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Unlocking opportunities to build a better normal

Resilient businesses and the pandemic: Unlocking opportunities to build a better normal: Towards gender-responsive and resilient micro-,...

This policy brief highlights strategic ways to unlock opportunities for MSMEs, capitalizing on various joint efforts towards recovering from the pandemic, rebuilding towards a better normal and promoting the creation of gender-inclusive, greener...

Improving workers’ rights in the rural sectors in mining

Improving Workers’ Rights in Rural Sectors of the Indo Pacific with a Focus on Women: Fact sheet in Mining

The project is implemented as part of Safety + Health for All, the ILO Flagship Programme -aimed at improving the safety and health of workers worldwide. Contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in reducing the incidence...

Improving workers’ rights in the rural sectors in agriculture

Improving Workers’ Rights in Rural Sectors of the Indo Pacific with a Focus on Women: Fact sheet in Agriculture

The Project aims to contribute in ensuring and sustaining improved working conditions, especially for women workers, through the improvement and promotion of labour laws compliance in the rural sectors in the Philippines and Indonesia. The project...

Policy recommendations: Increasing gender equality in social insurance pensions in Viet Nam

This policy brief is number 2 in a series of technical notes based on the report Adapting social insurance to women’s life courses: A gender impact assessment of Viet Nam. It was prepared by the ILO Social Protection team in Viet Nam as an input to...

Gender gaps in the social insurance system

This policy brief is number 1 in a series of technical notes based on the report Adapting social insurance to women’s life courses: A gender impact assessment of Viet Nam. It was prepared by the ILO Social Protection team in Viet Nam as an input to...

ILO Working paper 39

Welfare Effects of Unemployment Benefits when Informality is High

We analyze for the first time how the high incidence of informal employment affects the welfare effects of unemployment benefits (UBs) outside of developed economies, exploiting matched administrative and survey data from the UB scheme of Mauritius.

Project notes

Ten lessons from enterprises operating under the “3 on-site” scheme during Viet Nam’s 4th COVID-19 outbreak

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

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...

We are in this together

Labour Migration Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis in Europe and North Africa

The Fight Against Forced Labour and Trafficking for Labour Exploitation in Qatar

What is forced labour and human trafficking? And how are these crimes addressed in Qatari law? This handbook serves as a guide for understanding and identifying these crimes and the national strategy to combat them.

WISCON - Work Improvement for Small Construction Sites

Action manual for improving safety, health and working conditions on small construction sites by employers, supervisors and workers.

The use of GIS in employment impact assessments

Improving occupational safety and health in the coffee supply chain. A toolkit for action

A compilation of tools, methodologies and research for reducing occupational accidents and diseases.

Toolkit

Setting up effective Job Centres in developing countries with reference to sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa Regions

This toolkit is part of a package of guidelines and tools comprising a research paper on trends and developments in employment services in the regions and guidelines on setting up effective job centres developed in collaboration with GIZ Youmatch...

Domestic workers

Making decent work a reality for domestic workers: Organizing and empowering domestic workers through skills trainings, awareness raising...

The report assesses the key achievements, challenges and lessons learnt of the ILO’s Developing International and Internal Labour Migration Governance (DIILM) project supported by Livelihoods and Food Security Fund (LIFT).

WISCON - Work Improvement For Small Construction Sites

This action manual can be used for improving safety, health and working conditions on small construction sites by employers, supervisors and workers.

The impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: a study of income loss of workers in the garment sector

Myanmar garment sector, a major contributor to jobs and livelihoods for the country, has been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: a study of workers laid-off in the garment sector

Myanmar garment sector, a major contributor to jobs and livelihoods for the country, has been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The impact of COVID-19 on Myanmar’s garment sector

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the global garment sector and has been felt in every part of the supply chain. Myanmar’s garment sector, a major contributor to jobs and livelihoods for the country, has been no exception, and...

International Labour Review - Centenary Collection (2021)

Centenary Issue No. 1: Informality