Resources on Cross Cutting areas

  1. Creating jobs through inclusive infrastructure investments

    This 6-week eLearning course on inclusive infrastructure investments provides an opportunity to explore how to effectively create more and better jobs through sustainable and inclusive infrastructure investments. Participants will learn more on how to design, implement and monitor infrastructure investments that boost job creation, at the same time addressing economic, social and environmental challenges. The course has been designed by the EIIP team at the ILO in partnership with ITC-ILO

  2. Decent jobs and safe water in the Philippines

    17 August 2021

    In the latest in the ILO in Action video story series, Jennylyn Aguinaldo, manager of the ILO-Japan Water Project in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, explains how the ILO is contributing to peace and development in one of the poorest parts of the Philippines, with water system construction projects that provide decent jobs, social protection and better access to safe water.

  3. A year on from the Beirut blast, ILO helps create a safer city

    04 August 2021

    After the explosion that devastated parts of the Lebanese capital Beirut on August 4th 2020, the International Labour Organization mobilized its Employment Intensive Infrastructure Programme to clear the rubble, and in the process create decent jobs and hope for Lebanese nationals and Syrian refugees. The organization continues to work with the authorities to restore livelihoods and create a safer city. Find out more: www.ilo.org/lebanon

  4. Preserve Iraq’s cultural heritage, create decent work

    18 July 2021

    In the first video story of our ILO in Action series, Chief Technical Adviser, Bashar Elsamarneh, explains how a joint ILO/EU/UNESCO project in Iraq’s historic Erbil City is preserving its cultural heritage, while teaching skills and promoting decent work for local people and Syrian refugees.

  5. Assessment of employment- intensive investment strategies in refugee-hosting communities in Ethiopia

    06 October 2020

    The report identifies short- and medium-term interventions for the creation of jobs, infrastructure and other assets for host, IDP and refugee communities by means of interventions by the Employment-Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP).

  6. ILO supports Beirut explosion clearing efforts through decent job creation

    17 August 2020

    After the explosion that devastated parts of the Lebanese capital Beirut on August 4th, the International Labour Organization has mobilized its Employment Intensive Infrastructure Programme to clear the rubble, and in the process create decent jobs for Lebanese nationals and Syrian refugees.

  7. Strengthening the impact of trade on employment in the Philippines (STRENGTHEN): Final project fact sheet

    24 September 2019

    The project aims to strengthen the employment dimension in policies and programmes related to international trade with better analysis, more coherent policy-making, and enhanced programmes that are designed to encourage employment creation and upgrading.

  8. Creating jobs through public investment

    07 March 2018

    A programme document of the Employment Intensive Investment Programme

  9. Mainstreaming green job issues into national employment policies and implementation plans: A review

    21 December 2017

    EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 227

  10. Gender in employment policies and programmes: What works for women?

    11 December 2017

    EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 235