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Chapter 1 summary: Employment-centred macroeconomic policies: A reality in recovery processes? Authors: Sher Verick, Johannes Weiss,...

Summary of Chapter 1 of the Global Employment Policy Review (Second edition).

Developing a National GHS Implementation Strategy

A Guidance Document to support implementation of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)

Think piece

A market systems approach to skills development

A joint think piece by the ILO SKILLS Branch and SME unit

ILO Working paper 72

Why should we integrate income and employment support? A conceptual and empirical investigation

This paper conceptualizes, for the first time, the implementation of policy approaches that integrate active labour market policies within income support schemes, focusing on low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). We develop a conceptual framework...

Belize National Child Labour Policy and Strategy, 2022-2025

The development of the Belize National Child Labour Policy and Strategy 2022-2025 was an iterative process that commenced in August 2021. A literature review was undertaken accompanied by an extensive series of bilateral consultations with multiple...

Guide to Gender-Sensitive Approaches to Value Chain Development

The Guide to Gender-Sensitive Approaches to Value Chain Development provides practical advice, recommendations and good practices to programmes seeking to adopt a more gender-sensitive approach to value chain development

Child labour

Child Labour in domestic work in Pakistan: A scoping study

Child labour in domestic work remains a widespread, but hidden, phenomenon worldwide. The qualitative study assessed the current situation of child labour in domestic work, elaborated the major push and pull factors, working conditions, effects on...

Child labour

Research Brief: Child labour in domestic work in Pakistan

Child labour in domestic work remains a widespread, but hidden, phenomenon worldwide. The qualitative study assessed the current situation of child labour in domestic work, elaborated the major push and pull factors, working conditions, effects on...

Report

The gender pay gap in the health and care sector: A global analysis in the time of COVID-19

Executive Summary

The gender pay gap in the health and care sector: A global analysis in the time of COVID-19

Comprehensive rapid assessment of public employment services in Uganda - With a special assessment in two target host community refugee...

ILO Working paper 71

How corporate social responsibility and sustainable development functions impact the workplace: A review of the literature

This report sets out to analyse the emergence and distinctive impact of corporate social responsibility and sustainable development (CSR/SD) functions and professionals within organizations. By evaluating the literature on this topic, it seeks to...

Locations of STED development cooperation

Easy-to-read version of "Making the future of work inclusive of people with disabilities" report

Making sure that work in the future is better and fairer for people with disabilities

This easy-to-read version of the 2019 publication "Making the future of work inclusive of people with disabilities" by Fundación ONCE and the ILO Global Business and Disability Network shows how to ensure that the future of work is inclusive,...

A safe and healthy working environment is a fundamental principle and right at work

At its 110th Session in June 2022, the International Labour Conference recognized “a safe and healthy working environment” as a fundamental principle and right at work and designated the Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) and...

Country Baselines

2020-2021 Annual Review under the follow-up to the ILO 1998 Declaration - Compilation of baseline tables, by country

(based on the reports of Member States that have not ratified all fundamental Conventions and/or that have not ratified the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930)

Rural economy

Decent work deficits among rural workers

This report is a summary of the findings of 16 case studies commissioned by the ILO Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV) in mid-2021 to examine the situation concerning decent work and existing opportunities for trade union organizing in rural...

ILO Ukraine response July 2022

The document provides information on the impact of the war in Ukraine on employment, incomes and the social protection system, and the ILO response with proposals to support the country, as well as Moldova, the most vulnerable host country for...

Better Work Jordan | Phase IV Strategy (2022-2027)

Agenda of The Future of Social Security for New Forms of Work International Conference

The international conference gathers prominent national and international speakers to address the challenges of social security and responsesin the future of work in China and across the globe, in the context of key mega trends of digitalisation of...