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

Crafting Kuza: Towards a systemic approach to job creation for youth in Mombasa

Witnessing progress in youth employment in the micro-distribution and retail sectors of Mombasa, Kenya

SCORE Indonesia Case Study: SCORE Training supports growth of a female run business

How SCORE helped Maria Satiautri, Founder & CEO of SPA Factory Bali, to enhance the effectiveness of her organisation and lay the ground stones for future success

Rebuilding Haiti: Debris Management, Reconstruction and Employment Promotion after the 2010 Earthquake

The devastating earthquake of 12 January 2010 in Haiti affected more than 3 million people. Up to 160,000 people lost their lives in the earthquake, which measured a disastrous 7.0 on the Richter scale, destroying parts of the Haitian capital...

Women’s Entrepreneurship Development

The ILO approach to Women’s Entrepreneurship Development - Sustainable Enterprises

Crafting Kuza: Towards a systemic approach to job creation for youth in Mombasa

From Value Chain to Market Systems Analysis?

Executive Summary: An internal review of the systemic quality of ILO value chain analysis reports

Action research for improving working conditions in Peru's wood-furniture sector: Scoping study

Sector selection - Afghanistan

Selecting the road to more and better jobs

The importance of cotton, grapes, poultry, sheep, goats, almonds and dairy value chains to improve incomes and job creation in Afghanistan.

Value chain analysis and competitiveness strategy: Marine Capture Fisheries

Myeik and Yangon, Myanmar

Value chain analysis and competitiveness strategy: Freshwater Capture Fisheries

Pyapon, Myanmar

BDS sector: Business Opportunities and Support Services (BOSS) Project - Intervention report

This report is one in a series of intervention reports, with a focus on business development services (BDS) delivered in collaboration with the ILOs key counterpart, the Institute for Business Support (IADE).

SCORE Indonesia Case Study: SCORE Training helps five companies win national productivity awards

Five SCORE trained enterprises were honoured to receive 2015 PARAMAKARYA awards from President Joko Widodo at a ceremony in the Presidential Palace in Jakarta

Working paper

Employment, wages and working conditions in Asia's garment sector: Finding new drivers of competitiveness

This paper presents regional trends and national estimates of exports, employment, wages, productivity and working time in the garment, textile and footwear industries in developing Asia and the Pacific.

Analysis of the tourism market system in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico - in Spanish

Exploring the tourism market system to strengthen SMEs competitiveness in the Chiapas region of Mexico

Analysis of the tourism market system in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico

Exploring the tourism market system to strengthen SMEs competitiveness in the Chiapas region of Mexico

Guidelines for Value Chain Selection: Integrating economic, environmental, social and institutional criteria

Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) Programme - Phase II

Provides an overview of SCORE in India.

Microfinance support programme in Viet Nam: Public-Private Partnership

Microfinance has played an important role in national, provincial and local efforts to reduce poverty over this period with over 300,000 regular clients of microfinance institutions. However, access to relevant and sustainable microfinance services...

Preventing HIV in Ethiopia: The MULU Worksites Project: Public-Private Partnership

The MULU Worksites project is a USAID/PEPFAR-funded project managed by World Learning Ethiopia in partnership with FHI 360, the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), and the International Labour Organization (ILO). The project seeks to implement...

Fact sheet

Improving working conditions and promoting competitiveness in global supply chains: The ILO/IFC Better Work Programme: Public-Private...

Better Work is an innovative partnership between the International Labour Organization, the International Finance Corporation, and as at December 2013, 22 buyer partners and 827 factories employing 966,762 women and men. The programme plays a...