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Integrated approaches for formalization in Asia and the Pacific

This report highlights why the multi-faceted dimensions of informality demand an integrated approach to formalization, outlines the nature of an integrated approach to employment formalization, reviews the extent that countries in Asia and the Pacific are applying integrated approaches to formalization, and provides examples and an action-oriented outline for advancing integrated approaches to formalization in the region.

Decent Work Country Programme for India 2023 - 2027

This country strategy is led by the ILO and its tripartite constituents. It sets out ILO’s programme in India, which is aligned with the national priorities and the UN 2030 agenda.

Gendering migration pathways from Bangladesh to Jordan and Lebanon: Before and after the COVID-19 pandemic

Promoting the ratification and application of ILO Convention No. 190: Experiences and good practices from Asia and the Pacific

This report has been prepared to support key stakeholders in their efforts to prevent and eliminate violence and harassment in the world of work in Asia and the Pacific.

Promoting decent work in India: October - December 2023

An appraisal of EIIP’s longer-term development impacts

The purpose of this study is to improve understanding of how the project implementation related activities of the Employment Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) generate long-term development impacts which arise out of: (a) the benefits for users and the wider society of the improved assets, and (b) the employment and increased incomes of those employed on projects.

Cooperation and Dialogue on Migration and Mobility – Phase II

Sustainable enterprises

Infographics: Project overview and results

This infographic provides an overview of PSEI project and its impact.

Sustainable growth

FDI and private sector-led local development strategies for sustainable growth and more and better quality jobs

The report is produced by the development cooperation project ‘Promoting Sustainable Enterprises in India’ (PSEI) funded by Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). This study proposes to discuss and recommend policies and actions that may promote economic diversification and employment generation through private sector investments, with a special focus on foreign direct investment (FDI).

Sustainable enterprises

Infographics: Project overview and photo results

This infographic provides an overview of PSEI project and its impact.

Workers’ rights

Innovative approaches to protect the rights of women migrant workers and tackle forced labour: Lessons from the Work in Freedom programme (2013–23)

This brief provides a short summary of the Work in Freedom programme outreach and activities conducted to tackle forced labour and trafficking with the key lessons it generated over the ten-year period (2013-23) of its implementation.

ADBI-OECD-ILO report

Labor migration in Asia: Changing profiles and processes

The report describes labour migration trends and policy needs in Asia after the lifting of strict entry and cross-border controls imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Migrant workers

Comprehensive mapping and assessment of reintegration measures in South Asian Colombo process Member States

This report has been jointly commissioned by ILO and IOM under the Governance of Labour Migration in South and Southeast Asia (GOALS) programme in collaboration with UN-Women and seeks to map out and assess the nature and gaps in the reintegration support provided to returnee migrant workers from five South Asian Colombo Process member States: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Promoting decent work in India: April to June 2023

Youth employment

Technology in public employment services to promote youth employment in Asia and the Pacific

This report provides insights into how public employment services in Asia-Pacific are digitally transforming and how they are using technology to support youth in the labour market.

Youth employment

India - Technology in public employment services to promote youth employment

This country profile on technology in public employment services (PES) for youth is part of the ILO (2023) report on Technology in public employment services to promote youth employment in Asia and the Pacific. The report provides insights into how PES in Asia-Pacific are digitally transforming and how they are using technology to support youth in the labour market.

Labour relations

The social life of industrial disputes: Exploring workers-centred industrial relations in India’s garment labour regime

This report describes the nature of labour relations from a perspective of worker grievances in three garment production clusters of India, namely the National Capital Region, Bengaluru and Tiruppur. It establishes a connection between the evolution of regional labour regimes and the social history of industrial relations and grievances in these three clusters. The report is an important reference to understand the understand differences and commonalities of working and living conditions of garment workers across these locations.

Publication

A Review of Wage Setting through Collective Bargaining

BRICS-ILO Cooperation

An overview of recent collaboration on development cooperation between governments, social partners, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and private partners from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (the BRICS) and the International Labour Organization (ILO).

Summary of lessons Learned, Work in Freedom Programme

This document summarises the lessons learned (Parts 1, 2 & 3) by the Work in Freedom Programme, a ten-year bi-regional programme (2013-2023) that aimed to reduce vulnerability to human trafficking and forced labour among women workers in occupations such as domestic work and garment manufacturing.