All resources: Zimbabwe

Employers’ activities in the ILO/Danida Programme(Final Evaluation Summary)

Project INT/01/27/DAN

Did financial sector reform result in increased savings and lending for the SMEs and the poor

IFLIP (The Impact of Financial Sector Liberalization on the Poor) Research Paper 03-7

Helping small businesses prevent substance abuse

Provides background information and a framework for the development and implementation of a prevention-oriented approach to workplace substance abuse.

Rapid assessment

HIV/AIDS and child labour in Zimbabwe: A rapid assessment (Paper 02)

ILO Southern Africa Multidisciplinary Advisory Team, Harare

Gender Equality in Employment: The Legal Framework in the case of Zimbabwe

The report examines the content of various pieces of legislation as they address issues of prohibition of gender discrimination; protective laws for women; sexual harassment; maternity protection as well as discrimination on the basis of HIV/AIDS....

ILO Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa, Harare

Wages Through Booms and Recessions - A Case Study of Zimbabwe

The paper argues that a wage policy must be pillared on decentralised, coordinated and synchronised collective bargaining, in private and public sectors alike. In the public sector, there is no collective bargaining at the moment and that is why...

ILO Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa, Harare

Female Itinerant Maize Traders in Southern Mozambique: A study of Higher-end Informal Sector Activity and its Potential for Poverty...

The paper is one of the background documents prepared in the context of the Study on the Feminisation of Poverty in Mozambique that is being executed by the International Labour Organization’s Southern Africa Multidisciplinary Advisory Team...

ILO Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa, Harare

Microfinance in Mozambique - Are Donors Promoting Regional Feminisation of Poverty

The paper is one of the background documents prepared in the context of the Study on the Feminisation of Poverty in Mozambique that is being executed by the International Labour Organization’s Southern Africa Multidisciplinary Advisory Team...

Jobs, gender and small enterprises in Africa and Asia : lessons drawn from Bangladesh, the Philippines, Tunisia and Zimbabwe

SEED Working Paper No. 18 - Series on women’s entrepreneurship development and gender in enterprises (WEDGE)

ILO Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa, Harare

Coping with Extreme Poverty through Traditional Skills: The Case of Xirungu Basket Makers of Mozambique

Here was a clear case of feminisation of poverty suffered by a very vulnerable group of Mozambican society – old single women – who were becoming poorer as the demand for their products diminishes and as the safety net features of their society...

Towards creating an enabling environment for labour-based contracting in Zimbabwe

Workshop report: local level planning and the identification of access interventions

ILO Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa, Harare

The Impact of Globalization on Local Communities: A Case Study of the Cut-Flower Industry in Zimbabwe

This study of how Zimbabwe has taken advantage of the opportunity afforded by export diversification examines the positive and negative aspects of flower-growing. While documenting cut-flower exports as an example of a sector that copes successfully...

ILO Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa, Harare

Enclavity and Constrained Labour Absorptive Capacity in Southern African Economies

The paper is concerned with the twin questions of why it is that a majority of the labour force in African countries continues to be unemployed or underemployed, and why it is that the response of employment to increases in gross domestic product...

ILO Southern Africam Multidisciplinary Advisory Team, Harare

Social Security Schemes in Southern Africa: An Overview and Proposals for Future Development

This paper provides information and ideas to support current policy discussions of social security in Southern Africa. Its intended audience is government officials, scheme administrators, and leaders in the labour movement and business community...

ILO Southern Africam Multidisciplinary Advisory Team, Harare

Improving Labour Market Information in Southern Africa

The objective of this paper is to provide concepts and definitions that assist countries in establishing information systems that meet the demand for information from policymakers as well as other users.

The impact of multinational enterprises on employment, training and regional development in Namibia and Zimbabwe: A preliminary assessment

Multinational Enterprises Programme Working Paper No. 84

ILO Southern Africam Multidisciplinary Advisory Team, Harare

Agriculture, Employment and Poverty in Malawi

The objective of this paper is to review the evolution of agriculture in Malawi in a historical perspective and consider policy measures that have recently been effected, or options that are available to promote growth and equity in the rural sector.

ILO Southern Africam Multidisciplinary Advisory Team, Harare

Occupational Health and Safety in Southern Africa: Trends and Policy Issues

This paper outlines the major features of the current situation on occupational health and safety in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Region and the issues that it raises for policy making. It describes major production changes in...

Zimbabwe National Child Labour Survey Report 1999

This report shows the results of a Child Labour Survey carried out in Sept. 1999 in Zimbabwe. Its objective was to determine the nature & extent of child labour 6 working conditions & effects on health, education & normal dev. of children 5-17 years...