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Handbook

Eliminating Forced Labour: Handbook for Parliamentarians

This handbook, co-published with the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), aims to help parliamentarians to make their contribution to global efforts to effectively combat the scourge of forced labour, a scourge still affecting 25 million people globally.

International Labour Standards

Social Dialogue, Collective Bargaining and Responsible Business Conduct: Promoting the Strategic Use of the International Instruments for...

The aim of this report is to map and analyse the various International Instruments to promote social dialogue, collective bargaining and responsible business conduct to address the main challenges raised by the ILO Resolution concerning Decent Work...

Collaborating to promote labour rights in Qatar’s hospitality sector

Convened by the Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs, ILO, and the Institute for Human Rights and Business the Working group for sustainable growth and decent work in Qatar’s hospitality is multi-stakeholder forum, open...

Trade Union Movement

Trade Unions in the Balance

On the occasion of the ILO Centenary celebration, the Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ILO-ACTRAV) commissioned a research on the current state of the unions in the world. The research conducts by Professor Visser explores developments in union...

Market assessment, OSH Risk assessment and business case analysis on occupational safety and health in the Myanmar garment sector

The VZF team conducted a comprehensive mapping of the entire garment value chain, an OSH Risk Assessment and a study on a ‘business case for OSH’, aiming to frame interventions from the perspective of cost-effectiveness and market-based incentives...

Quick Facts - Consolidating and disseminating efforts to combat forced labor in Brazil and Peru - Joint final independent evaluation

Promoting Decent Work in the Rural Economy Lessons from Zimbabwe (2008-2018)

This paper, a desk review, presents a documentation of ILO interventions in Zimbabwe’s rural economy during the period 2008–18 that also extracts lessons learnt.

National Profile on Occupational Health and Safety 2013/2014 - Namibia

The profile is an inventory of all the tools and resources available in the country to manage OSH, the level of performance of these resources; and the description of the magnitude of the current situation and trends in terms of occupational...

Un siglo de la jornada de 8 horas: un conquista centenaria por la soberanía del tiempo.

Tools and Guidelines for Watershed Management in the South-Western Region of Sri Lanka for Increased Climate Resilience

This manual presents tools and guidelines for watershed management, specifically formulated for the local context. It was created to aid local government officers and other land user groups to incorporate better land use management practices in...

Case Brief: CIF Vie

The West African Confederation of Financial Institutions is a regional grouping of financial cooperatives and microfinance institutions. The confederation created the insurance company CIF Vie to provide life insurance products for its member...

Social Action Budget Brief 2019 - Mozambique (ILO, UNICEF)

The publication analyses budget allocations, trends and fiscal space available for non-contributory social protection in Mozambique, raising several key aspects for policy makers consideration.

Tool for the Assessment of Bilateral Labour Migration Agreements Pilot-tested in the African region

The objective of the assessment tool is to support governments, regional economic communities, and associated Member States and partners, including workers’ and employers’ organizations, in improving the effectiveness of BLMAs, to the benefit of...

Policy Brief

Towards Universal Social Security for the Elderly in Mozambique

In Mozambique, social assistance for the elderly is a right enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic. Mozambique currently has 1.25 million elderly people, which corresponds to 4.5% of the population. Although assistance during old-age is a...

ILO Decent Work interventions in global supply chains - A synthesis review on lessons learned; what works and why, 2010-2019

Independent high-level evaluation of the ILO’s programme of work in four selected member countries of the Southern African Development...

Philippines labour inspectorate

Building the capacity of the Philippines labour inspectorate: Final project fact sheet

The Philippines labour inspectorate system faces a number of challenges in providing labour inspection services to the country’s 945,000 registered establishments, covering around 7.8 million workers. A 2009 ILO Technical Audit of the Philippines...

Think.COOP - an orientation on the cooperative business model - Facilitator's Guide

Think.COOP is a low-cost, easy to use tool for those interested in establishing or joining a cooperative. It draws on technical content from existing materials from different ILO cooperative training tools on the basics of cooperatives. It also uses...

Fail, recalibrate, adapt, achieve: how Yapasa used the market systems approach to create opportunities for Zambia's rural youth

Fail, recalibrate, adapt, achieve: how Yapasa used the market systems approach to create opportunities for Zambia's rural youth