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

The impact of management training on small enterprises in developing countries: Lessons from Ghana, Tanzania, and Vietnam

The impact of management training on small enterprises in developing countries: Lessons from Ghana, Tanzania, and Vietnam

The SCORE Training Process

SCORE: Improving productivity, sustainability and job quality in SMEs

From Obligation to Opportunity

Scrutinizing the garment and textiles value chains to foster better working conditions in Vietnam and Indonesia

From Obligation to Opportunity

A market systems analysis of working conditions in Asia's garment export industry

Multinational Enterprises

The ILO MNE Declaration: What’s in it for Workers?

The ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles Concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (MNE Declaration) was negotiated and adopted by governments, employers and workers in 1977. It is the only ILO instrument that provides...

What Works In a Market-Oriented Strategy for SME Development - Evidence From Myanmar

Work Improvements in Small Enterprises

Global Manual for WISE - Work Improvements in Small Enterprises

The Global Manual for WISE is designed to assist employers and workers in small enterprises from the manufacturing sector in creating safe, healthy and productive workplaces.

Research note

Wages and working conditions in and out of global supply chains: A comparative empirical review

This literature review is intended to contribute to the debate on global supply chains by providing evidence on wages and working conditions in global supply chains (e.g. export-oriented sectors) compared to alternative employment options in the...

Improving conditions in tea plantations in Assam

Investigating the tea value chain to upgrade working conditions for communities in the Assam region of India

Improving conditions in tea plantations in Assam

In collaboration with Fairtrade Foundation and key industry stakeholders, the Lab undertook a market system analysis in Assam to understand the key working and living condition challenges on plantations and develop a set of recommendations to...

SCORE Phase III - Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises Programme

Provides an overview of SCORE in India.

Improving the livelihood and working conditions of the vulnerable workers – particularly women, in the Rural Agro-food economy through...

The ILO in partnership with UNIDO is implementing a One UN Joint pilot project, which aims at improving the livelihood and working conditions in the selected agro-food value chain in Gilgit Baltistan Province of Pakistan. The project- through a set...

Accelerating action to eliminate child labour, forced labour and modern slavery, with a particular focus on global supply chains

Follow-up of the IV Conference on the Sustainable Eradication of Child Labour, 14-16 November 2017, Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Entrepreneurship Development Interventions for Women Entrepreneurs

An update on what works

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

Responsible Winter Tourism in Kyrgyzstan

Examining the Winter Tourism value chain to generate productive employment in Kyrgyzstan

Responsible Winter Tourism in Kyrgyzstan

Feasibility and market system analysis

Market system analysis - Guyana

Towards high-value markets: finding export potential in the vegetable and fruit sector

Analysing vegetables and fruits value chains to uncover paths to export diversification in Guyana

Guyana on its way to high-value markets: finding export potential in the vegetable and fruit sector

What does it take to export to high-value markets? The Ministry of Business in Guyana identified that export diversification should be bolstered such that the economy is not so dependent on volatile commodity prices. This report fills a research...