All resources: Sri Lanka

Social dialogue at enterprise level: successful experiences

The study introduces concepts of social dialogue at the workplace, enumerates enabling condidions for social dialogue to work effectively and demonstrates positive features of social dialogue with empirical studies.

Impact of childrens work on school attendance and performance: a review of school survey evidence from five countries

The paper presents a descriptive overview of the association between work involvement and schooling for five countries. It also examines causal links between work involvement and school by using regression analyses. The countries included in the...

ILO/Swiss Interregional Project on Addressing Labour Issues Through National Cleaner Production Centres (Mid-term Evaluation Summary)

Project INT/02/42/SWI

Step by step: Examples of how countries determine hazardous child labour

This brochure is the first in a series describing how different countries have undertaken this process. New examples will be added as they come available. These examples are not to be seen as models or "best practice", but simply demonstrate a range...

School-to-work transition of youth in Sri Lanka

Employment Strategy Paper 2004/19

Migrant workers and human rights: Out-migration from South Asia

This publication is in line with ILO mandate in support of migrant workers. The studies covering five countries in South Asia - Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka were undertaken from August to November 2003. It presents an overview of...

Commercially sustainable BDS to poor customers - The case of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Training Needs Assessment for Rural Roads Construction and Maintenance

A report prepared jointly by: Sri Lanka Institute of Local Governance & The International Labour Organization, In collaboration with The Intermediate Technology Development Group

Partnerships for childcare

Training and employment of people with disabilities: Sri Lanka 2003

AbilityAsia Country Study Series by Padmani Mendis.

Changing an Organizational Culture through Social Dialogue: Experience at Sri Lanka Telecom

Investigating the Worst Forms of Child Labour No. 26

Sri Lanka: Child domestic labour - A rapid assessment

Child domestic labour is one of the forms of child labour that is found in many developing countries including Sri Lanka. With the recognition of child labour as a major human and social problem, many researchers have attempted to explore the nature...

Final evaluation summary

Action against child labour through education and training

Project INT/98/10/NOR

The survival strategies of Sinhala female-heads in conflict-affected eastern Sri Lanka

Crisis Response and Reconstruction Working Paper No. 11

Female-headship in Eastern Sri Lanka : a comparative study of ethnic communities in the context of conflict

Crisis Response and Reconstruction Working Paper No. 10

Employment of people with disabilities : the impact of legislation (Asia and the Pacific) : Sri Lanka country profile

Prepared by the ILO InFocus Programme on Skills, Knowledge and Employability in the framework of a project funded by Development Cooperation Ireland (DCI).

Supplier diagnosis of the market for Business Development Services in Sri Lanka

Results of a nation-wide survey carrie out by the Ministry of Enterprise Development with technical and financial support from ILO and GTZ

Employment of people with disabilities : the impact of legislation (Asia and the Pacific)

Report of a Project Consultation Bangkok, 17 January 2003

Investigating the Worst Forms of Child Labour No. 18

Sri Lanka: Commercial sexual exploitation of children - A rapid assessment (IWFCL No. 18)

Migrant workers

Sri Lanka: Good practices to prevent women migrant workers from going into exploitative forms of labour

Focuses on the situation of the women migrant workers in their families, workplaces, communities and societies in sending and receiving countries and also on the initiatives, policies and programmes, “good” and “bad” practices implemented by...