The ILO’s Employment Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) promotes a local resource-based strategy to increase the impact of investments in infrastructure on employment creation, poverty reduction and local development. EIIP works with governments, employers' and workers' organizations, the private sector and communities in orienting infrastructure investments towards the creation of productive employment and towards the improvement of access to basic goods and services for the poor.
EIIP has proven that a combined use of local participation in planning with the utilization of locally available skills, technology, materials, and appropriate work methods is an effective and economically viable approach to infrastructure works in developing countries.