Rural-Related Tools to stimulate employment and decent work in rural areas
Descriptive leaflets on over 50 ready-to-use tools to stimulate employment and decent work in rural areas, including enterprise and employment support, international labour standards, social protection, social dialogue, and cross-cutting themes, such as youth and gender.
Themes
Crisis
- ILO’s Role in Conflict and Disaster Settings
- Local Economic Recovery in Post-Conflict Guidelines
- Socio-Economic Reintegration of Ex-Combatants Guidelines
- The Livelihood Assessment Toolkit
Employment-Intensive Investment
Enterprises
- Desarrollo Económico Local y Empleo: Material Para Promotores
- Gender Mainstreaming in Local Economic Development Strategies: A Guide
- Know About Business (KAB)
- Let’s Organize! A SYNDICOOP Handbook for Trade Unions and Cooperatives about Organizing Workers in the Informal Economy
- Local Development and Decent Work Resource Kit
- Local Economic Development Sensitizing Package
- MATCOM – Training for the Management of Cooperatives
- My.COOP – Managing your Agricultural Cooperative
- Operational Guide to Local value-Chain Development
- Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB family of tools)
- Value-Chain Development for Decent Work
Skills and Career Guidance
- Career Guidance: a Resource Book for Low and Middle-Income Countries
- Guiding youth Careers: Handbook for Those who Help Young Job-seekers
- Minute Guide for Young Job-seekers
- Training for Rural Economic Empowerment (TREE)
Social Finance
- Business Group Formation: Empowering Women and Men in Developing Communities; Trainers’ Manual
- Financial Education: Trainers’ Manual
- Rural Microfinance
- Village Banking and the Ledger Guide
Social Protection
- Ergonomic Checkpoints in Agriculture
- Extending Social Security to All: a Guide through Challenges and Options
- Health, Safety and Environment : A Series of Trade Union Education Manuals for Agricultural Workers
- Safety and Health in the Use of Agrochemicals
- Set of Tools for Health Micro-insurance (STEP)
- Social Protection Floor Initiative Manual
- Work Improvement in Neighbourhood Development (WIND)
- Work Improvement in Small Enterprises (WISE)
People
Children
- Guidelines on the Formation of Self-Help Groups – For Families of Working Children
- How-to Guide on Economic Re-integration of Child Soldiers
- Supporting Children’s Rights through Education, the Arts and the Media (SCREAM)
- Tackling Hazardous Child Labour in Agriculture
- Training Resource Pack on the Elimination of Hazardous Child Labour
Disabled Persons
- Count Us In! How to Make Sure that Women with Disabilities can Participate Effectively in Mainstream Women’s Entrepreneurship Development Activities
- ILO Code of Practice on Managing Disability in the Workplace
- Replicating Success Toolkit
- Skills Development through Community-Based Rehabilitation: A Good Practice Guide
HIV/AIDS Affected Persons
- Card Game Mieux Connaître les IST-VIH-SIDA
- HIV/AIDS Behaviour Change Communication Toolkit for the Workplace
- HIV/AIDS Education and Counselling Manual in Cooperatives and Informal Sector Economy
- HIV/AIDS Peer Education Manual
- ILO Code of Practice in HIV/AIDS and the World of Work
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples
- Guidelines for Combating Child Labour among Indigenous and Tribal Peoples
- Indigenous and Tribal Peoples’ Rights in Practice: A Guide to ILO Convention 169
Women
- Gender and Entrepreneurship Together: GET-Ahead for Women in Enterprise Training Package and Resource Kit
- Making the Strongest Links: A Practical Guide to Mainstreaming Gender Analysis in Value-Chain Development
Youth
- Biz-up Self Employment Skills for Young People, Facilitator’s Guide and Toolkit/User’s Guide
- Guidelines for the Preparation of National Action Plans on Youth Employment
- Juventud y Empleo: Guía Sindical
- Improving Prospects for Young Women and Men in the World of Work: A Guide to Youth Employment
- Meeting the Youth Employment Challenge: A Guide for Employers
- Youth Employment: Making it Happen! An Electronic Resource Tool for Employers