Publications
The ILO Country Office for the Philippines (CO-Manila) publishes a wide range of books, reports, working papers, training manuals, CD-ROMs, videos and flash movies. Some of these can be downloaded directly. Others can be requested or purchased in hard copy from the ILO Knowledge Centre in Manila or by email.
2009
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Enhancing youth employability is a business mission
31 December 2009
While according to the Constitution of the Philippines, education is to accorded the “highest priority” the reality is that in recent years, the quality of education, particularly through the public school system has been in a state of neglect.
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Operations guide: Managing an ILO-CIDA youth employment country project: Philippines
31 December 2009
This study provides a guide to the actual manner in which the project was undertaken. Principles of project planning are discussed in some detail along with the application of result-based management (RBM) and logical frame (logframe) analysis, used to identify and organize the results.
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Briefing guide: Meeting youth employment policy and action challenges
31 December 2009
This briefing guide is a consolidation of earlier material prepared in 2005 for stakeholders in the Promoting Youth Employment in the Philippines (PYEP) project. It explains the terms used in defining (and working in the area of) youth unemployment and underemployment and outlines the specific needs of youth which are separable from the more general problems surrounding unemployment as a whole.
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Choosing and assessing local youth unemployment interventions
31 December 2009
The author looks at the cost-effectiveness of various programmes that address youth unemployment. The author disaggregates the youth segment from total unemployment and examines the two classes of unemployment – voluntary and involuntary – and their causes.
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Youth employment in the Philippines
31 December 2009
This study, the first in a series assessing the youth employment situation in the Philippines prepared as part of the two-year ILO-CIDA Project on Promoting Youth Employment in the Philippines (PYEP), examines labour market trends over the past 20-year period looking at labour force participation and the distinctive aspects of youth employment and unemployment that are separable from the labour force as a whole.
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ILO Country Office for the Philippines publications catalogue, December 2009
15 December 2009
CO-Manila's new library resource list.
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ILO Country Office for the Philippines publications catalogue, November 2009
30 November 2009
CO-Manila's new library resource list.
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Cost-benefit analysis of HIV prevention programmes for Filipino seafarers 2010-2015
16 November 2009
The Philippines is the world largest supplier of seafarers, contributing approximately 20 per cent of the seafarers in the international maritime sector. According to the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) 267,000 Filipino seafarers were deployed by international maritime industry in 2007.
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The impact of the global financial and economic crisis on employment and social development and policy responses
06 November 2009
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ILO Country Office for the Philippines publications catalogue, October 2009
30 October 2009
CO-Manila's new library resource list.
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Seminar-workshop on international labour standards
01 October 2009
The ILO aims to ensure that it serves the needs of working men and women by bringing together governments, employers and workers to set labour standards, develop policies and devise programmes.
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MDG-F joint programme on alternatives to migration: Decent work for Filipino youth: Project flyer
01 October 2009
The MDG-F supports initiatives in the thematic areas including: youth employment and migration, democratic governance, gender equality and women's empowerment.
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ILO Country Office for the Philippines publications catalogue, September 2009
30 September 2009
CO-Manila's new library resource list.
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Going back, moving on, a synthesis report of the trends and experiences of returned trafficking victims in Thailand and the Philippines
30 September 2009
The report explores some of the issues, obstacles and opportunities related to the return and integration of women migrants who have experienced exploitative situation abroad, including forced labour and human trafficking. It is based on a series of interviews with returned victims of trafficking in Thailand and the Philippines.
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Climate resilient farming communities in Agusan del Norte through innovative risk transfer mechanisms
04 September 2009
The economic condition of populations at risk, whether in terms of economic assets, capital resources or financial means, is a very important determinant of adaptive capacity to climate change impacts. Poor people are more vulnerable to projected impacts while the wealthy ones are better equipped to deal with the costs of adaptation.
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International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC): Towards a child-labour free Philippines: Project fact sheet
01 September 2009
The ILO-IPEC commits to help in reducing the cases of child labour. This ILO Programme assumes responsibility of giving direct services to 9,350 children involved in child labour in the Philippines.
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Decent work for all newsletter: Exploring new platforms of social dialogue for domestic workers
01 September 2009
The Philippines has embarked on a Decent Work for Domestic Workers campaign to craft a unified position to the International Labour Conference in 2010 and to lobby for the passage of a domestic workers national law.
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ILO Country Office for the Philippines publications catalogue, August 2009
31 August 2009
CO-Manila's new library resource list.
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Interacting with workers' organizations: A primer for ADB staff
17 August 2009
The primer provides introductory information, summaries of relevant passages of the Asian Development Banks (ADB's) policies and strategies and links to information and tools. It explains how consultation with workers' organizations may be incorporated into the programme and project cycle, and provides some examples on how this has been done. The aim is to contribute to successful project outcomes and enhancement of benefits to affected people.
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ILO Country Office for the Philippines publications catalogue, July 2009
31 July 2009
CO-Manila's new library resource list.