Publications

  1. Guide to Recommendation No.189 on Job Creation in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

    27 June 2022

    This Guide to the Recommendation No. 189 provides key elements to support the implementation of policies and strategies to promote decent and sustainable job creation in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs).

  2. The role of social protection and employment promotion as viewed by the young people of Uzbekistan

    25 May 2022

    Uzbekistan’s large young population can make a significant contribution to the country’s ambitious development plans. This report presents perception of more than 8,000 young people about social protection and employment promotion programmes which can be useful pointers to policy makers and development partners when designing such programmes.

  3. Building Trust in Cotton Fields: The ILO’s engagement in Uzbekistan

    18 May 2022

  4. 2021 third-party monitoring of child labour and forced labour during the cotton harvest in Uzbekistan

    28 April 2022

  5. Enabling Environment for Sustainable Enterprises (EESE) in fragile contexts

    25 April 2022

    In the wake of conflict or disaster, decent work is often considered as a secondary priority, when it can be the key to resolving many of the drivers of conflict and can be instrumental to restoring peace and resilience. Employment and self-employment enable women and men affected by conflict and disaster to establish sustainable livelihoods; support to the private sector is thus essential to facilitate inclusive recovery. Building on the work carried out by the Enabling Environment for Sustainable Enterprises (EESE) team and the Coordination and Support Unit for Peace and Resilience (CSPR), this publication sets out a series of guidelines for conducting EESE in fragile, conflict-affected, and disaster-prone contexts, considering both the conditions for improving the enabling environment and the process to conduct assessment.

  6. Newsletter #1 -March 2022

    21 April 2022

  7. Coordination between employment and social services: European countries

    19 April 2022

    Partnerships for more coherent and coordinated delivery of employment and social protection vary from lose occasional co-operation through informal arrangements to unified organisational frameworks involving pooling of resources and shared use of premises, and in some cases full coordination or integration of service delivery.

  8. Gender Wage Gap in Georgia

    12 April 2022

    Research about the reasons for the significant gender pay gap and development of a methodology for labour cost assessment and policy recommendations to improve compliance of Georgian legislation and policy with the Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951, No. 100.

  9. Gender Wage Gap in Georgia (in the Georgian language)

    12 April 2022

    Research on the reasons underlying the significant gender pay gap and development of the Labour Cost Assessment Methodology and policy recommendations to improve compliance with ILO Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 No. 100.

  10. Post Covid-19 EESE assessment of MSME trends and policies in Armenia

    04 March 2022

    Republican Union of Employers of Armenia (RUEA), in line with its mandate to contribute to the development of a conducive environment for enterprises in Armenia, has called upon the ILO to assist the organization to assess the follow up analyses of the business environment in the country focusing on two specific topics – taxation system in Armenia, and Export, FDI and FDI-SME linkages.