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Lessons Learned Part 1: Outreach to migrant women in areas of origin

This document describes the lessons learned by the Work in Freedom programme on outreach to migrant women in areas where they migrate from. This compilation was preceded by an earlier edition of Lessons Learned in October 2017, followed by another...

Lessons Learned Part 2: Recruitment

This document describes the lessons learned by the Work in Freedom programme on recruitment of migrant workers. This compilation was preceded by an earlier edition of Lessons Learned in October 2017, followed by another one in February 2019. This...

ILO Working paper 40

Financing human-centred COVID-19 recovery and decisive climate action worldwide: International cooperation’s twenty-first century moment of...

This Working Paper provides a concrete illustration of how the existing international financial architecture could be activated more fully to mobilize the large sums required to respond decisively to the “great divergence” in COVID-19 crisis...

Training Equitably: Gender sensitive approaches for supporting women in business

The ILO contribution to SDG 8 in the time of COVID-19

i-eval THINK Piece, No. 20 - October 2021 This Think Piece analyses the results of a synthesis review on the ILO’s work on SDG 8 against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. It critically compares the results of projects that were highly aligned...

Partnering for decent work

Funding Dialogue for strategic alignment of resources to ILO Global Flagship Programme on Building Social Protection Floors for All

Decent work results and effectiveness of ILO operations: Meta-analysis of development cooperation evaluations, 2020-21

This meta-analysis includes all independent project evaluations completed in 2020 and a selection of evaluations from 2021. It examines development effectiveness in the delivery of decent work results, by focusing on relevance, coherence,...

Global Flagship Programme on Building Social Protection Floors for All: Strategy for the second phase (2021-2025)

High-level independent evaluation of ILO’s strategy and action for promoting fair and effectives labour migration policies, 2016-20

This high-level evaluation provides insight into the relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of the ILO’s work in promoting fair and effective labour migration from 2016-20. It also looks forward, identifying...

High-level independent evaluation of the ILO’s Decent Work Programme in Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, 2018-21

The purpose of the evaluation is to determine how well the ILO’s programmes have achieved the Decent Work Agenda in the four selected South Asian countries during 2018-21. Given the surge of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the evaluation includes...

Mapping the Social and Solidarity Economy Landscape in Asia - Spotlight on Malaysia

This brief is part of the series “Mapping the Social and Solidarity Economy Landscape in Asia” that presents the SSE landscape for six countries in Asia, policy challenges and preliminary pathways for strengthening SSE in the region. The research is...

Mapping the Social and Solidarity Economy Landscape in Asia - Spotlight on Japan

This brief is part of the series “Mapping the Social and Solidarity Economy Landscape in Asia” that presents the SSE landscape for six countries in Asia, policy challenges and preliminary pathways for strengthening SSE in the region. The research is...

Quick Facts - High-level independent evaluation of the ILO’s Decent Work Programme in Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, 2018-21

This short two-pager presents a visual set of quick facts that summarizes the findings and recommendations of the High-level independent evaluation of the ILO’s Decent Work Programme in Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, 2018-21

Quick Facts - High-level independent evaluation of ILO’s strategy and action for promoting fair and effectives labour migration policies,...

This short two-pager presents a visual set of quick facts that summarizes the findings and recommendations of the High-level independent evaluation of ILO’s strategy and action for promoting fair and effectives labour migration policies, 2016-20

High-level independent evaluation of ILO’s gender equality and mainstreaming efforts, 2016-21

The evaluation analyses the achievements and outcomes of the ILO’s gender equality and mainstreaming efforts at the programme and institutional levels for the period 2016–21. It includes a review of the progress made and gaps in implementing the ILO...

Global Flagship Programme on Building Social Protection Floors for All: Report of the first phase 2016 - 2020

Factsheet

Overview of Ireland-ILO Cooperation

Infographic

National employment policies (NEPs)—What is a NEP?

Infographic providing an overview of National Employment Policies (NEPs).

Quick facts - Cluster independent project evaluation of “Employment intensive infrastructure programme” in Jordan

Global Flagship Programme on Building Social Protection Floors for All - Strategy for the second phase (2021-2025)