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ILO Brief

Understanding informality and expanding social security coverage in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: A quantitative study of the labour...

This ILO Brief is part of a quantitative research of the labour force and enterprise landscape in Lao People’s Democratic Republic to better understand the nature of informality and design tailored social security policies. The research received...

ADWA'

Towards More Job-Rich Growth: The Case of Tunisia

This policy note is part of a series of three policy notes on Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt that the ADWA’ Project and the Economic Research Forum (ERF) have jointly developed building on the findings of the 2nd Report on Jobs and Growth with a view to...

ADWA'

Toward More Job-Rich Growth: The Case of Egypt

This policy note is part of a series of three policy notes on Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt that the ADWA’ Project and the Economic Research Forum (ERF) have jointly developed building on the findings of the 2nd Report on Jobs and Growth with a view to...

Social Protection Training of Trainers Toolkit for the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

ILO has developed the Social Protection Training Toolkit to equip future trainers to facilitate trainings for provincial and local stakeholders. This Toolkit is designed for the following key target audiences: government officials and staff at both...

Domestic workers

Employer practices and perceptions on paid domestic work: Recruitment, employment relationships, and social protection

This study report is an important contribution towards understanding employers’ perceptions, rationale and bases that underlie how employers in urban India engage, value, and perceive domestic work.

Social security

Case studies on digital transformation of social security administration and services

This report is part of series of country and case study analysis developed as a part of the Study on the digital transformation of social insurance administration and services to ensure universal social security coverage in the People’s Republic of...

Policy Brief

Child labour and social protection in Nepal

This policy brief looks at the extent to which social protection is supporting the reduction and prevention of child labour in Nepal and provides recommendations on how to further leverage the national social protection system to better protect...

Review of national policy, legislative and regulatory frameworks, and practice in Kenya

This report aims to provide an understanding of the current policy, legislative and regulatory frameworks and practice in Kenya in relation to the access of refugees to the labour markets, employment, livelihood and training opportunities, including...

Policy brief

Access of refugees to the labour market in Sudan: Review of national policy, legislative and regulatory frameworks, and practice

Social Protection

Administrative barriers, capacity constraints and solutions for the inclusion of agricultural workers in social insurance schemes in the...

ILO Brief

Asia–Pacific Sectoral Labour Market Profile: Information technology and other information services

This brief is published as a companion piece to the ILO Asia–Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2022: Rethinking sectoral strategies for a human-centred future of work.

ILO Brief

Asia–Pacific Sectoral Labour Market Profile: Health and social work

This brief is published as a companion piece to the ILO Asia–Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2022: Rethinking sectoral strategies for a human-centred future of work.

ILO Working paper 85

Ride-hailing versus traditional taxi services: The experiences of taxi drivers in Lebanon

This paper provides insights into the working conditions of platform-based taxi drivers, and engages critically with the development of taxi platforms in Lebanon and shows its dependence on venture capital funds, the “non‑uberized” economy, the...

Executive summary

Review of national policy, legislative and regulatory frameworks, and practice in Egypt

A baseline study for Egypt in the area of relevant policy, legislative and regulatory frameworks and current practices in terms of implementation and in relation to the access of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons to the labour markets,...

ILO Working paper 82

Long-term care in the context of population ageing: a rights-based approach to universal coverage

With the acceleration of population ageing, the achieving of healthy ageing is becoming a global imperative and social protection policies and social security systems have an important role to play in this endeavour.

Social protection expenditure review, Barbados

The Social Protection Expenditure Review (SPER) represents an opportunity to generate evidence and policy discussions based on the financial and economic performance of the different components of the Barbadian’s social protection sector. As such,...

Employment Working Group

The Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions - Presentation

This presentation gives an update on the Global Accelerator, an initiative launched by the UN Secretary General and led by the ILO.

Social protection

Assessment of social security coverage of workers in diverse forms of employment and in platform employment in China

Country strategy

Decent work Country Programme: Bangladesh 2022–26

The Decent Work Country Programme sets out ILO’s programme priorities for Bangladesh for the period 2022–26.