Publications on tripartism and social dialogue

  1. Flagship Report

    Social Dialogue Report 2022: Collective bargaining for an inclusive, sustainable and resilient recovery

    05 May 2022

    This first edition of this new ILO flagship report focuses on collective bargaining.

  2. DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

    Transforming enterprises through diversity and inclusion. Country profiles.

    06 April 2022

    This report presents the findings from one of the most comprehensive studies on equality, diver-sity and inclusion conducted by the ILO during a period of immense disruption as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was felt worldwide. It contributes new understanding and insights to better support enterprises in creating powerful and comprehensive change in eliminating all forms of discrimination within the workplace and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. It builds on the wealth of existing research showing the critical role of D&I in the high performance of the workforce, businesses, economies and societies globally.

  3. DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

    Transforming enterprises through diversity and inclusion. Executive Summary.

    06 April 2022

    This report presents the findings from one of the most comprehensive studies on equality, diver-sity and inclusion conducted by the ILO during a period of immense disruption as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was felt worldwide. It contributes new understanding and insights to better support enterprises in creating powerful and comprehensive change in eliminating all forms of discrimination within the workplace and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. It builds on the wealth of existing research showing the critical role of D&I in the high performance of the workforce, businesses, economies and societies globally.

  4. DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

    Transforming enterprises through diversity and inclusion

    06 April 2022

    This report presents the findings from one of the most comprehensive studies on equality, diversity and inclusion conducted by the ILO during a period of immense disruption as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was felt worldwide. It contributes new understanding and insights to better support enterprises in creating powerful and comprehensive change in eliminating all forms of discrimination within the workplace and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. It builds on the wealth of existing research showing the critical role of D&I in the high performance of the workforce, businesses, economies and societies globally.

  5. Publication

    Productive transformation and sectoral policies during the COVID-19 crisis in El Salvador and Costa Rica

    23 February 2022

    Employment policies that promote productive transformation are key to promoting job-rich growth. In this context, the current report reviews the past experience of two small open economies, Costa Rica and El Salvador, in introducing policies aimed at structural transformation, as well as how employment aspects have been included, and their lessons for employment-rich recovery strategies in a post-COVID-19 setting.

  6. Publication

    How the COVID-19 pandemic is changing business: A Literature Review

    11 January 2022

    To better support our constituents, we need to understand the on-going changes caused by Covid -19. This paper is structured around three main elements: the workforce; the workspace; and wellbeing. We hope this will help employer and business membership organizations as well as individual businesses, achieving stronger recoveries, greater resilience and growth.

  7. Publication

    Survey on the future demand for vocational training in the textile sector in Brazil

    15 December 2021

    The objective of the survey is to provide technical support to partners in the sector to design and implement professional training strategies that enable them to develop the skills necessary for the success and growth of industries, while ensuring that workers have access to decent and productive jobs.

  8. Publication

    From policy to results: Guidelines for implementation of national employment policies

    07 December 2021

    These Guidelines aim to support ILO’s member States in designing and implementing integrated national employment policies. They suggest a comprehensive framework of implementation and a range of tools and methodologies which covers the whole NEPs process systematically from policy design to policy results.

  9. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

    DRIVERS OF STRONG BUSINESS PERFORMANCE. An analysis of SMEs in selected emerging economies.

    01 December 2021

    This evidence based report identifies micro and macro factors for SME's sucess on eight emerging-market economies: Egypt, Vietnam, Turkey, Colombia, Indonesia, Tunisia, Belarus, and Peru.

  10. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

    INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FACTORS FOR SME SUCCESS. What EBMOs should know to promote more competitive enterprises.

    25 November 2021

    The Covid-19 crisis revealed that many SMEs were not prepared to deal with such a crisis. The key to resilience will be to understand the main internal characteristics of successful SMEs and also to look at the external success factors associated with the global business environment in order to design and implement public policy aimed at promoting the creation of business development services or public policies in favour of SME development. With this research, the ILO Bureau for Employers' Activities aims to contribute to this reflection.