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Brochure

Seeds for innovation

This material was prepared by the ILO, through its SCORE Programme Phase IV, MIGA and HUB4MA for the Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2022 event in Turin.

ILO Working paper 79

COVID-19 Among Migrant Farmworkers in Canada: Employment Strain in a Transnational Context

This study analyzes the conditions that migrant farmworkers in Canada endured prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic (January 2020-March 2022).

Policy paper on “Bridging the employability skills gap in the higher education in Egypt”

The ILO- UCCD project in cooperation with the Public Policy HUB – The American University in Cairo, supported the development of a policy paper and its policy brief on “Bridging the employability skills gap in the higher education in Egypt”.

Policy brief on “Bridging the employability skills gap in the higher education in Egypt”

The ILO- UCCD project in cooperation with the Public Policy HUB– The American University in Cairo, supported the development of a policy paper and its policy brief on “Bridging the employability skills gap in the higher education in Egypt”.

On-Job-Training Manual for the poultry sector

Social and solidarity economy: Social innovation catalyst in Africa?

The report illustrates and characterizes the social innovation processes carried out by Social and Solidarity Economy Organizations (SSEOs) in five African countries (South Africa, Cameroon, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia). By analysing practical...

Training manual on child labour prevention and reduction: For cooperatives and the collective sector - Book 1

The package entitled "Training manual on child labour prevention and reduction for cooperatives and the collective sector" was developed under the cooperation between ILO Vietnam and Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA). It is a set of training...

Book 2

Training manual on child labour prevention and reduction: For cooperatives and the collective sector - Book 2

The package entitled "Training manual on child labour prevention and reduction for cooperatives and the collective sector" was developed under the cooperation between ILO Vietnam and Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA). It is a set of training...

Find good work. Securing employment free from exploitation and discrimination

The brochure aims to inform Ukrainian refugees seeking employment in Germany about the dangers of labour exploitation and the best way of securing decent work.

ILO Action Plan for Gender Equality 2022–25

This ILO Action Plan for Gender Equality 2022–25 is one of a number of tools that supports these goals. Its immediate target audience is ILO staff and management, although ILO constituents are the ultimate beneficiaries. The Action Plan 2022–25 also...

Training guidelines and modules: Raising awareness of harassment, violence and HIV/AIDS vulnerability among women seafarers, women...

This guideline will be used as the main reference for polytechnic partners to increase their capacity in mainstreaming gender equality and social inclusion at the institutional level and through the teaching and learning process in polytechnics.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Guide

The guidebook aims to help trade unions design work programs strategically, systematically and logically to achieve the expected targets. As well as identifying the expected results from a certain period which are determined based on the results...

Social Finance Brief: Pacífico Seguros

Pacífico Seguros is Peru’s largest insurer in terms of premiums collected and second largest in terms of people insured. In this Social Finance Brief, we explore "Protected Business", an insurance product designed by Pacífico to cover the main risks...

Hygiene and Antimicrobial Spray Training: A Reference Manual

This manual was prepared under the BMZ supported project “Protecting Garment Sector Workers: Occupational Safety and Health and Income Support in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic”, implemented by ILO SOCPRO, Vision Zero Fund (VZF) and Better Work.

Joint report - Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, ILO and IDOS

A majority working in the shadows: A six-country opinion survey on informal labour in sub-Saharan Africa

Most workers in sub-Saharan Africa are informally employed, which often leaves them without access to health care and social protection.

Policy Brief

Extending social protection coverage to informal economy workers: What workers’ organizations need to know

This policy brief aims at helping workers' representatives to better understand the complexity of and the challenges for extending social protection coverage to workers in the informal economy, and the different policy choices which countries have...

Policy Brief

Creating fiscal space for financing social protection: What workers’ organizations need to know

This policy brief intends to provide workers’ representatives with a better understanding of the challenges related to the creation of fiscal space for social protection financing and the different policy options to overcome these challenges with a...

Policy Brief

Closing gender gaps in social protection: What workers’organizations need to know

This policy brief provides an overview of the root causes of gender-related social protection gaps and the ILO’s strategy for filling them.

Policy Brief

Old-age pension models worldwide from an ILO perspective: What workers’ organizations need to know

This policy brief aims to show evidences that workers’ organizations can make a vital contribution to informed discussions on pension reform policies and their implementation at the national level.

Social Security

Workers’ guide to ILO Conventions concerning minimum standards of social security

The guide aims to help workers’ representatives to promote the ratification of ILO standards, and in particular Convention No. 102, and to ensure their application at national level as a basis for progressively extending adequate and sustainable...