All resources: Haiti
Haiti: Protecting children from child labour during the early recovery phase - (Final Evaluation Summary)
TC/Code Project: HAI/10/02/USA Consultants: Philip Boyle et Macimala Roy
Sexual harassment in garment factories: firm structure, organizational culture and incentive systems
Analyzing a micro-data set of worker demographics and workplace characteristics in Haitian, Jordanian and Indonesian apparel factories, we test four hypotheses concerning the determinants of reports of sexual harassment. These include the vertical...
Haiti: strategic partnership signed between ILO and MINUSTAH
Improving Working Conditions and Promoting Competitiveness in Global Supply Chains
The Better Work Programme is an innovative partnership between the ILO and the International Finance Corporation, and as at December 2013 included some 22 Buyer Partners and 827 factories employing 966,762 workers. The programme can play a...
Decent work in fragile states
Haiti: Entrepreneurial spirit rebuilds out of the rubble
Once a symbol of misfortune, the debris created by Haiti's earthquake on 12 January 2010 is now a symbol of hope. Haitian entrepreneurs, with ILO training, are recycling the debris and using it to rebuild their neighbourhoods. In fragile states that...
Case Brief #5: Fonkoze
Increasingly insurance is being seen as a way to protect low-income people against the worst effects of catastrophes, such as the storms, floods and earthquakes which are regular and devastating for poor Haitians. Yet a chasm exists between the...
Promotion of gender-sensitive labour migration policies in Costa Rica, Haiti, Nicaragua, Panama and the Dominican Republic (Midterm...
Project RLA/09/05/EEC - Evaluation Consultant: Javier Varela
Enhancing workers' access to labour rights and jobs in Haiti (Midterm Evaluation Summary)
Project HAI/08/01/USA - Evaluation consultant: Nexus Associates
Dominican Republic: Unions support Haitian migrant workers
Greening Haiti
Decades of environmental degradation have left Haiti on the brink, posing a serious threat to lives and livelihoods. Training programmes are helping Haitians move towards a greener, more sustainable economy.
From Haiti
Slavery in a free land
The use of children as domestic workers is pervasive throughout Haiti. Though culturally accepted for generations, a new campaign has been launched to combat what is one of the worst forms of child labour.
A dream made of bricks and mortar
Construction workers are in great demand in Haiti following the devastating earthquake in 2010. Skills, on the other hand, are in short supply.
Video interview
Social protection is essential for our future, says the Haitian Minister of Labour
Interview with Haitian Minister of Labour and Social Affairs recorded in June 2012. Mr Léon Ronsard St-Cyr, told ILO TV that his country has no choice but to invest in social protection as his country slowly recovers from the earthquake that...
OFID-Haiti
ILO Participation in the Haiti Reconstruction Fund Joint Programme (Mid Term Joint Evaluation Summary)
Project HAI/10/50/UND - Evaluation conducted by the Administrative Agent of the United Nations Development Group Haiti Reconstruction Fund (UNDG HRF)
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Making public-private partnerships work for better insurance coverage
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and has seen more than its share of both natural and man-made disasters. In a country like Haiti, microfinance not only helps to create jobs and income, but becomes a relief and survival...
ILO launches employer and trade union guides on the CARIFORUM-EC Economic Partnership Agreement
The ILO Office for the Caribbean, has published two user-friendly guides on the CARIFORUM-European Community (EC) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) for use by Caribbean employers and trade unionists.
Cooperation against Child Labour
Brazil, U.S. and ILO to expand fight against child labour in post-earthqake Haiti - first ILO North-South-South "triangular agreement"
Brazil and the United States have joined forces to expand the fight against child labour in Haiti, in the first “triangular agreement” on North-South-South cooperation to be signed under the auspices of the International Labour Organization (ILO).
Preparation of a Roadmap for the prevention and elimination of child labour and its worst forms. Concept note.
Public Private Partnerships for Decent Work
The ILO works with companies and foundations to tackle important global labour market issues; to support sustainable enterprises and entrepreneurs; to enhance value in supply chains; to promote social protection; and to resolve specific problems in...