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Announcement

The ILO undertakes a global survey on diversity and inclusion

This brief offers information about a global survey being conducted on enterprise approaches to diversity and inclusion (D&I). The survey results will seek to create new insights and understanding on D&I actions, scope, drivers and priorities in...

ILO Working paper 36

Trade agreements and decent work in Mexico: the case of the automotive and textile industries

The study applies the framework of decent work indicators developed by the International Labour Organization (ILO), in combination with input–output analysis, to explore selected links between international trade and certain indicators of decent...

Executive Summary

Social protection responses to COVID-19 in Nepal [Executive Summary]

The report provides an assessment of how social protection systems can be reviewed and strengthened to fulfil their role as economic and social stabilizers during the crisis recovery and as integral elements of further economic growth.

Factsheet: the PROSPECTS Partnership in Egypt

Netherlands Strategic Partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and UNICEF.

Report

Social protection responses to COVID-19 in Nepal

The report provides an assessment of how social protection systems can be reviewed and strengthened to fulfil their role as economic and social stabilizers during the crisis recovery and as integral elements of further economic growth.

Guidebook for policymakers, workers’ and employers’ organizations and other stakeholders

Extending social security to workers in the informal economy: Lessons from international experience

For most workers in the informal economy, the lack of social protection is a challenge not only in their daily struggles to make ends meet but in their aspirations to obtain decent work, rights and dignity. For the societies in which they live, the...

Guidelines

Covid-19 Workplace Safety and Health Guidelines

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security, in collaboration with Social Partners, develops and adopts the Workplace Guidelines on COVID19 and Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) as part of the implementation of Return to Work Programme. The...

Case Study: The role of apprenticeships in the informal economy for skills development in Tanzania

The Tanzanian government first recognized the importance of informal education and training in its 1995 Education and Training Policy, which states that nonformal and informal education and training shall be “recognized, promoted, strengthened,...

Case Study: Update on improving apprenticeship in the informal economy in Benin

In Benin, access to formal technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is conditional on finishing the second year of secondary school, equivalent to completing nine years of education. However, among 5- to 17-year-olds, the median years...

Simplify social security- trainers manual

Trainers' manual for effective compliance and the enforcement of social security laws in Pakistan

Small goes digital

How digitalization can bring about productive growth for micro and small enterprises

Simplify social security- Pocket book

SIMPLIFY Social Security, is a tool that offers a systematic and harmonized approach for the effective and simplified application of Social Security Laws in Pakistan.

Compendium of Good Practices

Building a culture of workplace compliance through development cooperation

This compendium of good practices provides a unique set of successful practices from development cooperation projects to share knowledge gained and to help compliance actors improve efficiency with the long-term aim to replicate the positive results...

Executive Summary

COVID-19 and Recovery: The Role of Trade Unions in Building Forward Better (Executive Summary)

Brochure: The Asia Regional Child Labour (ARC) programme

This two pager provides brief introduction of the ARC programme objectives and planned activities.

Executive summary

Moving the Needle: Gender equality and decent work in Asia’s garment sector; Executive summary

The report sheds light on the importance of addressing gender equality in the garment sector, while also providing ILO constituents and industry stakeholders with a holistic roadmap for action that places decent work and social justice at the heart...

Financing and incentives for skills development: making lifelong learning a reality?

Project Outcome Brief - Achieving the SDGs and ending poverty through universal social protection

This compilation brings together key outcomes and successes of the ‘Achieving the SDGs and ending poverty through universal social protection’, a project jointly implemented by the ILO and UNDESA.

Skills and labour migration: The role of social partners in promoting policy coherence in Myanmar

This paper, Skills and labour migration: The role of social partners in promoting policy coherence in Myanmar, takes stock of Myanmar’s international migration trends; examines horizontal and vertical policy coherence; maps relevant policies related...

Promoting inclusive business environment through business coaching for transgender persons in Indonesia

The business coaching method is designed to support the transgender persons who already own and manage their own, yet struggle to improve their business and to connect with the existing SMEs community.