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Health sector investment impacts on employment and economic growth: A panel ARDL analysis in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU)

ILO Working paper 86

Negotiations by workers in the informal economy

This paper provides empirical evidence from Africa, Asia and the Americas on negotiations and collective bargaining by workers in the informal economy.

ILO Working paper 86

Negotiations by workers in the informal economy (epub)

This paper provides empirical evidence from Africa, Asia and the Americas on negotiations and collective bargaining by workers in the informal economy.

ILO Working paper 86

Negotiations by workers in the informal economy (mobi)

This paper provides empirical evidence from Africa, Asia and the Americas on negotiations and collective bargaining by workers in the informal economy.

The platform Monentreprise.bj in Bénin

This document is part of a series of case studies by the Enterprises Department of the ILO. Each case study presents one or several approaches that contribute to enterprise formalization across the world.

Case Study: Update on improving apprenticeship in the informal economy in Benin

In Benin, access to formal technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is conditional on finishing the second year of secondary school, equivalent to completing nine years of education. However, among 5- to 17-year-olds, the median years in education is four. As a result, only 5 per cent of secondary age youth are in TVET, totalling around 50,000 young people.

Ten Year Action Plan on the Eradication of Child Labour, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery In Africa (2020-2030): Agenda 2063-SDG Target 8.7

The Action Plan seeks to contribute to and support the acceleration of progress towards the achievement of the Agenda 2063 – SDG 8.7 target. This involves ending child labour by 2025 and forced labour, human trafficking and modern slavery by 2030. The target population are children, women and men who are victims of or vulnerable to the forms of exploitation addressed by the Agenda 2063 - SDG 8.7 target.

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Study on quality apprenticeships in five West Africa countries: Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Niger and Togo

Exploring the potential for skills partnerships on migration in West Africa and Sahel

Sub-regional study on skills systems and policies in place, migration flows and patterns, links between training and migration policies, and collaboration on skills anticipation, development and recognition within the sub-region.

Responding to the Socio-Economic Impact of COVID-19 in West Africa: A Trade Union Perspective

This study was commissioned by the Organisation of Trade Unions in West Africa with financial support from the International Labour Organisation Country Office in Abuja Nigeria. The study cover 7 countries- Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, and Togo, and the trade union centres of these countries.

Work for Youth (W4Y) - (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project: GLO/11/01/MCF - Evaluation Consultants: Anthony Dewees, Marie-Laure Talbot, Tony Powers

Strategic HIV/AIDS Response in Enterprises (SHARE): Public-Private Partnership

The ILO’s Strategic HIV/AIDS Response in Enterprises (SHARE) taps into the resources of the public and private sectors for the benefit of workers, their families, and enterprises – not to mention national economies. SHARE’s principal objectives are to help overcome HIV employment-related discrimination and to prevent HIV by reducing risky behaviours among workers in selected economic sectors, especially those that might be more vulnerable to HIV due to working and related living conditions.

Irish Aid Phase II: Testing methodologies to support informal economy workers and small producers to combat hazardous child labour in their own sectors (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project GLO/13/57/IRL - Evaluation consultant: João de Azevedo (team-leader); National Evaluators: Stella Dzator (Ghana); Affo Daoudou Hamissou (Benin)

Independent evaluation of the ILO's strategies on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, Volume I Full Report - Rev. Ed. (2015)

Covering the period from 2008 to 2014, this evaluation reviews ILO’s strategy to advance Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (FPRW), namely: the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining is widely known and exercised (Outcome 14); forced labour is eliminated (Outcome 15); child labour is eliminated, with priority to the worst forms of child labour (Outcome 16); and discrimination in employment and occupation is eliminated (Outcome 17). The case studies are contained in Volume II (online only).

The twin challenges of child labour and educational marginalisation in the ECOWAS region - An overview

As part of the efforts to address the present urgent situation, Governments and regional institutions have developed the ECOWAS Child Policy and the accompanying Strategic Plan of Action for the ECOWAS Child Policy, as well as the West Africa Regional Action Plan to Eliminate Child Labour (and especially its Worst Forms) and the Accra Declaration of the ECOWAS-ILO Symposium on West Africa Regional Action Plan which signal the national intent to eliminate child labour and provide an essential framework for efforts to achieve this goal. This Report was produced to help translate these plans into concrete actions. It is specifically aimed at building the evidence base necessary for the design and targeting of specific interventions against child labour. It brings together the most recent available information from a variety of national household surveys to provide a detailed picture of child labour and the related challenge of educational marginalisation in the ECOWAS region.

Eliminating the W worst forms of child labour in West Africa and strengthening sub-regional cooperation through ECOWAS I and II – (Final Evaluation Summary)

Projects: RAF/09/51/USA, RAF/10/53/USA

Work4Youth Publications

Labour market transitions of young women and men in sub-Saharan Africa

This report presents the results of the School-to-work transition surveys (SWTS) implemented in eight sub-Saharan African countries – Benin, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, the United Republic of Tanzania, Togo, Uganda and Zambia – in 2012 or 2013. Results show that unemployment of young people remains a matter of concern, but that issues relating to the quality of work available to young people are of even greater relevance to the design and implementation of policy interventions.

Learning from Catalyst of Rural Transformation

This publication reviews 8 cases of "Catalyst" of rural transformation from different countries. It extracts lessons that remind us of the economic and development potential of rural areas, and most important, the central role of rural men and women, young people, indigenous populations and other groups to unleash that potential.

Learning from Catalyst of Rural Transformation

This publication reviews 8 cases of "Catalyst" of rural transformation from different countries. It extracts lessons that remind us of the economic and development potential of rural areas, and most important, the central role of rural men and women, young people, indigenous populations and other groups to unleash that potential.

Chapter 8: Songaï, Benin

Songhaï is an NGO empowering rural African communities, particularly farmers, youth, and women, by building their capacities to become agricultural, agribusiness, and handicraft entrepreneurs.