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Rapid assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on private recruitment agencies in Nepal

This assessment highlights the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the recruitment industry in Nepal.

Migrant Welfare Funds: Lessons for Myanmar from Nepal, Thailand and the Philippines

This paper prepared by ILO Myanmar’s Development of Internal and International Labour Migration (DIILM Project) (February 2016 – June 2021) funded by Livelihoods and Food Security Fund (LIFT) provides details of the development, administration and...

Developing national career development support systems: Pathways to enhance lifelong career guidance, career education and career...

This joint report by the ILO and the European Training Foundation (ETF) presents an analysis of how to develop career development support systems, including career guidance, career education and career development support for workers.

The Work in Freedom Handbook: A critical glossary of terms relating to freedom and unfreedom in the world of work

The purpose of this critical glossary is to deconstruct some of these commonly used concepts related forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking in order to flag their blind spots, merits and other characteristics.

International Law, Social Protection and Myanmar Migrant Workers (ILO Brief 1)

This is the first brief on Social Protection and Myanmar Migrant Workers prepared by ILO Myanmar’s Development of Internal and International Labour Migration (DIILM Project) (February 2016 – June 2021) funded by Livelihoods and Food Security Fund...

Social security system in Myanmar and migrant workers (ILO Brief 2)

This is the second brief on Social Protection and Myanmar Migrant Workers prepared by ILO Myanmar’s Development of Internal and International Labour Migration (DIILM Project) (February 2016 – June 2021) funded by Livelihoods and Food Security Fund...

Supporting Women’s Employment through Institutional Collaboration on Early Childhood Care and Education

ILO & UNDP Youth Forum Programme

Decent Work in Garment Supply Chains Asia

Greener clothes? Environmental initiatives and tools in the garment sector in Asia

The increasing social and environmental impacts of the textile and garment supply chain are well known and have resulted in the development of an array of initiatives, tools and assessment platforms to enhance the sustainability of the sector. There...

A literature review on workers’ centres

Reclaiming space for workers in the 21st century

Partnership for improving prospects for forcibly displaced persons and host communities (PROSPECTS) - Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq

In Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq, the ILO under the PROSPECTS partnership is implementing interventions to address some of the critical decent work challenges facing both forcibly displaced persons and host communities, as part of efforts to enhance more...

Policy Brief: Weaving the Threads of Migration, Sustainable Development and the Pandemic

Review of social protection system in Albania

The report provides an overview of the current national social protection systems, both contributory and non-contributory, and assesses their recent trends and performance with respect to the structure and level of social expenditure, beneficiary...

Fiscal space for financing social protection in Albania

Based on good country practices around the world, the report identifies possible options to create fiscal space as well as the corresponding resource availability in Albania.

Information note: BUSINESS AND DECENT WORK – How enterprises contribute to achieve decent work for all (SDG 8) - MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE...

Uzbekistan - Feedback mechanism on forced labour and other labour rights violations

This promising practice is part of a series, and results from a stocktaking exercise undertaken five years after the launch of the Fair Recruitment Initiative (FRI).

Situation analysis on the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on enterprises and workers in the formal and informal economy in India

To enable evidence-based social dialogue for designing and implementation of policies and programmes responding to COVID-19 pandemic, the ILO-India prioritised situation analysis of enterprises and workers from three States of the country.

Empowering youth

Report: Youth takes the floor - Empowering youths as agents for peace and social cohesion

The “Youth takes the floor” training course was designed, facilitated and delivered by ITC (International Training Centre, Turin, Italy) and DevCurate (Bangkok, Thailand) for 35 youths in the Solomon Islands.

Key principles underlying sanctioning procedures applicable to occupational safety and health violations

This brief is aimed to equip policymakers and lawmakers with an overview of the main guiding principles that should underpin administrative and judicial sanctioning procedures applicable to OSH infractions to ensure that they are effective and fair.

Executive Summary

World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2021

In 2020, an estimated 8.8 per cent of total working hours were lost – the equivalent of the hours worked in one year by 255 million full-time workers. This summary indicator captures the various channels through which the pandemic has affected...