All publications: responsible business conduct

Alliance against Human Trafficking for Labour Exploitation: Public-Private Partnership

Facing the growing challenge of human trafficking for labour exploitation in Germany, a multi-stakeholder alliance was established. Through the implementation of state-specific structures (in the Länder) and well-organized networks, the alliance...

Women's Entrepreneurship Development (WED) in South Africa - The Abafazi Incubator Project: Public-Private Partnership

Well designed partnerships are essential to developing women's entrepreneurship through their unique ability to mobilize funds, ensure the sustainability and use of ILO tools and approaches, and generate new opportunities to collaborate.

Women's Entrepreneurship Development in Yemen: Public-Private Partnership

The Small and Medium Enterprise Promotion Service (SMEPS), Yemen’s national agency promoting small and micro-enterprises and a subsidiary of the Social Fund for Development, recently embarked on an initiative to economically empower women and to...

ILO Global Business and Disability Network: Public-Private Partnership

The ILO Global Business and Disability Network is a business-led, member-based initiative that fosters the development of a workplace culture that is respectful and inclusive, promoting the hiring, retention and professional development of people...

Demographic change and private sector disability management in Australia, Canada, China and Switzerland - A comparative study:...

The International Labour Organization (ILO) sees disability management (DM) as crucial to supporting workers whose employment is threatened by illness or accident and bringing people back to work. However, despite the widespread adoption of DM,...

Strategic HIV/AIDS Response in Enterprises (SHARE): Public-Private Partnership

The ILO’s Strategic HIV/AIDS Response in Enterprises (SHARE) taps into the resources of the public and private sectors for the benefit of workers, their families, and enterprises – not to mention national economies. SHARE’s principal objectives are...

Technical cooperation activities to Combat Child Labour in Portuguese Speaking Countries in Africa, Brazil and Timor-Leste (CPLP):...

In the framework of this programme, the Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD) agreed with ILO Lisbon to fund technical cooperation activities to combat child labour in CPLP countries in 2010. Its contribution was used to cofinance other IPEC-related...

Child Labour Platform (CLP) and the Global Compact: Public-Private Partnership

The Child Labour Platform (CLP) is a thematic member-based workstream of the UN Global Compact’s Labour Working Group, open to companies committed to contributing to the effective elimination of child labour. It is also open to UN agencies, trade...

Supporting the elimination of child labour in Malawi agriculture: Public-Private Partnership

Following its commitment to ILO values demonstrated by ratification of various ILO Conventions, the Government of Malawi organised its first ever National Conference on Child Labour in Agriculture on 5-6 September 2012. The Conference was organized...

Partnership to combat Child Labour in the chocolate and cocoa industry: Public-Private Partnership

This partnership in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire between the ILO and a number of companies in the chocolate and confectionery industry seeks to eliminate child labour and to ensure workforce continuity in cocoa growing farms by younger generations.

A protective environment for children in Côte d'Ivoire cocoa-growing communities: Public-Private Partnership

Mars Inc. has teamed up with a range of partners in Côte d’Ivoire to help farmers produce better crops and increase their incomes; to help communities improve their living standards; and to fight child labour by making sure children go to school and...

Reducing the worst forms of child labour in tobacco-growing communities in Brazil, Malawi and Zambia: Public-Private Partnership

The ILO and Japan Tobacco International (JTI) have forged a partnership to achieve greater impact and have, together, established the Achieving Reduction of Child Labour in Supporting of Education (ARISE) programme. By addressing the identified...

Eliminating Child Labour and promoting Decent Work in the Stora Enso value chain: Public-Private Partnership

Stora Enso (SE) is a leading paper, biomaterials, wood products and packaging company with its head offices in Finland and Sweden. Bulleh Shah Packaging (BSP) is its joint venture and agricultural and recycling product supplier. To strengthen its...

Youth-to-Youth Fund - Improving work opportunities for young people in the Mano River Union: Public-Private Partnership

Aimed at youth-led organizations in Guinea, the ILO Youth Employment Network, in collaboration with UNIDO, FCP, and the World Bank, launched a competitive grant scheme. The call was for innovative small-scale youth employment projects, and supported...

Child Labour Platform: Good Practice Notes - with recommendations for companies

These good practices include examples of approaches that multiple companies in the textile and garments, cocoa, tourism and/or mining sectors have adopted to prevent and remediate child labour. The good practices were identified on the basis of...

Maternity Protection in SMEs: An international review [Summary]

This report reviews the key international literature on the outcomes of maternity protection in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It also addresses the questions of how, to what extent and under what conditions maternity protection in SMEs...

Maternity Protection in SMEs: An international review

This report reviews the key international literature on the outcomes of maternity protection in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It also addresses the questions of how, to what extent and under what conditions maternity protection in SMEs...

Strengthening the world of work response to HIV and AIDS: Public-Private Partnership

The ILO is the lead UN agency for HIV and AIDS policies and programmes in the world of work and private sector mobilization. The ILO programme on HIV and AIDS and the World of Work plays a key role in the global HIV responses through workplaces.

Business as unusual: Making workplaces inclusive of people with disabilities

Inclusion of Youth with Disabilities: The Business Case