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Report

Decent Work for Women Programme- Jordan

This analysis serves to lay a foundation for collective efforts aimed at raising awareness on C190 and R206, as well as to identify legislative gaps in Jordanian legislation and to present tangible recommendations on legislative amendments needed to...

Brief

An ILO initiative on advancing the Guidelines concerning Statistics of Cooperatives

Expanding entrepreneurship: 23 million and counting - Start and Improve Your Business Global Tracer Study 2016-2020

Every 5 years the ILO’s Global SIYB team publishes the Global Tracer Study to analyse the outreach of the SIYB programme. SIYB has a long track record of promoting development of micro and small enterprises as a strategy for creating more and better...

Background paper

Towards a transformative macroeconomic policy framework for employment generation in Africa

Publications of the International Labour Office enjoy copyright under Protocol 2 of the Universal Copyright Convention. Nevertheless, short excerpts from them may be reproduced without authorization, on condition that the source is indicated. For...

Report

Coping Alone: The state of small-scale enterprises and vulnerable workers in Iraq eight months into the COVID-19 pandemic

This report examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected particularly vulnerable types of enter- prises and groups of workers in central and northern parts of Iraq.

Report

A diagnostic of the informal economy in Iraq

A joint partnership between UN agencies, development partners and the Government was launched to conduct a diagnostic on informality in the Iraqi labour market.

Financial Mechanisms for Innovative Social and Solidarity Economy Ecosystems: The case of Italy

This study presents an analysis of the social and solidarity economy (SSE) in Italy and of the financial mechanisms available to Italian SSE organisations to fund their operations and investments. The analysis is based on the latest available data...

Reforms of the employment insurance system of the Republic of Korea to cope with the COVID-19 crisis

COVID-19 pandemic that caused massive unemployment has forced countries to review their employment policy and protection system. This paper summarized efforts taken by Republic of Korea in reforming their employment protection system during the...

Financial mechanisms for innovative social and solidarity economy ecosystems: The case of Morocco

In this paper, the main aspects related to the Moroccan SSE ecosystem, its main protagonists and the public policies that frame it are explored. Also, the means of financing available within the SSE framework in Morocco are analysed. Finally, the...

Financial mechanisms for innovative social and solidarity economy ecosystems: The case of Quebec

This case study examines the financial mechanisms that support the social economy in Quebec, Canada. Quebec’s innovative social economy ecosystem is rooted in strong associative and cooperative traditions, well developed networks, and strong...

Financial mechanisms for innovative social and solidarity economy ecosystems: The case of the Republic of Korea

This paper is organised into four sections. The first section describes the social and solidarity economy (SSE) ecosystem in the Republic of Korea, with a focus on its roots and drivers, the main actors and stakeholders involved and the policy...

Employment Working Group

2021 Annual International Migration and Forced Displacement Trends and Policies Report to the G20

During the COVID-19 pandemic, migrants and refugees were and still are among the most vulnerable groups on the labour market. At the G20 Summit in Saudi Arabia, leaders declared their aim to "mitigate the impact of the pandemic on those in...

Employment Working Group

Monitoring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment in the G20

A year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, labour markets experienced some recovery. Yet, the aggregate hours worked in G20 countries are still lower than the pre-crisis level and the G20 employment rate is projected to fall short of the...

Employment Working Group

Women at Work in G20 countries: policy action since 2020

The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on employment was initially greater for women than for men. Unlike in previous crises, sectors in which women are over-represented were hit more by job and work hour losses than those in which men prevail. The...

Employment Working Group

Digital platforms and the world of work in G20 countries: Status and Policy Action

Innovations in digital technologies and the ability to quickly and cheaply exchange large amounts of data and information between individuals, businesses and devices have laid the foundation for the rise of the digital economy. These transformations...

Development Working Group

Financing social protection through the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

This report is produced for the G20 Development Working Group by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the World Bank. It demonstrates the key role that social protection...

Results and reflections from a quality appraisal of ILO evaluations, 2020

i-eval THINK Piece, No. 21 - November 2021 This Think Piece analyses the results of 46 independent development cooperation project evaluations submitted to the ILO’s Evaluation Office between January 2020 and December 2020. It reports a summary of...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

Internal and external factors for SME success - What EBMOs should know to promote more competitive enterprises

The Covid-19 crisis revealed that many SMEs were not prepared to deal with such a crisis. The key to resilience will be to understand the main internal characteristics of successful SMEs and also to look at the external success factors associated...

Policy Brief

Digitalisation of TVET and skills development: Leveraging technology to support lifelong learning

This policy brief concentrates on the digital transformation of skills systems and how technologies affect them. It is focused on how skills systems themselves become digitised, not how they respond to the demand for skills arising from...

Global highlights

SIYB Update 2021

We are glad to share the 2021 SIYB Update. This year's publication showcases recent SIYB-related activities in 47 different countries plus information on the global SIYB highlights.