Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV)
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Interview
Strategic foresight: How are trade unions adapting to transformations in the world of work?
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Interview
How to enhance effective participation of trade unions in the ILO Development cooperation?
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Interview
How Trade Unions influenced their countries commitment on achieving the SDGs?
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Video
What is the role of ACTRAV and ACT/EMP at the ILC?
News and articles
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TOR - Needs-Assessment Study for Platform Workers' Unions in India
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ILO in action in the Philippines
Helping workers' organizations protect the vulnerable and promote compliance
Ongoing and upcoming events
Videos
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Interview
Strategic foresight: How are trade unions adapting to transformations in the world of work?
![Grayson Koyi](/sites/default/files/styles/cards_3_desktop/public/2024-08/Grayson%20Koyi.png.webp?itok=4OT035ha)
Interview
How to enhance effective participation of trade unions in the ILO Development cooperation?
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Interview
How Trade Unions influenced their countries commitment on achieving the SDGs?
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Workers' Delegates provide their views on the key items on the agenda of the 112th Session of the ILC
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Interview
New Social Contract: The Workers' Perspective (Zimbabwe)
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Video
What is the role of ACTRAV and ACT/EMP at the ILC?
International Journal of Labour Research
Launched in 2009, the International Journal of Labour Research (IJLR) is the flagship publication of the ILO’s Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV).
Key resources
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Publication
Workers' organizations and development cooperation - A Workers’ guide to effective participation in ILO development cooperation
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Trade union engagements on the SDGs and union revitalization in five Asian countries
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Using foresight to think and act upon an uncertain future world of work
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Book
African Trade Unions and the Future of Work Responses, Challenges and Opportunities
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ILO Working paper 106
Are platform workers willing to unionize? Exploring survey evidence from 14 European countries
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International Journal of Labour Research
A new social contract: achieving social justice in an era of accelerating change
Publications
Publication
Workers' organizations and development cooperation - A Workers’ guide to effective participation in ILO development cooperation
Working Paper 119
Trade union engagements on the SDGs and union revitalization in five Asian countries
ILO Brief
Emerging Good Practices of Trade Union Engagement in the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework
Key areas of Work
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Trade Unions as Actors for Change
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ACTRAV Development Cooperation
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Workers' Group of the Governing Body
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The ACTRAV-Turin Labour Education Programme
The Bureau for Workers ‘Activities (ACTRAV) is the main link between the International Labour Office and the world of work through one of its constituents: workers’ organizations.
ACTRAV ensures that the concerns and interests of workers’ organizations are taken into consideration in the policy development and activities of the International Labour Office, both at Headquarter and in the Field.
Read more about ACTRAV