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ILO Working Paper 171
The role of national social dialogue institutions in shaping investment policies
This paper examines how national social dialogue institutions can help align foreign direct investment with decent work and sustainable development. Drawing on eleven case studies, it highlights emerging practices, institutional challenges and...
Article
Latin America and the Caribbean face the challenge of expanding pension coverage
Latin America and the Caribbean face a double pressure: high levels of labour informality and rapid population ageing. Expanding pension coverage is no longer only a social policy aspiration, but an urgent necessity to protect older persons and...
Voices of Action - Child labour
In Peru, a mother’s decent job becomes her daughter’s path out of child labour
Guadalupe, a 15-year-old girl from Lima, managed to move away from child labour, a reality that still affects more than 600,000 children in Peru. Her story shows how the ILO’s strategies, from promoting decent work for adults to strengthening...
Collective bargaining
Collective bargaining models in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
This comparative study brings together the legal frameworks, institutions and mechanisms that govern collective bargaining in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, providing a clear overview of their respective models and specific features.
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Youth driving change: Skills development and decent work to break the poverty cycle
To mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, the ILO shares the stories of Patricia (Peru) and Fátima (Mexico), two young women who show how skills development and decent work can break the cycle of poverty.
ILO Brief
Decent work grows green forests
A roadmap for a just transition in the Amazon nut value chain through productive jobs and sustainability
Social protection
The ILO and Derrama Magisterial: an alliance for teachers’ social security
In this dossier, the ILO and Derrama Magisterial present the outcomes of a five-year alliance that has strengthened the governance, sustainability, and quality of services of Peru’s teachers’ social security institution. The dossier highlights the...
Social protection
Derrama Magisterial and the ILO present results of their alliance for teachers’ social security
The ILO and Derrama Magisterial presented the results of six years of technical cooperation, which have strengthened the governance, financial sustainability, and quality of services of this teachers’ social security institution. The balance...
Social protection
World of Work actors and the ILO assess progress and gaps to expand Peru’s ratification of Convention No. 102
The ILO presented a study assessing the compatibility of Peru’s legal framework with Convention No. 102, identifying progress, gaps and recommendations to strengthen social security.
Information sheet
The ILO and the social and solidarity economy in Latin America and the Caribbean
This document provides an overview of the ILO’s recent and ongoing work on the social and solidarity economy (SSE) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Social protection
Social security governance: Peruvian institutions review international good practices with the ILO and ISSA
In Peru, representatives of the State, trade unions, and the business sector took part in a technical dialogue aimed at fostering more transparent and sustainable governance of social security, guided by the international guidelines of the...
ILO Working Paper 147
Returns to education in heterogenous labour markets: The case of Peru
This paper examines the private returns to education in the context of heterogeneous labour markets, using Peru as a case study. While education is widely considered a key driver of individual earnings and economic growth, its actual returns may be...
Cooperatives
Peru certifies extension officers in methodologies to strengthen cooperatives in aquaculture
More than 20 professionals from the Directorate-General of Aquaculture of the Ministry of Production in Peru have been certified as trainers in the ILO’s Think.Coop and Start.Coop methodologies.
Sectors and value chains for decent work and productivity
2030 Roadmap approved in Peru to boost the Amazon Chestnut sector in Madre de Dios with decent work and sustainability
This strategic planning tool—developed with the active participation of Amazon Chestnut harvesters’ associations, enterprise, authorities and technical partners such as the ILO and CITEproductivo Madre de Dios—will guide the transformation of the...
Press release
ILO unveils key data on web-based platform work in Latin America and the Caribbean
New ILO report provides unprecedented data on workers in web-based digital platforms in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Latin America and the Caribbean
Survey on workers on web-based digital platforms
This report summarises a survey of 1,153 digital platform workers in Latin America and the Caribbean. It analyses their profile, working conditions and income, revealing precariousness, informality and lack of social protection. 52% use these...
A U.S. Department of Labor and ILO Event
Fair Recruitment for Decent Work: A Dialogue on Promising Practices in the Western Hemisphere
Advancing a roadmap for the Amazon Chestnut sector to foster decent work and environmental sustainability in the Peruvian Amazon
With the support of the ILO and CITEproductivo Madre de Dios, the Technical Roundtable for the Amazon chestnut is promoting an innovative roadmap to strengthen its value chain, promoting decent work, gender equality and environmental sustainability...
Occupational safety and health at work
ILO and Canada to Strengthen Occupational Safety and Health in Peru's Agricultural Sector
The project aims to enhance the capacities of the government, employers, and workers to ensure safe and healthy working conditions in a sector critical to the country's economic development. It will focus on the agricultural sector, with a specific...
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Institutionalization of EmpIAs - 6 case studies
This paper reviews the experiences of six countries – Australia, Cameroon, Korea, Peru, the Philippines, and Rwanda – in the design and implementation of employment impact assessments (EmpIAs) at different phases of the budget and planning cycle....
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