revised edition)

Fact sheet

Labour Migration Highlights No. 6

Partnerships for youth employment in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) (Midterm Evaluation Summary)

Project: RER/12/01/LUK - Evaluation Consultant: Svetlana Bronuyk

ASEAN Small Business Competitiveness Programme (SBC) - Tourism (Project fact sheet)

This project targets self-employed operators of microenterprises in the informal sector, especially those in marginalized communities. By providing MSMEs with Small Business Competitiveness training (SBC), this project aims to help them address the...

Project for the Livelihood Restoration, Protection and Sustainable Empowerment of Vulnerable Peasant Communities in Sindh Province (Project...

The project fact sheet outlines the objectives, outcomes, major activities and other related information of One UN project ‘Livelihood Restoration, Protection and Sustainable Empowerment of Vulnerable Peasant Communities in the Sindh Province’....

The Syrian refugee crisis: the ILO's response and proposals

Regional Model Competency Standards: Construction

These Regional Model Competency Standards for Construction have been developed by the ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. They constitute a set of benchmarks that define the skills, knowledge and attributes required to perform a work role....

Labourers' survey, April 2015

The survey aims to gain insight into the benefits R4D labourers have derived from their employment with contractors carrying out R4D works. Benefits have been measured in terms of wages earned, the utilization of those wages and the impact on...

Maintaining the Professionalization of Teaching in Higher Education: From Entry into the Profession to Lifelong Professional Development

Background paper for discussion at the 12th Session of the CEART (Paris, 20–24 April 2015)

Background note

Background note - ILO Knowledge sharing and strategic planning workshop for the implementation of mutual recognition of skills, 29 April 2015