Resources on Rural economy
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Publication
International Year of Forests 2011: What about the labour aspects of forestry?
16 August 2011
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Publication
Analysing the employment impact of public investment and sectoral policies - The DySAM methodology
01 August 2011
This paper presents the DySAM, a diagnostic tool which helps understand the employment impact of infrastructure investment, but also other public policies. The paper explains its functioning, purpose and applicability also showing findings of country studies.
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Publication
ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work
01 July 2011
A code providing practical guidance to policy-makers, employers’ and workers’ organizations, and other social partners on formulating and implementing appropriate workplace policy, prevention and care programmes.
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Publication
Guidelines for Combating Child Labour Among Indigenous and Tribal Peoples (ITPs)
01 July 2011
Guidelines to combat child labour among ITPs, which meet the specific needs of ITPs through a rights-based approach.
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Publication
The ILO’s Rural Employment and Decent Work Programme
30 June 2011
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Publication
Unlocking indigenous peoples’ potential for sustainable rural development
30 June 2011
Key issues and policy options to unlock the potential for sustainable rural development among indigenous and tribal peoples.
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Event
ILO and FAO side event on "Vulnerable groups and pesticides exposure: Joining forces to reduce hazardous child labour in agriculture"
This meeting aims to draw attention towards the linkage between chemicals exposure and hazardous child labour. This side event is being organized during the next Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention. The Rotterdam Convention promotes shared responsibility and cooperative efforts among Parties in the international trade of certain hazardous chemicals in order to protect human health and the environment from potential harm; and contributes to the environmentally sound use of those hazardous chemicals, by facilitating information exchange about their characteristics, by providing for a national decision-making process on their import and export and by disseminating these decisions to Parties.
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Book
The Role of Collective Bargaining in the Global Economy: Negotiating for Social Justice
30 May 2011
This book looks at the role that collective bargaining plays in ensuring that workers are able to obtain a fair share of the benefits arising from participation in the global economy and in providing a measure of security against the risk to employment and wages.
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Publication
Rural Policy Briefs: Labour Migration Governance for Rural Development
16 March 2011
Migration provides many poor rural households with a livelihood strategy. However, it can also disrupt local employment, undermine family and community cohesion and engender dangerous and exploitative working conditions.
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Publication
Skills development, employment services and local economic recovery for the construction sector (Final Evaluation Evaluation Summary)
16 March 2011
Project LEB/07/03/ITA - Evaluation consultant: Wolfgang Schwegler-Rohmeis and Khalil Asmar