Resources on supply chains

  1. Working hours in the global garment industry

    20 January 2016

    This research note provides an overview of working hours in the garment sector in major apparel exporting economies. It shows that garment exporters have a range of different limits on normal working hours, overtime work, and penalty rates for overtime, as well as different annual leave and public holidays.

  2. Employment, wages and working conditions in Asia's garment sector: Finding new drivers of competitiveness

    18 November 2015

    This paper presents regional trends and national estimates of exports, employment, wages, productivity and working time in the garment, textile and footwear industries in developing Asia and the Pacific.

  3. A high SCORE: First ILO project to pass external results measurement audit

    20 April 2015

    The ILO closely tracks the outreach and results of SCORE Training using the Results Measurement Standard of the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED). In 2015, SCORE’s Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system has been audited by an external auditor and found 87% compliant with the standard. This confirms that data is collected using reliable methods and reported consistently.

  4. Enterprise Formalization: Fact or Fiction? – New ILO/GIZ Study on what works to formalize enterprises

    02 June 2014

    Informality of enterprises seems to be a rational behaviour that can best be overcome by reducing the cost of formalization and by offering clear benefits like an extended coverage of social protection. This is one of the key findings of a new joint study of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) trying to summarize what works and what doesn’t work in formalizing the large informal enterprise sector in developing and emerging countries.

  5. Building Rural Roads

    05 November 2008

    This manual attempts to present a set of technical solutions and works methods commonly applied in a number of countries where the use of local resources is given serious consideration when building rural roads. Based on best practices from rural road-building programmes in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, it describes a set of work methods and procedures proven to be effective both in terms of cost and quality.