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Module 1 - A National OSH Framework Addressing Young Workers’ Vulnerabilities

Improving OSH for Young Workers: A Self-Training Package

Module 2 - Strategy and Actions for the Protection of Young Workers

Improving OSH for Young Workers: A Self-Training Package

Module 3 - OSH Management at the Workplace: Addressing Young Workers’ Needs

Improving OSH for Young Workers: A Self-Training Package

Conference Committee on the Application of Standards: Record of Proceedings (ILC 2019)

The Conference Committee on the Application of Standards, a standing tripartite body of the International Labour Conference and an essential component of the ILO’s supervisory system, examines each year the report published by the Committee of...

Appendix 3: Research quality assessment adapted for ILO's research and knowledge management projects and outputs.

Appendix 9: Brief review of research and knowledge management strategies and approaches in the United Nations and international financial...

Research Department Working Paper n°52

Economic and social upgrading in the Philippines’ pineapple supply chain

Despite several decades of steady growth, Mindanao’s tropical agro-food industry and the pineapple supply chain more specifically are characterized by a relatively large proportion of workers being linked to small-scale production and low-skilled,...

Report of the Commission of Inquiry

For national reconciliation and social justice in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Report of the Commission of Inquiry appointed under article 26 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization to examine the observance by the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela of the Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery...

Responsible Business: Key messages from International Instruments

Three instruments have become the key reference points for responsible business: The ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (ILO MNE Declaration), the OECD Guidelines for Multinational...

Report

What Works: Promoting Pathways to Decent Work [Summary]

Research Department Working Paper n°50

Eligibility and participation in unemployment benefit schemes: Evidence from Mauritius

The article explores the determinants of participation in the unemployment benefit system in Mauritius, focusing on the role played by eligibility criteria and take-up

Research Department Working Paper n°51

Employment programs and conflict in Somalia

The notion that employment can contribute to peace is the explicit backdrop to a large number of employment programmes in conflict-affected states. However, there is lack of knowledge on the links between employment programmes and peace and on which...

ILO What Works Research Brief No. 12

Promoting Pathways to Decent Work

New evidence is available on the merits of combining income support with active labour market policies (ALMPs) to protect people during joblessness and promote pathways to decent work. Such a combination, or integrated approach, prevents people from...

ILO What Works Research Brief No. 13

Meeting The Challenges of a Changing World Of Work by Combining Income Support and Active Labour Market Policies

Integrated approaches that combine income support and active labour market policies (ALMPs) can foster opportunities for accessing decent work while protecting people throughout their working-life transitions. Such approaches can take various forms...

ILO What Works Research Brief No. 14

Expanding Access To Unemployment Benefits And Active Support To Cover Informal Workers

Combining income support with active labour market policies (ALMPs) is a viable strategy for helping unemployed people while they look for work. However, access to such programmes in developing and emerging countries (where they exist) tends to be...

ILO What Works Research Brief No. 15

Combating Extreme Poverty by Providing Active Support as Part of a Conditional Cash Transfer Schemes

Integrating active labour market policies (ALMPs) into poverty alleviation programmes can foster employment opportunities while protecting individuals’ incomes from the consequences of a severe recession. Recent research on Uruguay’s response to the...

Studies on Growth with Equity

What Works: Promoting Pathways to Decent Work

This report analyses how income support and ALMPs can come together to tackle a significant set of barriers limiting access to decent work in emerging and developing countries.

Safety and Health at the Heart of the Future of Work

A Compilation of Think Pieces

SafeYouth@Work - Project Results

Building a Generation of safe and healthy workers

SafeYouth@Work

Impact Stories

Building a Generation of safe and healthy workers