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The COVID-19 response: Getting gender equality right for a better future for women at work

This policy brief provides information on how the COVID-19 pandemic affects women and men differently in the world of work and highlights the specific challenges facing women. It provides an overview of the various measures that countries have taken...

The COVID-19 response: Getting gender equality right for a better future for women at work

This policy brief provides information on how the COVID-19 pandemic affects women and men differently in the world of work and highlights the specific challenges facing women. It provides an overview of the various measures that countries have taken...

Mapping of Youth Employment Interventions in Saint Lucia

The present paper was developed as part of the project "Upgrading Saint Lucia’s capacity to provide impactful vocational training for marginalized youth" financed by the India-UN Development Partnership Fund.

COVID-19 and Enterprises Briefing Note [No. 17]

The COVID-19 pandemic has been affecting enterprises of all sizes and types in unprecedented ways. This brief aims to highlight key information resources available on the functioning of enterprises in the crisis, including its impact on enterprises,...

Guide

Market Systems Analysis for Decent Work: A User-friendly Guide

The end-to-end process of a market systems analysis made simple

Guide

Market Systems Analysis for Decent Work: A User-friendly Guide

The end-to-end process of a market systems analysis made simple

Report

Unlocking Opportunities for decent job creation in Lebanon's horticulture sector

A market system analysis of the horticulture sector with a view to promoting livelihoods of Lebanese host communities and Syrian refugees.

How gender biases drive venture capital decision-making: exploring the gender funding gap

COVID- 19

Safe return to work: Guide for employers on COVID-19 prevention

This Guide has been developed by the ILO Bureau for Employers’ Activities (ILO-ACT/EMP) and contains recommendations for health and safety practices and approaches to COVID-19 prevention.The publication aims to provide general guidance and...

Automation, employment, and reshoring: Case studies of the apparel and electronics industries

EIIP Project Brief

Papua New Guinea Project Brief

This project brief describes the Employment-Intensive Recovery and Reconstruction Response (E3R) project to mitigate the impact of a series of 7.5 and a 6.7 magnitude that hit the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, between the 26 of February and 8 of...

Macadamia Market Systems Analysis Shan State, Myanmar

COVID-19 and Enterprises Briefing Note [No. 16]

The COVID-19 pandemic has been affecting enterprises of all sizes and types in unprecedented ways. This brief aims to highlight key information resources available on the functioning of enterprises in the crisis, including its impact on enterprises,...

Factsheet

Beyond contagion or starvation: Giving domestic workers another way forward

In the wake of COVID-19, governments around the world have called on people to take one most important action: to stay home. But for many workers, staying home has meant losing their jobs, or worse still, losing their livelihoods.

Guidance

COVID-19 - Job creation through employment intensive public works programmes

This note was developed by the ILO's Employment-Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) to promote the design and implementation of short-term emergency employment programmes and longer term employment-intensive public works schemes to create jobs and...

ILO Technical brief

Rapid Diagnostics for Assessing the Country Level Impact of COVID-19 on the Economy and Labour Market - Guidelines

These guidelines were developed by the ILO's Employment, Labour Markets and Youth Branch (EMPLAB) to support countries, through ILO employment specialists and Country Offices, undertake rapid diagnostics to assess the impact of the COVID-19 crisis...

ILO’s response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on workers and enterprises: What evaluative lessons can be drawn from the ILO’s past...

i-eval IN-FOCUS Internal learning series, Issue no. 2

Measurement, awareness-raising and policy engagement project: MAP16

Brief

Can development results last a decade? A sustainability assessment of an ILO enterprise development project in Sri Lanka

Full report

The Enter-Growth Programme: A decade on