All resources: Sri Lanka

Skills development for economic empowerment and the creation of livelihoods after the Tsunami (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project SRL/05/08/BEL - Evaluation Team: K.A.L. Premaratne, Mark Anthony Warnakula and Prof. K. Thadchanamoorthy

National Framework Proposal on Reintegration of Ex-Combatants into Civilian Life in Sri Lanka

South and South-East Asia Conference on Local Economic Development

Knowledge sharing and the way forward - Conference Report - 16/17 June 2009

National Labour Migration Policy for Sri Lanka Launched

The ILO International Migration Branch, Geneva, and the ILO Office for Sri Lanka, Colombo, provided technical support to the tripartite plus consultative process for the formulation of the National Labour Migration Policy for Sri Lanka. The Policy...

ILO 90: The International Labour Organization and Sri Lanka

Highlights a number of outstanding landmarks in the history of the ILO and its relationship with Sri Lanka.

Fish and fairs support economic development in Sri Lanka

By Roel Hakemulder, Advisor, Enter-Growth Project, Sri Lanka. The ornamental fish breeders of Polonnaruwa District in Sri Lanka had a problem--not enough water. In 2007, with support from the ILO’s Sida-funded Enterprise for Pro-poor Growth project...

National Labour Migration Policy for Sri Lanka English

Speech on the ILO's 90th anniversary celebrations

By Ms Sachiko Yamamoto, Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific and Assistant Director-General, ILO on 28 April, in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Social dialogue

National framework on social dialogue (In English, Sinhala and Tamil)

As a part of the ILO’s 90th anniversary celebrations, on 24 April 2009, the ILO was instrumental in developing and launching, through tripartite consultations, a National Framework on Social Dialogue, for employers and employees.

Maid in Lebanon

Driven by extreme poverty in their home countries, thousands of female migrant workers go each year to the Arab States in order to earn enough money to support their families. What they find there is sometimes not what they expected. A film directed...

Micro and small enterprise development for pro-poor growth in Sri Lanka (ENTER-GROWTH) (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project SRL/05/03/SID - Evaluation Team: Sara Barlow, Jinendra Kothalawala, and Kees Van Der Ree

ILO & Sri Lanka

ILO celebrates 90 years working for social justice: International Labour Organization and Sri Lanka

This publication highlights a number of outstanding landmarks in the history of the ILO and its relationship with Sri Lanka.

ILO Sri Lanka Youth Employment Project (ILO/Japan)

The project works to alleviate poverty, unemployment and underemployment among rural young people in Sri Lanka by helping them find work, vocational and entrepreneurship training. It also focuses on improving employment and recruitment services and...

Support to sustainable rural infrastructure development services for poverty reduction in the Asia Pacific Region - ASIST AP (Final...

Project RAS/04/12/SID - Evaluation consultant: Ulf Brudefors

Sri Lanka (The Democratic Socialist Republic of)

Local Resourcebased Strategy

Local Economic Development and Employment Intensive Investments

Informal employment in Sri Lanka: Nature, probability of employment, and determinants of wages

A discussion paper on informal employment situation and wages in Sri Lanka.

Palama - A bridge to a different way of working

Case Study of the Palama Forum Theatre Project for Enterprise Culture Sri Lanka, 2005-2008

Enterprise for Pro-Poor Growth Project: Impact Assessment on the Enterprise Culture Component (Final Report)

National labour migration policy for Sri Lanka

The policy articulates the State’s commitment to ensuring a labour migration process that adheres to principles of good governance and rights and responsibilities enshrined in international instruments to advance opportunities for all men and women...