Employment services: Key resources
May 2021
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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
April 2021
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Brochure
Fair Recruitment Initiative Strategy 2021-2025 - Summary
06 April 2021
The Fair Recruitment Initiative (FRI) was launched in 2014 as part of the ILO Fair Migration Agenda. Since its launch, the FRI has been critical to ILO’s work in the area of national and international recruitment of workers and has added renewed impetus and visibility to this important topic. The 2021-2025 FRI Strategy will continue to be grounded in relevant international labour standards (ILS), global guidance, and social dialogue between governance institutions and actors of the labour market.
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Publication
Employer skills needs survey (Amid COVID-19 responses)
01 April 2021
March 2021
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Training Policy Brief
Reducing the youth unemployment in Brazil: a practical approach
23 March 2021
The aim of this brief is to propose solutions for improving the Public Employment Services, as well as reforming the apprenticeship programme, in order for Brazil to effectively reduce the rate of youth unemployment.
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Book
Is the future ready for youth?
18 March 2021
How do we ensure that the policymakers and the global community prioritize youth employment, so essential for sustainable development and social justice? This book brings together contributions from ILO with broad global experience in successful youth employment policies. They discuss the policies needed to address the challenge, in a time of rapid transformation, of achieving a better future for the youth.
January 2021
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Fair recruitment
Reporting on forced labour and fair recruitment: An ILO toolkit for Journalists in Viet Nam
27 January 2021
This toolkit was created to help journalists in Viet Nam report on fair recruitment and forced labour.
December 2020
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Fair recruitment
Central American migrant women in Mexico: Informality in recruitment and employment
18 December 2020
This brief summarizes the current state of recruitment practices for Central American migrant women, focusing on four key sectors including agriculture, domestic work, sex work and street vending, and focuses on migrants from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, placing specific emphasis on Guatemala.
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Labour Migration
Ensuring migrant workers access to justice: An assessment of Thailand’s Migrant Workers Assistance Centers
17 December 2020
To increase migrant workers’ access to justice in Thailand, in 2016 the Ministry of Labour established Migrant Workers Assistance Centers in ten provinces throughout the country. By April 2019, the ten centres had delivered services to nearly 125,000 migrant workers from Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Myanmar.
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ILO Working Paper 19
Trends and new developments in employment services to support transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa Regions
16 December 2020
This paper presents the findings of a survey undertaken in selected countries in the Sub Saharan Africa and Middle East and North Africa regions (SSA and MENA) aimed at reviewing the status of employment service provision, challenges and opportunities for their development.
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Infographic
ILO maps out technological transformation in Public Employment Services
14 December 2020