Resources on Emergency Employment

  1. Rapid employment creation in times of crisis: From cash for work to sustainable recovery and livelihood development

    31 March 2020

    This document brings together ILO principles, experiences and tools in rapid employment creation in times of crisis, with examples from the Asia and Pacific region where natural disasters are frequent occurrences due to the changing climates.

  2. Social Safeguards Framework for rural road works

    13 July 2018

    This Social Safeguards Framework (SSF) for the R4D Program has been designed to guide the implementation of inclusive and rights-based practices in rural road programs in Timor-Leste, and to prevent and mitigate their possible negative social impacts.

  3. Basic safety and health guidelines for rural road works

    23 May 2018

    Provides the opportunity for all stakeholders to demonstrate good practices related to the compliance and enforcement of the national occupational health and safety in rural road works.

  4. Strengthening national leadership through the Embedded Approach in Timor-Leste

    19 September 2016

    This paper provides an overview of selected lessons learned from the ILO’s involvement in fragile Timor-Leste. In particular it focuses on the embedded approach and its significance for the sustained engagement of the ILO in Timor-Leste.

  5. ERA Stories: Proving Women Can

    22 August 2015

    When Rosa Sarmento announced to her husband that she was would be a community overseer on a road building project for a difficult and mountainous road in her village of Metagou, she might have well announced that she was flying to the moon.

  6. ERA Stories: Opening up remote communities in Timor-Leste

    21 August 2015

    Sitting on a brand new motorbike, in front of his newly constructed house, Gilberto Baptista, a busy motorcycle taxi driver, admits he owes all his recent good fortune to the newly rehabilitated Leohitu road, Timor-Leste.

  7. Roads for Development (R4D) (Timor-Leste)

    14 June 2012

    The R4D project will bring social and economic benefits to women and men in rural Timor-Leste by carrying out rehabilitation and maintenance of rural road networks.

  8. Project Brief: Roads for Development program (R4D)

    01 March 2012

    Combining Capacity Building with the Delivery of Capital Investments in Rural Road Works

  9. Local Economic Development and Employment Intensive Investments

    20 October 2008