Publications

2024

  1. Insights into ILO Formalize Your Business in Côte d'Ivoire, The Gambia and Senegal

    14 March 2024

    Key learnings from trainers and entrepreneurs

  2. Productivity measurement and analysis: A guidance note

    05 March 2024

  3. A 10-question pocket guide to making MSD work for you

    04 March 2024

  4. Digitalise your Business

    28 February 2024

    Digital Strategies for Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

  5. Designing and Implementing Market-led Interventions in Forced Displacement Settings

    28 February 2024

  6. A Rough Guide to Inclusive Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Development

    28 February 2024

  7. Report on the expert advice service and web site January 2023 - December 2023

    28 February 2024

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    EMPLOYMENT Department Newsletter, January/February 2024

    25 January 2024

  9. Promoting gender equality through responsible business conduct: the role of governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations

    04 January 2024

2023

  1. Green Jobs Assessment Model: Sustainable Tourism in Burkina Faso

    19 December 2023

  2. SIYB Update 2023

    14 December 2023

    We are glad to share the 2023 SIYB Update. This year's publication showcases recent SIYB-related activities in 54 different countries plus information on the global SIYB highlights.

  3. Sector systems analysis of textiles and clothing subsector in Ghana

    08 December 2023

  4. Just Transition Finance - Pathways for banking and insurance

    03 December 2023

    Promoting a just transition is essential to achieve broad-based support for ambitious climate action. In this collective effort, financial institutions play a major enabling role. This publication highlights crucial elements, emerging practices and examples of the banking and underwriting activities in promoting a just transition and serves as a guide for banks and insurance companies.

  5. Developing an impact monitoring system for Sida’s guarantee instrument

    30 November 2023

    Credit guarantees can be a powerful instrument to achieve positive development results. This paper summarises findings from case studies, conducted in Guatemala and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and illustrates their contribution to our work co-designing an impact monitoring system for Sweden’s guarantee instrument.

  6. A rough guide to measuring job quality in market systems development: Operational guidance

    30 November 2023

  7. Issue paper on child labour and climate change

    30 November 2023

    This issue paper brings together and reviews existing research on the interplay between climate change and child labour. It is aimed at providing an initial picture of some of the key channels through which climate change and climate change responses are linked to child labour, and the broad implications for policy moving forward.

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    Employment Policy Department Newsletter, Nov/Dec 2023

    24 November 2023

  9. SCORE Training catalogue

    17 November 2023

    SCORE Training helps SMEs to achieve better working conditions and productivity through its wide variety of modules and stands as an aid to compliance.

  10. New frontier or the latest buzzword? Evidence and best practice in entrepreneurship ecosystem development

    15 November 2023

    The study maps out and analyse the global landscape of entrepreneurial ecosystems approaches implemented by different actors in the Global South.

  11. Green Jobs Assessment of Six Economic Sectors in Jordan - Technical Report

    14 November 2023