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  1. Publication

    A reference guide to the structure and governance of Employer and Business Membership Organizations

    24 February 2022

    This reference guide is a companion resource to the Onboarding handbook for board members of small employer and business membership organizations with the aim of providing specific examples and best practices of EBMO structures and governance around the globe. It is hoped that these insights will support EBMO to benchmark their own performance in these areas with a view to improving systems of governance and process efficiencies. It is anticipated that the resource will also be of value to EBMOs member companies with operations overseas and an interest in understanding and connecting with national or sectoral EBMOs in these locations. around three main elements: the workforce; the workspace; and wellbeing. We hope this will help employer and business membership organizations as well as individual businesses, achieving stronger recoveries, greater resilience and growth.

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    Event

    Global Forum for a Human-centred Recovery

    Organized by the ILO from 22-24 February, the Global Forum for a Human-centred Recovery brought together online heads of State and Government, heads of international organizations and multilateral development banks, and employers’ and workers’ leaders from around the world to propose concrete actions and strengthen the international community’s response to the COVID-19 crisis.

  3. News

    ILO in partnership with the Federation for Egyptian Industries (FEI) promotes Gender Responsive Corporate Social Responsibility in Egypt.

    13 February 2022

    The ILO's Bureau for Employers' Activities (ACT/EMP) has been supporting the FEI, through its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Unit, to raise awareness of CSR among Egyptian companies.

  4. Publication

    How the COVID-19 pandemic is changing business: A Literature Review

    11 January 2022

    To better support our constituents, we need to understand the on-going changes caused by Covid -19. This paper is structured around three main elements: the workforce; the workspace; and wellbeing. We hope this will help employer and business membership organizations as well as individual businesses, achieving stronger recoveries, greater resilience and growth.

  5. News

    ILO in partnership with the Federation for Egyptian Industries (FEI) launches the 4th Cycle of the Human Resources & Gender Academy

    20 December 2021

    The ILO Bureau for Employers’ Activities (ACT/EMP) supported the development of the Human Resources and Gender Academy as a new service of the Federation of Egyptian Industries, through its Women in Business Unit (WiB).

  6. Publication

    The relations between Chambers of Commerce and Industry (CCIS) and Employers' and Business Membership Organizations (EBMOS) in OCDE countries

    08 December 2021

    The difference in the institutional nature of CCIS has an impact on the relationships with EBMO's particularly in the case of CCIS with compulsory membership engage in representation of labour matters.

  7. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

    DRIVERS OF STRONG BUSINESS PERFORMANCE. An analysis of SMEs in selected emerging economies.

    01 December 2021

    This evidence based report identifies micro and macro factors for SME's sucess on eight emerging-market economies: Egypt, Vietnam, Turkey, Colombia, Indonesia, Tunisia, Belarus, and Peru.

  8. Publication

    Driving up Resilience. A Guide for Employer and Business Membership Organizations

    29 November 2021

    The guide aims to support EBMOs seeking to increase their resilience. For our audience, composed of EBMOs’ representatives, reading this work can be taken as an exercise to 1) understand crises’ resilience and identify their gaps towards this goal, 2) learn and be inspired from other EBMOs around the world, and 3) improve their own resilience capacities.

  9. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

    INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FACTORS FOR SME SUCCESS. What EBMOs should know to promote more competitive enterprises.

    25 November 2021

    The Covid-19 crisis revealed that many SMEs were not prepared to deal with such a crisis. The key to resilience will be to understand the main internal characteristics of successful SMEs and also to look at the external success factors associated with the global business environment in order to design and implement public policy aimed at promoting the creation of business development services or public policies in favour of SME development. With this research, the ILO Bureau for Employers' Activities aims to contribute to this reflection.

  10. 25 November - 11 December

    109th Session of the International Labour Conference