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Casebook of court decisions on forced labour

This second edition of the Casebook of court decisions on forced labour examines how courts across jurisdictions are interpreting and applying evolving legal standards on forced labour. Drawing on 50 principal cases, it highlights judicial...

ILO Brief

Pathways to Resilience and Economic Recovery in Lebanon: Rapid Market Assessment of the Tourism Sector

This brief examines Lebanon’s tourism sector, assessing market challenges, skills needs and employment opportunities. It highlights potential for growth in cultural, rural and ecotourism, alongside priorities for digital and green skills, work-based...

ILO Brief

Pathways to Resilience and Economic Recovery in Lebanon: Rapid Market Assessment of the Solid Waste Management Sector

This brief examines Lebanon’s solid waste management sector, highlighting market constraints, skills gaps and working conditions. It identifies opportunities for green job creation through recycling, composting and circular economy activities,...

ILO Brief

Pathways to Resilience and Economic Recovery in Lebanon: Rapid Market Assessment of the Garment Sector

This brief examines Lebanon’s garment sector, highlighting challenges related to competitiveness, skills development and working conditions. It identifies opportunities in sustainable production, digital commerce and market access, alongside...

ILO Brief

Pathways to Resilience and Economic Recovery in Lebanon: Rapid Market Assessment of the Construction Sector

This brief examines Lebanon’s construction sector, assessing the impact of the economic crisis and conflict on employment and market activity. It explores emerging opportunities in rehabilitation, maintenance and green construction, while...

ILO Brief

Pathways to Resilience and Economic Recovery in Lebanon: Rapid Market Assessment of the Agrifood Sector

This brief examines Lebanon’s agrifood sector, highlighting market trends, value-chain constraints, skills gaps and employment challenges. It identifies opportunities to strengthen competitiveness, improve skills development, promote inclusive...

ILO Working Paper 182

AI Ethics and the ILO’s international labour standards system: exploring synergies

This working paper explores the relationship between AI ethics principles and the ILO’s international labour standards, identifying areas of convergence and divergence. It examines how both frameworks can complement and reinforce each other to...

South Africa’s automotive transition: Managing employment risks and opportunities in the shift to new energy vehicles

The shift to new energy vehicles will reshape jobs, skills and production across the automotive industry in South Africa. This ILO brief examines the employment risks and opportunities of the transition and identifies priorities for supporting...

Climate change

The employment, environment and climate nexus in Barbados

This brief examines the links between employment, environmental sustainability and climate change in Barbados, highlighting opportunities for green job creation and a just transition.

OECD - ILO Policy Brief

Guidance note for implementing flexible learning parthways into healthcare occupations

This policy brief outlines how countries can strengthen skills systems to expand access to careers in the healthcare sector. It identifies key pillars for developing flexible learning pathways that enable individuals from diverse backgrounds to...

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Guide for Employment Impact Assessments in the Renewable Energy Sector

This guide presents how Employment Impact Assessment can be conducted to help inform and support decisions on renewable energy related investments that can maximize positive employment outcomes, i.e. more and better jobs, based on credible,...

Policy brief

Access to remedy and decent work

This brief explores the relationship between labour rights and access to remedy from a business and human rights perspective. It examines mechanisms for addressing labour-related grievances, barriers to effective remedy and the complementary roles...

Breaking the youth experience trap

Hiring for entry-level jobs: substituting experience and testing skills-based job design

ILO Working Paper 181

Advancing Green Trade and Employment under Global Uncertainty

This paper examines global trade patterns in green goods towards 2030. This is done in the context of current global trade tensions. The paper uses international trade flow data from WITS/COMTRADE, in conjunction with the IMF’s classification of...

Template 3.1 - Code of conduct form for evaluators

ILO Brief

FDI and global value chains in Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco

Foreign direct investment supports employment in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia, but its impact depends more on where foreign firms operate and their role in global value chains than on the overall volume of investment.

Using firm-level and integrated data sources for enterprise policy development

This ILO report explores how enterprise surveys, household surveys and administrative data can be used together to strengthen enterprise and labour market policymaking, with illustrative applications from Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil.

Checklist 4.6 Writing the inception report

Checklist 4.2 Preparing the evaluation report

Policy brief

Disability inclusion in skills and employment: progress, challenges, and policy priorities

Drawing on dialogues with TVET professionals, organizations of persons with disabilities, government, employers and civil society, this brief identifies key gaps and policy priorities for disability inclusion in skills development and jobs. It is...