All publications: productivity

Illustrated guidelines for gender-responsive employment intensive investment programmes

This guide is the outcome of a study carried out on gender and public works, and has been developed using evidence from 43 EIIPs implemented in 27 countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America between 1995 and 2013.

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...

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

Women’s Entrepreneurship Development

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

The role of employment service providers: Guide to anticipating and matching skills and jobs, Vol. 4

This guide is a part of the European Training Foundation (ETF), ILO and Cedefop series of guides on skills anticipation and matching.

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.

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

The employment dimension of infrastructure investments: A guide for employment impact assessment

Employment Working Paper No. 178

The great employment transformation in China

EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 195

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

Provides an overview of SCORE in India.

Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 61

Non-standard work and workers: Organizational implications

Making globalization socially sustainable: Public-Private Partnership

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Research Foundation, the International Labour Office (ILO), and the World Trade Organization (WTO) established collaboration to bring together the world's leading academic experts on globalization. They ...

Enhancing Zambian SMEs' competitiveness and access to finance: Public-Private Partnership

The African Management Services Company (AMSCO) helps African companies to become globally competitive, profitable and sustainable – it provides selected private companies and commercially operated public enterprises with professional management and...

Employment promotion following the earthquake in Mianzhu, Sichuan Province of China: Public-Private Partnership

In May 2008, an earthquake registering 8.0 on the Richter scale struck the Sichuan province in China. Official statistics state that over 45 million people were affected, including 69,163 deaths. Approximately 6.5 million homes were destroyed and...

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...

Entrepreneurship education: Know About Business in Jordan: Public-Private Partnership

The ILO’s Know About Business (KAB) training programme has contributed to the creation of an enterprise culture in many countries and societies. It promotes awareness among young people of the opportunities and challenges of entrepreneurship and...

Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprise (SCORE): Public-Private Partnership

Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) is a practical training and in-factory counselling programme that improves productivity and working conditions in SMEs. The product demonstrates best international practice in the...

Empowering unions and strengthening the Viet Nam General Confederation of Labour in the Better Work Programme: Public-Private Partnership

The partnership is supporting workers’ organizations within Better Work – a multi-country innovative partnership between the ILO and the International Finance Corporation aimed at improving compliance with national labour law and core labour...

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...