All publications: productivity

Reducing costs

This guide helps factory managers reduce costs to ease financial liquidity and cashflow pressures on their factory operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is part of the 'Building resilience during and after the COVID-19 pandemic' series.

Finding alternative sources of income

This guide helps factory managers identify new revenue streams to ensure that the factory can survive the COVID-19 pandemic and become more resilient over time. It is part of the 'Building resilience during and after the COVID-19 pandemic' series.

Covid-19 resilience

Organizing the factory for safer and more efficient operations

This guide aims to assist factory managers re-organize their factories in order to provide better safety measures and improve their operational efficiency during and after the COVID-19 outbreak. It is part of the 'Building resilience during and...

Going online: Establishing an online presence

This guide helps factory managers establish an online presence in order to promote their factory and to facilitate communication with buyers. It is part of the 'Building resilience during and after the COVID-19 pandemic' series.

Communicating with your workers

This guide helps factory managers establish and maintain good internal communications for a more responsive and productive factory environment during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. It is part of the 'Building resilience during and after the...

Managing your cash flow

This guide helps factory managers keep track of their cash flow to better navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. It is part of the 'Building resilience during and after the COVID-19 pandemic' series.

Introduction to guides for garment factories to build resilience during and after COVID-19

The ILO provides a series of six action-oriented guides for garment factories in Asia to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and to build business resilience. This fact sheet provides an introduction to the series.

Stay safe and resilient

OSH and Business Continuity under the COVID – 19 pandemic

Implementation partner for ILO SCORE Training in West Java - The Catholic Parahyangan University

Guide

Market Systems Analysis for Decent Work: A User-friendly Guide

The end-to-end process of a market systems analysis made simple

Future of work

Voluntary Labour Compliance Assessment for Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association

This tool is a checklist of compliance points with Myanmar labour laws and some elements of the International Labour Standards. The VLCA will provide a thorough, yet non-intrusive assessment of all the aspects related to labour compliance ranging...

Skills

All Aboard! On-Boarding Training Package for Workers in Myanmar Garment Factories.

All Aboard is an induction tool kit for new garment industry workers. It will help Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association (MGMA) and its members to set up an induction or on-boarding programme at the factory level

Future of work

Automation and Digitization in the Myanmar garment sector. A review of the current situation and implications for market strategies,...

This study reviews the current situation and implications for market strategies, investment and skills policies associated with increased automation and technological changes. It recognizes the imperative to act with the goal of shaping a fair,...

Skills

Skilled Workers Matter. The business case for addressing absenteeism and turnover in Myanmar's garment sector.

A study on absenteeism in the Myanmar garment industry is a contribution to the understanding of one of the important impediments to industry’s steady and continued growth: the high absenteeism and turnover rate of its workforce. Exploring the root...

HoCo Hospitality Coaching

Raising quality & standards in local tourism

Brief

A systemic approach to creating more and better jobs

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...

National Rural Employment Strategy in Lao PDR towards increasing opportunities for decent and productive employment in rural areas

At the request of the Government of Lao PDR, and aligning with the United Nations Development Action Framework (UNDAF) for Lao PDR (2012 – 2016) and the ILO Decent Work Country Programme for Lao PDR (2011 – 2016), the ILO has been working to develop...

Improving SMEs’ Environmental Performance

Improving SMEs’ Environmental Performance: Lessons Learned From the TPSA Project Initiative

Success Stories from Enterprises in Ghana

Case studies from the ILO Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) project