Publications

December 2007

  1. Rooting out child labour from cocoa farms - Paper No. 3 - Sharing experiences

    01 December 2007

    Paper No. 3 of four papers synthesizing the knowledge and experiences acquired from the ILO-IPEC project "West African Cocoa and Commercial Agriculture Project to Combat Hazardous and Exploitive Child Labour" (WACAP), which was implemented in Cameroon,Côte d¿Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria from 2002 to 2006. This paper summarizes the experiences, outcomes and lessons learned from implementing WACAP in the five countries. While it highlights many emerging successful strategies,

  2. Rooting out child labour from cocoa farms - Paper No. 2 - Safety and health hazards

    01 December 2007

    Paper No.2 of four papers synthesizing the knowledge and experiences acquired from the ILO-IPEC project "West African Cocoa and Commercial Agriculture Project to Combat Hazardous and Exploitive Child Labour" (WACAP), which was implemented in Cameroon,Côte d¿Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria from 2002 to 2006. This paper summarizes the finding of country studies on the safety and health situations ofchildren working in cocoa farming in the countries covered by the project.

  3. Rooting out child labour from cocoa farms - Paper No. 1 - A synthesis report of five rapid assessments

    01 December 2007

    Paper No. 1 of four papers synthesizing the knowledge and experiences acquired from the ILO-IPEC project "West African Cocoa and Commercial Agriculture Project to Combat Hazardous and Exploitive Child Labour" (WACAP), which was implemented in Cameroon, Côte d¿Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria from 2002 to 2006. This report describes the findings of five country-level rapid assessments on the situation of child labourers in agriculture in cocoa growing and other crops.

October 2007

  1. Zimbabwe National Strategic Framework for the Private Sector Response to HIV and AIDS (2007 - 2010)

    24 October 2007

    This strategic framework which was developed by the key stakeholders in the private sector, provides a platform through which organisations can establish and support partnerships which promote a more concerted and intensified response to HIV and AIDS.

  2. Public Policy and Trade Disputes in the Public Service - Need for policy Coherence

    09 October 2007

    The policy framework for the employment relationship and hence for dispute resolution is, in all the countries, derived from specific labour codes that outline organizational rights and obligations of employers and workers, generally in both the private and public sectors.7 In this context the thrust of public policy has been towards a common approach to the management of trade disputes, particularly in the private sector. The policy approach in the public service is fundamentally different in several countries, because in addition to the general labour code in each country, the nature and scope of the employment relationship are elaborated in legislation specifically made for the public service.

July 2007

  1. United Nations Development Assistance Framework for the Republic of Zambia 2 0 0 7 - 2 0 1 0

    14 July 2007

    The purpose of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) is to provide a comprehensive framework and approach through which the United Nations will collaborate with the Government of Zambia and channel its combined resources to Zambia during 2007-2010.

  2. Prevention and Reintegration of Children Involved in Armed Conflict: An Inter-Regional Programme (Mid Term Evaluation Summary)

    01 July 2007

    Project INT/03/52/USA

June 2007

  1. The socio-economic integration of Mozambican youth into the urban labour market : the case of Maputo

    01 June 2007

May 2007

  1. Local Economic Development in Mozambique : Economic and social needs are one

    01 May 2007

    LED Story No. 4

April 2007

  1. Success Africa II

    01 April 2007

    Sucess Africa II brings together 38 cases of successful activities to promote employment generation and other aspects of decent work as a means of improving people's lives.

  2. ILO ACTIVITIES IN AFRICA 2004–2006

    01 April 2007

    Report of the Director-General, Eleventh African Regional Meeting Addis Ababa, April 2007

  3. The Decent Work Agenda in Africa, 2007-2015

    01 April 2007

    Report of the Director-General, Eleventh African Regional Meeting Addis Ababa, April 2007

March 2007

  1. Empower rural women - end poverty and hunger: the potential of African cooperatives. Initiatives in Eastern and Southern Africa

    02 March 2007

    This leaflet provides an overview of how cooperatives can help to bridge gender gaps for positive development and poverty-reduction outcomes, and of possible action points for unleashing the potential of cooperatives based on examples from initiatives in Eastern and Southern Africa.

  2. Empower rural women - end poverty and hunger: the potential of African cooperatives. Initiatives in Eastern and Southern Africa

    02 March 2007

    This leaflet provides an overview of how cooperatives can help to bridge gender gaps for positive development and poverty-reduction outcomes, and of possible action points for unleashing the potential of cooperatives based on examples from initiatives in Eastern and Southern Africa.

December 2006

  1. Employment Opportunities and Working Conditions of Rural and Peri Urban Youth in Liberia

    01 December 2006

    This study is commissioned by United Nations Development Programme-Liberia (UNDP) and the International Labour Office -Liberia (ILO). The UNDP-Liberia’s Early Recovery Cluster has income generation, job creation and skills development for youth as one of its three focus areas. This study will inform UNDP’s planning and implementing of strategic interventions through a community driven development approach within this area. The study will also inform ILO country programming in Liberia and help formulating a concrete action plan as part of Key Initiative 2 under LEEP/LEAP on skills training (see National Employment Strategy for Decent Work below). In addition, for the ILO, this study is part of a wider concern to provide information and undertake analyses of the status of rural youth employment in Africa.

September 2006

  1. Increased application of labour-based methods through appropriate engineering standards (Final Evaluation Summary)

    01 September 2006

    Projects INT/01/03/UKM, ZIM/02/01/DAN and LES/03/01/LES

July 2006

  1. Baseline Study : Forced Labour and Human Trafficking in Kwara, Kano, Cross River and Lagos States in Nigeria

    18 July 2006

    The baseline study in the four states was part of a larger research project initiated by the Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour and Trafficking (SAP-FL) of ILO¬DECLARATION. The overall objective of the study was to generate multi-varied baseline data on forced labour and trafficking in persons. The data generated included the level or prevalence of forced labour and human trafficking in the four pilot states, their root causes and the cultural perceptions and attitudes of the rural and urban community members toward migration-motivated forced labour and human trafficking. Through the data analysis, an understanding of the nature, mechanisms and trends in human trafficking and forced labour was developed. In addition, the study sought to examine, analyse and explain how existing law and policies regulating migration and trafficking influence the movement of employment¬motivated migrants.

  2. ILO Proposed Strategies for Combating Trafficking in Persons and Forced Labour Through Nigeria's Poverty Reduction scheme(Needs and Seeds)

    12 July 2006

    This study seeks to deterimine and propose ways of linking anti-human trafficking and forced labour measures in general, and the Action Programme against Forced Labour and Trafficking in West Africa in Particular, with the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (Needs) at the federal level and the State Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (SEEDS) at the state level in four pilot states of Kano, Kwara, Lagos and Cross River States.

  3. Mobilizing Action on the Protection of Domestic Workers from Forced Labour and Trafficking (Final Evaluation Summary)

    01 July 2006

    Project RAS/03/53/UKM

  4. ILO's Action Programme Against Forced Labour and Trafficking in West Africa (PATWA) (Final Evaluation Summary)

    01 July 2006

    Project RAF/03/51/UKM