Employment promotion

From crisis to recovery - ILO tools and good practices

Employment intensive programmes

• ASISTDOC: The ILO's Employment Intensive Investment Programme database on labour-based technologies and local level planning
  • French • Spanish
  ILO
• Contractor’s Handbook for labour-based road works (pdf 1.81 MB)
  ILO, 2004
• The Labour-based Technology Source Book: A Catalogue of Key Publications (pdf 3.15 MB)
  ILO, 2002
• Good labour policies and practices in employment intensive programmes : quick overviews from the guide : Employment-intensive infrastructure programmes : labour policies and practices (pdf 14 MB) • French (pdf 2.3 MB) • Spanish (pdf 3.8 MB)
  ILO, 2000
• Decent working conditions in labour-based programmes : a hands-on development strategy (pdf 1 MB) • Spanish (pdf 829 KB)
  ILO, 2000
• Employment-Intensive Infrastructure Programmes: capacity building for contracting in the construction sector (pdf 2.87 MB) • French (pdf 7 MB) • Spanish (pdf 64 MB)
  P. Bentall, A. Beusch, J. de Veen, ILO, 1999

Local economic development

• Nurturing the growth of small enterprises : a brief overview to policies, laws and regulations that maximise small enterprise development and employment growth (pdf 468 KB)
  S. White, ILO, 2001
• Organisation, negotiation and contracting in development programmes and projects : a study of current practice the community level (pdf 3.1 MB)
  P. Oakley, ILO, 2001
• The Urban material source book : a guide for community-managed and labour-based upgrading of urban low-income settlements (pdf 113 KB)
  G. Simba, J. Fransen, ILO, 2000
• Micro finance for self-employment in industrialized countries : good practice guide (pdf 276 KB)
  ILO, 2003
• Community contracts in urban infrastructure works : practical lessons from experience (pdf 19 MB) • French (pdf 3 MB)
  J. Tournée, W. van Esch, ILO, 2001
• Local economic development for employment generation, peace and security : approaches, tools, and good practices in the Philippines (pdf 2.83 MB)
  ILO, 2007

Lessons learned from previous crises

• Labour Market Policies and Poverty Reduction Strategies in Recovery from the Asian Crisis (pdf 2.4 MB)
  ILO, 2002
• The Asian Financial Crisis: The Challenge of Social Policy (pdf 3 MB) • French (pdf 1.5 MB) • Spanish (pdf 1.5 MB)
  E. Lee, ILO, 1998

Other solutions

• Public Employment Services responses to the global economic crisis (pdf 184 KB), EMP/SKILLS, ILO, 13 November 2009
  • Français (pdf 181 KB) •  Español (pdf 185 KB)
• A guide to worker displacement : some tools for reducing the impact on workers, communities and enterprises (pdf 412 KB)
  G. B. Hansen, ILO, 2002
• ILO generic crisis response modules - Module 2 : Financial and economic downturns(pdf 709.72 KB) • French (pdf 862.49 KB) • Spanish (pdf 677.22 KB)
  ILO, 2002

Employment and labour market policies

Job creation

Skills development

Work reorganization