Publications on Employment intensive investment

Publication

100 Years of Public Works in the ILO

21 October 2021

This book chronicles the breadth and depth of ILO’s engagement in Public Works Programmes (PWPs) over the last century. It describes the journey, the ideas and the innovations that have emerged in a shifting global economic, social and political context. PWPs continue to be widely used and supported by the ILO an it is hoped that lessons that have been handed down will be useful in informing future policy-making and programme design.
PEPs

Public Employment Initiatives and the COVID-19 crisis

02 September 2021

A compendium of Infrastructure Stimulus, Public Employment Programs (PEP), Public Works programs case studies
ILO Brief

Strengthening the National Rural Transport Program (SNRTP) NEPAL: Decent employment through maintenance first approach for better road connectivity

10 June 2021
Publication

Youth employment in conflict and fragile settings (Elisa Selva and Federico Negro)

07 May 2021

Is the future ready for youth? Youth employment policies for evolving labour markets

Joint ILO/WWF publication

NATURE HIRES: How Nature-based Solutions can power a green jobs recovery

12 October 2020

Combining expertise on nature and employment, this joint World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) - ILO publication maps out the societal challenges where nature-based solutions can be effective, how they support job creation and how they have been used, providing evidence and examples as to how they integrally support the achievement of the SDGs and a sustainable response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Policy Brief

The role of public employment programmes and employment guarantee schemes in COVID-19 policy responses

29 May 2020
Guidance

COVID-19 - Job creation through employment intensive public works programmes

05 May 2020

This note was developed by the ILO's Employment-Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) to promote the design and implementation of short-term emergency employment programmes and longer term employment-intensive public works schemes to create jobs and generate income for vulnerable people in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis.

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