Instructional material

ILO Guide for Value Chain Analysis and Upgrading

01 January 2006

This Guide for Value Chain Analysis and Upgrading is written for the ILO enterprise specialists and the consultants who work in developing countries and are engaged in upgrading projects. It is also written for the ILO constituents, such as worker and employer organisations and government agencies. The purpose of the guide is to look at how to practically carry out value chain analysis, find upgrading solutions and implement them, using an ILO approach towards upgrading.

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Poverty reduction through small enterprises: Emerging consensus, unresolved issues and ILO activities

01 January 2006

SEED Working Paper No. 75

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Short overview of the ILO Helpdesk for Business services

01 January 2006

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Direct employment in multinational enterprises : trends and implications

01 January 2006

Multinational Enterprises Programme Working Paper No. 101

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Guidelines on the Formation of Self Help Groups for Families of Working Children

01 January 2006

These guidelines on the formation of Self Help Groups explain what Self Help Groups are, and how they can be promoted. They give guidance on how to organise the groups, how to set up the administrative procedures and how to decide on the internal regulations.

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FAMOS Check Guide and Methods

01 January 2006

This FAMOS Guide aims to facilitate business support agencies, financial institutions and government departments to have a fresh look – and a systematic assessment – of the extent to which they target and serve women entrepreneurs, their needs and their potentialities.

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Organizing out of poverty: stories from the grassroots: How the SYNDICOOP approach has worked in East Africa

01 January 2006

Co-operative College Paper 8

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Multinational enterprises in the plantation sector: Labour relations, employment, working conditions and welfare facilities,Working Paper No. 93

01 January 2006

The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the current situation in light of the principles of the MNE Declaration. The paper is based on the findings of research undertaken by an ILO team that visited Uganda at the beginning of 2003.

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Direct employment in multinational enterprises: Trends and implications, MULTI Working Paper No. 101

01 January 2006

This paper aims to examine the recent trends from a long-term perspective, and by utilizing both financial and employment data, provide a static as well as dynamic picture of the employment situation of global production undertaken by MNEs.The paper is primarily devoted to the examination of the quantitative picture of employment in MNEs. Equally relevant and important is the qualitative aspect of employment. Nonetheless, besides wage data, the lack of comprehensive and systematic data specific to MNEs on aspects such as conditions of work, social protection and industrial relations, has precluded an in-depth examination of the qualitative aspects in this paper.

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Youth reinventing co-operatives : young perspectives on the international co-operative movement

31 December 2005

The British Columbia Institute for Co-operative Studies (BCICS), in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA), and the Canadian Co-operative Association (CCA) have prepared a book demonstrating how young people around the world use co-operatives to meet their economic and social needs.