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FAIR: Integrated Programme on Fair Recruitment Phase III (2022-2025)

Contribution of the forest sector to total employment in national economies - Estimating the number of people employed in the forest sector

This study employs a new method to fill the gaps of missing data points in order to provide sound total employment estimates in the forest sector on a global scale.

Factsheet

Protection against acts of anti-union discrimination: Evidence from the updated IRLex database

Anti-union discrimination is one of the most serious violations of freedom of association, as it may jeopardize the very existence of trade unions. This IRLex factsheet provides a summary of the International Labour Standards protecting workers...

Child Labour Platform (CLP): The leading business initiative to eradicate child labour

The Child Labour Platform (CLP) is the leading business initiative to eradicate child labour in supply chains.

Cross-Border Value Chain Development: A Rough Guide to Market Systems Development for Decent Work

Manual for practitioners

Work-Based Learning in Technical and Vocational Education and Training: An implementation manual for practitioners in Lebanon and Arab...

Practitioners play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and monitoring Work-Based Learning (WBL) programmes. This manual is designed for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) administrators, coordinators, and instructors, as...

Expanding coverage or reducing protection? Considerations on Voluntary Savings Schemes in Jordan’s social protection system

In this note the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) reflect on a recent proposal by the World Bank to introduce a voluntary savings scheme (VSS) in Jordan with the objective...

Linking Research to Policy Making

Information brochure: Trainings on Evidence-Based Policy Making for Decent Work

Linking Research to Policy Making

Decent work results and effectiveness of ILO operations: An ex-post meta-analysis of development cooperation evaluations, 2021-22 (partial)

This meta-analysis includes all independent project evaluations completed in 2021 and a selection of evaluations from 2022. It assesses the extent to which decent work results have been achieved and the effectiveness of ILO’s operations by reviewing...

Selling insurance through agent networks

Distribution is one of the biggest obstacles in offering insurance services to low-income households, small enterprises and rural communities. Digital channels offer new opportunities, but a more high-touch model is often needed to educate...

Zimbabwe: Putting decent jobs at the centre of the economic development strategy

This Labour Market Diagnostic Analysis (LMDA), presents findings of a study conducted by the Government of Zimbabwe through the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, with support from the International Labour Organization (ILO), and...

ILO Working paper 84

Engendering informality statistics: gaps and opportunities

Informality is a dynamic and multidimensional concern that demands gender-sensitive data. In 2018, globally, more than 60% of employment was informal. However, global averages hide that in more countries the share of women in informal employment...

Provisional Meeting Ar New document

ILO Ukraine response November 2022

The two-pager provides information on the impact of the war in Ukraine on employment, incomes and the social protection system, and what the ILO has done so far to support Ukraine.

Support for Ukraine recovery−Introducing the ILO service offer 2022

This document presents the service offer of the ILO for contributing to Ukraine Recovery and Reconstruction through decent work promotion. Based on the presence of the ILO in Ukraine since 1993, the paper specifies the technical service offer of the...

ILO Pakistan flood response - A job-rich recovery

Between June and August 2022, torrential rains and a combination of riverine, urban, and flash flooding led to an unprecedented disaster in Pakistan. According to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), around 33 million people have been...

Towards a referral network for training and post-training support services: A mapping of training and post training service providers.

Easy-to-read version of "An inclusive digital economy for people with disabilities" report

Making sure that people with disabilities are not left out of the digital world of work

This easy-to-read version of the 2021 publication "An inclusive digital economy for people with disabilities" by Fundación ONCE and the ILO Global Business and Disability Network takes a closer look at the digital transformation of the world of work...

The Future of Work and Lifelong Learning

Adapting apprenticeships for the reskilling and upskilling of adults

This report was compiled under the ILO’s research project – Apprenticeship Development for Universal Lifelong Learning and Training (ADULT) – funded by the Government of Flanders. The project aims to explore how apprenticeship systems are being...

The Future of Work and Lifelong Learning

Promoting apprenticeships to meet the skills needs of the digital and knowledge economy

This report was compiled under the ILO’s research project – Apprenticeship Development for Universal Lifelong Learning and Training (ADULT) – funded by the Government of Flanders. The project aims to explore how apprenticeship systems are being...