All publications: economic reconstruction + armed conflict + natural disasters + economic recovery + peace

The ‘Disemployment’ Impact of the 2014 Conflict in Gaza: An ILO Damage Assessment and Recovery Strategy

This report focuses on the employment situation before the Israeli bombardments and attempts to quantify the extent of labour displacement – referred to here as disemployment.

Livelihood restoration and protection and sustainable empowerment of vulnerable peasant communities in Sindh Province - (Midterm External...

Project PAK/13/01/HSF Evaluation consultant: Edgar Guardian // Jointly conducted by: Food and Agriculture Organization, International Labour Organization and UN Women

Emergency employment and sustainable livelihoods

Interlocking compressed earth blocks (ICEB) production in Northern Cebu (emergency employment and sustainable livelihoods after super...

Turning a crisis into an opportunity: alternative livelihood is a safety net to build resilience towards a future calamity.

Skills acquisition for economic rehabilitation

Skills acquisition: A tool for economic rehabilitation in Negros Occidental

Typhoon-affected residents were hired to build houses and earn wages to provide for their families' daily needs.

One barangay (village) one product

One barangay (village) one product: Squid rings in Sagay City, Negros Occidental

The onslaught of Super Typhoon Haiyan in Negros Occidental has pushed the vulnerable population further into poverty. But the city had survived with its product of squid rings.

ILO Market Opportunity Mapping in Somalia

This report provides an evidence-based strategy for increasing employment opportunities and skills training for youths, women and IDPs in Baidoa and Beletweyne districts in Somalia.

Post calamity response

A practical guide for post-calamity response: The Philippine experience

In a country frequently ravaged by typhoons and other natural calamities, vulnerable communities are often left crippled after the destruction, with only an ounce of hope to get through another day. More often, it is a struggle to help people get...

Employment creation

Typhoon Bopha: Local resource-based employment generation, climate change impact mitigation and livelihood recovery interventions in Davao...

Responding to natural or man-made disasters is a central part of livelihood development in many parts of the world. Effective crisis response is dependent on a number of resource and capacity related issues – essentially related to the ability of...

Typhoon Bopha Philppines: Joint response to post-calamity interventions, local resource based employment generation and livelihood recovery...

Project: PHI/13/03/AUS - Evaluation Consultant: Carlos Rodriguez-Ariza

Employment, livelihood & social protection

Disasters destroy or cause harm to people’s livelihoods. Disasters deprive people of their jobs, or reduce their ability to raise income, and thus diminish (permanently or temporarily) their capacity to make a living. Emergency relief helps...

Support to the Limpopo Department of Public Works in the implementation of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) Limpopo Province - ...

Project SAF/04/54/SAF Evaluation consultant: Stanley M. Karuga

Support to the National Department of Public Works on the implementation of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) Limpopo Province - ...

Project SAF/04/54/SAF Evaluation consultant: Stanley M. Karuga

Potentional measures that can be taken to use Public Procurement to stimualte the Social Economy in South Africa.

This research aims to improve the understanding of the South African legal and policy context of the social economy and thereby increase legal and policy effectiveness in promoting the sector.

Factsheet: ILO in fragile situations

Working in partnership with countries in fragile situations is a priority for the ILO. The significance of Decent Work for peacebuilding and recovery has been highlighted through recent initiatives such as the conclusion of the New Deal for...

Research Brief - Lessons from the implementation of training and retraining programmes in response to the Great Recession

Rural community rehabilitation through emergency public works in response to the deadly flash-flood damage in the Solomon Islands

The Cash for Work pilot programme provided wages and tools to support target communities to clean-up and repair of public areas and infrastructure (common gardens, halls and churches, schools, wells, drains and paths) that were damaged by the recent...

Haiti: Protecting children from child labour during the early recovery phase - (Final Evaluation Summary)

TC/Code Project: HAI/10/02/USA Consultants: Philip Boyle et Macimala Roy

Poverty reduction

Memorandum of agreement for tripartite agreement for poverty reduction in Zamboanga Peninsula

This agreement was entered into by and among Regional Offices of national government agencies and private institution.

Employment Promotion Project following the Earthquake in Mianzhu, Sichuan Province, China

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...

Rehabilitation of socio-economic infrastructure: capacity development for infrastructure maintenance and project management (Final...

Project: LIR/09/01/LIR - Evaluation Consultant Stanley Karuga