All publications: microenterprises + small enterprises + informal enterprises + value chains

Enterprise Formalization: Tailored registration, tax and social security requirements for MSEs

Enterprise Formalization: Simplifying and facilitating business start-up and compliance

Guide

Value Chain Development for Decent Work

A systems approach to creating more and better jobs - 3rd edition

Enterprise Formalization: An Introduction

Information note and agenda: Technology and the Transition from Informal to Formal Economy

The ILO and UN-ESCAP are leading a research project and South-South learning exchange on the topic of technology as a tool to facilitate the transition from informal to formal employment. Policy innovations (simplified to ”e-formality”) will be...

Brief

Market Systems Development and the Environment

A Strategic and Operational Guidance Note

Brief

All work and no play

Using a systemic lens to determine the economic root causes to child labour

Governance and Tripartism Department

Multilateral approaches to global supply chains

This paper is an update of the 2016 International Labour Organization (ILO) Working Paper Multilateral Approaches to Global Supply Chains. The original paper served as an input for the 2016 International Labour Conference discussion on decent work...

SCORE Training - Promoting the capacity of suppliers in global supply chains

Executive summary - Impact of ILO SCORE Training on management practices, working conditions and business results in Peruvian SMEs

Brief

Gendered impacts of COVID-19 on the garment sector

This brief, co-authored by the ILO and Better Work, aims to raise awareness of the gendered reality of COVID-19 and to outline some of the ways in which the pandemic impacts women and men workers in the garment sector in the short, medium and long...

COVID-19 in Iraq: Private Sector Impacts

This factsheet presents findings from two assessments on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on households and enterprises in Iraq carried out in June and July of 2020, one-a Panel Study of Small and Medium Enterprises- by IOM, FAO and ITC, and a...

Brief

Getting Beyond Tier 1

Using a systems approach to improve working conditions in global supply chains

Improved business development services for MSMEs in Iraqi Kurdistan

The project, implemented by the ILO and funded by the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) aims to promote decent work opportunities in micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

Impact of ILO SCORE Training on management practices, working conditions and business results in Peruvian SMEs

ILO Working Paper 9

Applying labour law to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises: A comparative study of 16 countries

This study considers the ways in which different countries regulate labour rights for MSME workers, its main purpose being to improve understanding of current trends and developments in this area. The 16 countries covered by the study are Brazil,...

For Journalists: An introduction to the Responsible Supply Chains in Asia (Myanmar) programme

This document contains a brief summary of key elements of the RSCA programme

For Journalists: an introduction to the Responsible Supply Chains in Asia (Viet Nam) programme

A brief summary of the key elements of the programme

Responsible Supply Chains in Asia

For Journalists: An introduction to the Responsible Supply Chains in Asia (China) Programme

This document is briefing summary of the key elements of the RSCA programme

For Journalists: An introduction to the Responsible Supply Chains in Asia (Philippines) programme

This document contains a brief summary of the key features of the RSCA programme