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The Summary Report on Enabling Environment for Sustainable Enterprises in Mozambique 2019

Maternity income protection in Southern and Eastern Africa. From concept to practice

This publication is part of a collaboration of the ILO with the Eastern and Central Africa Social Security Association (ECASSA) to encourage the move from employer liability systems to social insurance based systems and to provide universal and...

Report on the results of the study of the implementation of Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Decree No. 68/2004 concerning the...

The results of the evaluation and survey conducted by the ILO in collaboration with the Ministry of Manpower of the Republic of Indonesia resulted in several recommendations which become one of the reference materials in order to improve the...

Fact sheet

Egypt Fact Sheet: SCORE Pilot Programme

The SCORE pilot training programme began in Egypt in 2018, with a sector selection study that identified the chemical and engineering sectors as sectors with high growth and job creation potential and meet other criteria by SCORE globally. The ILO...

Migrant workers

Save Smart: Financial planner for ASEAN migrant workers

Successful migration starts with setting specific goals, and making plans to achieve these goals.

Migrant workers

Save Smart: Migrant Worker Resource Centre financial education training manual

The Save Smart training manual, and its accompanying Save Smart financial planner, encourage those considering labour migration to think about their financial goals, weigh the benefits and risks of migration, calculate their migration costs, and...

Innovative approaches for the management of labor migration in Asia

This report analyzes labor migration trends in Asia and puts them in the context of demographic and policy trends. It provides an overview of the population trends in different Asian countries and looks at policy settings in several sending and...

Labour mobility and labour market data: A baseline study of APEC economies

This report was prepared for the APEC Labour Mobility Statistics Forum held on 2–3 May 2019 in Viña del Mar, Chile. The report was commissioned by the Department of Jobs and Small Business, Government of Australia, and prepared by the ILO Regional...

Brochure

SCORE Programme in Egypt

Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) is an ILO global programme that improves productivity and working conditions in small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

The ILO Centenary

ILO 45 years in the Pacific 1974-2019

To celebrate the ILO Centenary in 2019, the ILO Office for Pacific Island Countries looks back and reflects on the ILO presence in the Pacific and its work with tripartite and other social partners. This publication is a selective and reflective...

New arrivals at the ILO Knowledge Centre in Bangkok: November 2019

A list of new publications that have just arrived at the ILO Knowledge Centre, Bangkok.

International Journal of Labour Research

The Future of Work: Trade Unions in Transformation

It has become harder for trade unions in both developed and emerging countries to protect the rights of workers and working conditions, as shown not only in the reduction of unionization, but also the fall in the labour share of income in most...

Report

Voluntary Confidential Counselling and HIV Testing for Workers

ILO’s VCT@WORK is saving lives by adopting innovative approaches to reach out to workers in the formal as well as informal economy. The new report, released ahead of the World AIDs Day 2019 , shows that workplace offers immense opportunities of...

Brief

Doing more business and less aid: The journey of a market system development project in Afghanistan

Brochure of NSSF Information Package for Employers and Workers

From Waste to Jobs: Decent work challenges and opportunities in the management of e-waste in Nigeria

Achieving SDGs and ending poverty through Universal Social Protection (Project fact sheet)

The implementation partners (UN DESA and ILO) will build on the methodology of the ILO's Global Flagship Programme on Building Social Protection Floors for All (2016-30) at the country level, combined with a global component to focus on the...

International Labour Review, Vol. 158 (2019), No. 4

Gender and governance of global value chains: Promoting the rights of women workers

Private governance channelled through social compliance programmes and gender initiatives of multinational companies have had limited impact in tackling gender discrimination in global value chains (GVCs). The United Nations Guiding Principles on...

Background Paper No. 1 - GEPR working paper series

The effectiveness of interventions to reduce informality in low- and middle-income countries

Monitoring compliance with international labour standards: The key role of the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions...

Centenary Edition 2019