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

Success Stories from Enterprises in Egypt

Case studies and success stories from Egyptian enterprises after joining the ILO's Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) programme.

Fact sheet

Egypt Fact Sheet: SCORE Pilot Programme

The SCORE pilot training programme began in Egypt in 2018, with a sector selection study that identified the chemical and engineering sectors as sectors with high growth and job creation potential and meet other criteria by SCORE globally. The ILO...

Brochure

SCORE Programme in Egypt

Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) is an ILO global programme that improves productivity and working conditions in small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

ILO Global Business Network on Forced Labour

Partnership information

Become a partner. End forced labour

ILO Global Business Network on Forced Labour

Membership information

Become a member. End forced labour.

ILO Global Business Network on Forced Labour

Overview brochure

Driving action, scale,and sustainability through collaboration.

A rough guide to entrepreneurship promotion in forced displacement contexts

Rapid Market Assessment – Bolivia

Two paths towards export and business formalization (in spanish)

A Rapid Market Assessment of the sectors of Andean Grains and tourism in Bolivia

Technical Report

Measuring child labour, forced labour and human trafficking in global supply chains: A global Input-Output approach

Report

Ending child labour, forced labour and human trafficking in global supply chains

World Trade Organization Public Forum 2019

Strengthening Support for Trade Through Decent Work

Formalization in Chile

This paper provides information on an integrated package of measures that have been implemented in Chile to foster the formalization of enterprises and the workers they employ. It also describes good practices in relation to public procurement,...

Research Department Working Paper n°52

Economic and social upgrading in the Philippines’ pineapple supply chain

Despite several decades of steady growth, Mindanao’s tropical agro-food industry and the pineapple supply chain more specifically are characterized by a relatively large proportion of workers being linked to small-scale production and low-skilled,...

Responsible Business: Key messages from International Instruments

Three instruments have become the key reference points for responsible business: The ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (ILO MNE Declaration), the OECD Guidelines for Multinational...

Report

Small Matters: Global evidence on the contribution to employment by the self-employed, micro-enterprises and SMEs

Drawing on a new ILO database, this report provides an up-to-date and realistic assessment of the global contribution of self-employment and micro- and small enterprises to employment – both in the formal and the informal economy.

Research Department Working Paper n°47

Decent work in global supply chains: An internal research review

This article provides an inventory of the research carried out by the ILO on decent work in GSCs between 2014 and 2019 and helps to identify the challenges and remaining gaps in terms of research.

International Labour Standards

Social Dialogue, Collective Bargaining and Responsible Business Conduct: Promoting the Strategic Use of the International Instruments for...

The aim of this report is to map and analyse the various International Instruments to promote social dialogue, collective bargaining and responsible business conduct to address the main challenges raised by the ILO Resolution concerning Decent Work...

ILO Decent Work interventions in global supply chains - A synthesis review on lessons learned; what works and why, 2010-2019

Fail, recalibrate, adapt, achieve: how Yapasa used the market systems approach to create opportunities for Zambia's rural youth

The enabling environment for sustainable enterprises in North Macedonia