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Practical guide

How to work in the green economy? Guide for young people, job seekers and those who support them

When choosing professional future, many young people, sensitive to planetary issues, would like their future job to be consistent with their convictions and help to bend the carbon curve. However, for non-specialists, the green economy is still very...

Spotlight Initiative

A very beautiful but heavy jacket: The experiences of migrant workers with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression in...

The study reveals migrant workers with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression (SOGIE) in South-East Asia benefit from labour migration, yet experience discrimination.

GET Ahead Implementation Guide

GET Ahead - Resources Guide

ILO PROSPECTS in Sudan - at a glance

This country factsheet provides an overview of the key interventions and results of PROSPECT programme implementation in Sudan.

The evaluation of policies promoting the transition to formality

Trade union revitalization: Experiences and key lessons from Southern Africa

Within the framework of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV) programme on “Trade Unions in Transformation-Actors for Change”, a number of studies have been commissioned to look at innovative practices...

Trade unions in transformation: Experiences from Europe and Central Asia

The aim of this study is to look at seven cases of trade unions actions in Georgia, the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan in the years immediately before and during the COVID-19 crisis to identify lessons that can be learned for trade...

Child labour

Ethical and quality reporting on child labour: A training manual for media professionals in Pakistan

The training manual has jointly been adapted by Group Development Pakistan and ILO Country Office for Pakistan for building the capacity of media professionals in ethical, evidence-based and quality reporting on child labour in Pakistan.

Quick Facts - Enhancing Labour Governance, Inspection and Working Conditions in Response to COVID-19 Phase I in Iraq – Internal Project...

This short visual set of quick facts summarizes the results of the internal project evaluation of "Enhancing Labour Governance, Inspection and Working Conditions in Response to COVID-19 Phase I in Iraq"

Quick Facts - Enhancing Labour Governance, Inspection and Working Conditions in Response to COVID-19 Phase I in Iraq – Internal Project...

Social protection

World Social Protection Report 2020-22: Regional companion report for Asia and the Pacific

This regional companion report is intended to complement the ILO’s World Social Protection Report 2020–22. It includes a section summarizing the status of social protection worldwide, followed by a section highlighting key social protection...

ILO Working paper 76

The role of tripartite social dialogue in facilitating a just transition: Experiences from selected countries

This Working Paper analyses the role of tripartite social dialogue in supporting green workplaces and, more generally, promoting just transitions at enterprise level.

Green recovery with jobs through employment policies

Guidelines for shaping employment policies that support a green recovery and a just transition

These Guidelines assist ILO constituents and technical specialists to design and implement employment policies that enhance a green recovery from the Covid-19 crisis and also contribute to a just transition over the longer term

ILO Working paper 77

The effects of COVID-19 on businesses: key versus non-key firms

This paper analyzes how a specific differentiation by governments throughout the world – whether a sector was deemed “essential” or “key” – affected firm performance.

Tertiary Education Graduate Survey in Egypt 2021: Toward Achieving Graduates’ Full Potential

This study was developed within the framework of the ILO project in support of the staff of University Centers for Career Development (UCCD) in Egypt. The project is part of a broader cooperation to support career guidance of students at public...

Infographic Brochure: Tertiary Education Graduate Survey in Egypt 2021

Check this brochure to know more insights of the study’s findings.

Trade union organizing in Bangladesh's ready-made garment sector amidst COVID pandemic: status, challenges, and scope.

The specific objectives of the study are drawn from interpreting trade union organizing, fundamentally, workers have the right to form and join organizations of their own choosing, i.e. organize as trade unions. Such organizing for the formation of...

How ILO Programmes Contribute to Social Cohesion between Refugees, IDPs and Host Communities in the Arab States Region

This research was developed by the ILO to gain some knowledge on the current contribution of ILO programmes to social cohesion at the level of direct beneficiaries, collect lessons learned and practices, and identify concrete steps towards enhancing...

SPIAC-B Gender Working Group