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Local governance and the informal economy: Experiences in promoting decent work in the Philippines This report, “Local Governance and the Informal Economy: Experiences in Promoting Decent Work in the Philippines,” illustrates how economic development can be promoted in local jurisdictions and presents a number of strategies carried out in the Philippines. It particularly shows how the powers and functions of local governments are used to advance decent work, especially in extending formal mechanisms of recognition and protection to workers in the informal economy.
Bringing Jobs Back to the Village in the PRC's Fujian Province More than 100 subprojects in the People’s Republic of China’s Fujian Province reunite families separated by distant work, and bridge the income gap by promoting information, cooperation, and infrastructure for a wide range of businesses.
Engagement in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations: Pilot Fragility Assessment of an Informal Urban Settlement in Kiribati The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has piloted fragility assessments in selected urban settlements in the Pacific using a community-based approach and focusing on the impact of fragility on the delivery of basic services. The fragility assessment of South Tarawa in Kiribati explores patterns of fragility related to urban development including delivery of critical urban services with focus on water and sanitation services. Bairiki Village, an urban settlement in South Tarawa, was a case study for the assessment.
Youth Employment through Local Economic Development in Quang Nam Province The objective of this project is to improve the employability and employment opportunities for young women and men by upgrading skills and improving job opportunities in through enhanced business enabling environment, business development services and overall market access in Quang Nam.
Tourism benefits Viet Nam’s rural poor Inland hilltribe villagers in Quang Nam province have increased their earnings by developing products such as traditional weavings, spices, tea gift baskets and home stay services for tourists, with the help of an ILO project and funding from the Luxembourg Government. By Tran Quynh Hoa, ILO Office in Viet Nam
Antique in the spotlight: Local economic development to create youth employment In the Philippines, a great number of young people cannot find work. According to the 2011 data from the National Statistics Office, almost half of unemployed were young workers aged 15-24 years.
Indigenous crafts of Cambodia This catalogue features products created by indigenous peoples in Cambodia - products made for their daily use but also designed for a wider market.
Turning waste fruit into a profitable business Cooperatives have played an important role in Indonesia by helping to boost growth, reduce poverty and promote social cohesion. As the world celebrates the UN International Day of Cooperatives, Gita Lingga reports on a successful project involving rural women in the Maluku islands.
Philippines: Boosting entrepreneurship to ease jobs crisis One third of the Philippines population live in poverty, and thousands head out every day to work abroad. The ILO is promoting entrepreneurship as an alternative to hard-to-get wage jobs and migration.
Sri Lanka: New hope for war victims Decades of civil war have left deep scars in Sri Lanka. An ILO training project brings new hope to some of those whose lives and hopes were shattered by the violence.
The challenge of getting a job in Cambodia Unemployment in Cambodia is very low, but that’s because the vast majority of the population works in the informal sector. The government hopes ILO-backed job centres will help increase access to decent work.
Limits of good governance in developing countries This book is the first result of an international joint research project, Academic Network for the Development of Asia (ANDA). ANDA is sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and the Graduate School of International Development (GSID), Nagoya University, Japan took the initiative for the network. ANDA has had 12 research groups and one of them is the governance group.
Job-rich Growth in Asia This report reviews some of the main labour market and social policy challenges that developing Asia faces. It proposes a development approach that integrates skills, employment and social protection within local development strategies in order to achieve more “sustainable and balanced” patterns of growth. The report emphasises the need to address workforce development within a broad approach which takes into account local enterprise development and new economic opportunities. It provides guidance on how to implement employment and skills policies to maximise their impact on job creation and quality employment. It considers the development of social protection systems to make the economy both more productive and inclusive. And it addresses critical issues of vertical and horizontal co-ordination to design and implement effective policies and strategies.
Kerala Local Government and Service Delivery :: World Bank The objective of the Kerala Local Government and Service Delivery Project for India is to enhance and strengthen the institutional capacity of the local government system in Kerala to deliver services and undertake basic administrative and governance functions more effectively and in a sustainable manner.
Competitive Cities in the 21st Century Cluster-Based Local Economic Development This book explores ways to foster the development of more competitive and sustainable urban economies in Asia. In particular, it explores ways offostering the development of industry clusters to increase the competitiveness of Asian cities through an analytical methodology and structured approach toward CCED. CCED has been developed and tested in three South Asian countries: Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka. It draws upon an extensive body of knowledge and experience of industry cluster development in Asia and elsewhere. Detailed studies of selected industry clusters have been undertaken to identify and understand what is necessary to make cities more competitive, and to formulate cluster development strategy for inclusive economic growth.
The challenges of Delivering as One: Overcoming fragmentation and moving towards policy coherence How to achieve better coherence between the economic and social policies pursued by the agencies of the UN system? This paper looks at the concrete experience of two employment and social protection initiatives in two countries in South Asia, Nepal and Maldives, to illustrate some of the main factors that enabled some UN cooperation as well as the constraints deriving from policy differences and organizational boundaries. It makes suggestions for steps to enhance system-wide coherence, arguing the need to shift the focus of inter-agency debates from the efficiency of programming and operations to the policy levers to achieve development outcomes. The paper was prepared for the Policy Coherence for Growth, Employment and Decent Work project under the ILO-Norway Cooperation Agreement.
Employment diagnostic analysis: Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia The present study offers an employment diagnostic analysis of Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT). The overall objective is to understand the nature of the deficiency of productive employment in NTT and to identify the constraints, challenges and opportunities for enhancing inclusive job-rich growth based on a methodology developed for this purpose by the ILO, with a view to provide a sound knowledge base for effective policies, institutional reforms and other interventions aimed at reducing the deficiency of productive employment.
Employment diagnostic analysis: Maluku, Indonesia Following a request for cooperation in the field of provincial level employment analysis and employment planning from the BAPPENAS (National Planning Board of Indonesia) and an agreement with the Provincial Government in Maluku, an extensive employment diagnostic analysis was carried out. This exercise comprised two phases. The first phase consisted of a thorough situation analysis of patterns and dynamics of employment and economic development. The second phase involved a systematic analysis of the causes behind the insufficient growth of productive employment and an identification of the factors constraining the translation of growth into productive employment creation and welfare and poverty reduction. Whereas, the first phase of the analysis was carried out through a comprehensive mainly quantitative desk research, the second phase of the analysis engaged the ILO social partners in Maluku who provided their input into the analysis in an employment diagnostic workshop.
Asia Pacific Labour Market Update This newsletter provides a snapshot of economic and labour market trends for a number of Asian region economies, based on official data available as of 21 November 2011.
Breaking Down the Barriers to Business in the Pacific: Private Sector Reform Stories This publication contains the stories of Pacific people whose lives have been transformed through reforms initiated by the Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI), co-financed by ADB and AusAID. the PSDI focuses on the following key areas: (i) state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform and public-private partnerships (PPPs), (ii) financial sector reform to promote access to financial services, and (iii) reform of the legal and business regulatory environments. The stories on this publications include assisting the Solomon Islands Government with reforming the Companies Act, increasing access to finance opportunities in remote areas of Papua New Guinea, and exploring innovative ways of using sandalwood as collateral to secure credit.
Asian Development Bank Website of the Asian Development Bank, which contains a wide range of resources on the region
Job-rich Growth in Asia. Jobs-rich Growth in Asia discusses some of the most pressing issues that countries in Southeast Asia are facing in regard to boosting local employment and skills development while advancing social protection strategies in emerging, fast-growing labour markets. A joint OECD/ILO initiative, this book analyses local approaches in Asia to modernise labour markets and skills strategies and shows how local recovery is taking place through a combination of policy measures on employment creation, skills development and social protection
Report on LED Nepal Knowledge Sharing Workshop - April 2010
Local Economic Development in the Tourism Sector in East Java
Case study China: Local Economic Policies in Guangdong Province and Employment Promotion under the Crisis
Case study Vietnam: Pro-active Responses of Vinh Phuc and Binh Duong Provinces to Address the Fall in Foreign Direct Investment and Market Demandietnam National Case Study
Employment and Skills Strategies in Southeast Asia, OECD report The Southeast Asian region has experienced some of the highest growth rates in the world, with investments in skills playing a significant role in helping national economies to adjust to changes in working practices, advances in technology, and challenges associated with globalisation. In some countries this process has been more successfully managed and significant advances have been achieved in growth rates and employment levels, but in others it has resulted in stagnation of economic sectors, underemployment, rising unemployment levels and social exclusion for large sections of society. The tools that are available for governments to manage change must be capable of responding to the new opportunities posed by globalisation, yet at the same time address domestic challenges associated with demographic shifts in population, increased urbanisation and the informalisation of labour markets. The present report explores these complex issues and identifies the main constraints facing employment growth in the region, and through an analysis of existing strategies identifies which have been the most successful at generating sustainable employment.
Sub-Regional Conference on Local Economic Development
Local Economic Development in Sri Lanka This is an LED story of a Forum Theatre experience by Enter-Growth project of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
Local Economic Development in Polonnaruwa district, Sri Lanka A Case Study as part of the Good Practice LED Cases in South Asia, commissioned by International Labour Organisation.
Value Chain Development for more Competitiveness and Decent Work This booklet summarises the main findings and proposals of a value chain initiative in one province in Sri Lanka organised by the Enter-Growth project of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and key stakeholders in the value chain.
Transition to Cooperative Entrepreneurship: Case studies from Armenia, China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Poland, Russia, Uganda and Vietnam This volume documents current entrepreneurial and management practices in cooperatives in selected transition and developing economies and identifies the key factors determining the success of cooperative entrepreneurship in the transition from central planning to a market-driven economy.
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