Books published by International Labour Office

This guide contains all the basic information needed to set up and successfully run nurseries relying on manual work. It focuses on the production of containerised seedlings as the method most commonly used in the ILO's Special Public Works Programme (SPWP) and other non-industrial tree planting in developing countries. This booklet should be considered a starting point upon which the nursery workers' and managers' experience can and must built, through careful observation. The best guide to nurseries is the experience of the people running them.

This is the fifth and final in a Series of five manuals produced by the Social Security Department of the ILO to provide the reader with information on all the major elements of social security, including the principles, administration, financing, pension schemes and social health insurance. It provides an overview of social health insurance schemes and looks at the development of health care policies and feasibility issues. In addition, it also examines the design of health insurance schemes, health care benefits, financing and costs, and organization as well as considering the operational and strategic information requirements. Other manuals in this series: - Social security principles (Vol. I) - Administration of social security (Vol. II) - Social security financing (Vol. III) - Pension schemes (Vol. IV)

This guide describes and evaluates consulting from a client's perspective, placing stress on principles and practices that make the difference between effective and wasteful consulting projects. It should be useful for managers and entrepreneurs, as well as for consultants who wish to better understand their client's needs. Milan Kubr is the author of "Management Consulting: A Guide to the Profession".

Vocational education and training are vital components of any dignified job, especially during this era of rapid technological change. This volume examines vocational training institutions and practices in Latin America and the Caribbean and demonstrates how the ILO's decent work objectives are essential elements to their success.

One of the problems facing people active in the occupational safety and health field is the difficulty of translating terms and concepts from one language to another. This unique five-language glossary provides part of the solution. It contains more than 2500 equivalent terms and expressions (with hundreds of synonyms) from the whole of this interdisciplinary field in English, French, German, Spanish and Russian. In addition to its utility to subject specialists, it will be a valuable language tool for translators and interpreters. Specific subject areas covered include, among others, occupational medicine, occupational hygiene, chemical and physical hazards, protective equipment and clothing, ergonomics and epidemiology. Indexes by subject and language complement this useful contribution to the international safety and health literature.

ACOPAM (Appui associatif et coopiratif aux initiatives de diveloppement la base) s'attache amiliorer la situation des femmes dans ses zones d'intervention. Ce document rend compte de son action. La premihre partie est consacrie la mithodologie utilisie pour la collecte et l'analyse des informations; la seconde prisente une analyse des risultats des enqujtes. Elle montre la place des femmes dans la division du travail, leur contribution iconomique, leur position sociale et leur participation dans les projets de diveloppement.

Cet ouvrage s'adresse essentiellement aux chefs ou dirigeants d'entreprise, aux personnes qui souhaitent s'engager dans cette carriere et aux conseillers en gestion. Les auteurs sont tous trois des specialistes du conseil en management et de la formation a la gestion, qui ont travaille pour des entreprises appartenant a des branches tres diverses des services, du commerce ou de l'industrie, dans les pays developpes comme dans les pays en developpement. L'ouvrage comprend trois parties. La partie I evoque la personnalite et le comportement du chef d'entreprise. La partie II aborde les aspects financiers de la gestion, qui conditionnent le plus souvent le succes de l'entreprise. La partie III traite des rapports du chef d'entreprise avec le monde exterieur, notamment pour le recrutement du personnel, la commercialisation des produits et l'exploitation des ressources exterieures a l'entreprise. Cet ouvrage devrait etre un instrument utile de formation dans un secteur dont on mesure mieux aujourd'hui l'importance economique et sociale et le role dans le developpement.

This book is a useful resource for policy-makers and managers in mainstream and dedicated employment services, operated by governmental and non-governmental organizations. It examines the strategies which an effective placement service can adopt and the key components which it should include, as well as the alliances which it needs to develop with other agencies to ensure that it can work effectively.

This manual provides practical background information and a step-by-step guide for developing small business substance abuse prevention initiatives. It is based on the findings and lessons learned from the experience of five countries who participated in the ILO's pilot project on preventing alcohol and drug abuse at the workplace: Egypt, India, Malaysia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The volume offers numerous useful sample questionnaires, a plan of action, and a variety of self-assessment tools.

This is one of two volumes devoted to pension reform that are appearing as part of a series of studies of social security issues prepared by the ILO. The two pension volumes examine approaches to reform taken by four advanced EU-applicant countries, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia.

This is the fourth in a Series of five manuals produced by the Social Security Department of the ILO to provide the reader with information on all the major elements of social security, including the principles, administration, financing, pension schemes and social health insurance. This manual takes a look at and makes comparisons between public and private pensions, methods of protection in public schemes, old age benefits, invalidity benefits, survivor's benefits. Of particular interest to certain countries will be a section dealing with transforming existing "provident fund schemes" into ones based on social insurance. Other manuals in this series: - Social security principles (Vol. I) - Administration of social security (Vol. II) - Social security financing (Vol. III) - Social health insurance (Vol. V)

This is the third in a Series of five manuals produced by the Social Security Department of the ILO to provide the reader with information on all the major elements of social security, including the principles, administration, financing, pension schemes and social health insurance. The topic here is financing and the manual looks at social protection systems and their economic environment. It examines in detail the principles of financing and financial systems, including the flow of funds in a social security system, short- and long-term benefits and their respective financial systems and administration, as well as the actuarial and statistical methods and investment policies and instruments of social security funds. Other manuals in this series: - Social security principles (Vol. I) - Administration of social security (Vol. II) - Pension schemes (Vol. IV) - Social health insurance (Vol. V)

The book explores aspects of the administration of social security and provides a general overview looking at policy, structures, common features and principles of good management. Subsequent modules examine levels of administration, coverage, registration procedures, collection and recording of contributions, and the award and payment of benefits. Public relations are also explored, and the final module examines management topics.

This is the first in a Series of five manuals produced by the Social Security Department of the ILO to provide the reader with information on all the major elements of social security, including the principles, administration, financing, pension schemes and social health insurance. This manual provides an introduction to social security, explaining what social security is and who it protects. It also takes a look at the range of benefits provided by social security schemes, explains briefly how those schemes are financed and administered, and deals with International Labour Standards in relation to social security issues. Other manuals in this series: - Administration of social security (Vol. II) - Social security financing (Vol. III) - Pension schemes (Vol. IV) - Social health insurance (Vol. V)

Judged by the standards of the developing countries, the South Asian countries achieved fairly decent rates of economic growth over the pst two decades. Yet the +employment problem; remains serious in all of them. This insightful new study examines these past patterns of growth in employment in South Asia and their relationship to the process of economic growth. It reveals how modern sectors fail to generate employment and discusses the main reasons for this failure - rigidities in the organized labour market and inward orientation of industrialization strategies.

This manual is for community workers and other people who are assisting persons with disabilities and able-bodied persons to start small businesses. It can also be used by persons with disabilities themselves. The manual can be used as (1) a self-instructing training manual for teaching community workers, persons with disabilities and others to set up a small business; (2) a guide for community workers working for government or organizations of disabled persons for teaching persons with disabilities to set up a small business; (3) a reference material for community workers and others when giving advice and assistance to persons with disabilities.

The Asian Regional Team for Employment Promotion (ARTEP) is responsible for implementing the ILO's World Employment Programme in the Asian region. Its main objectives are to identify the factors which prevent a substantial expansion of employment opportunities in countries of the region, to identify measures which can overcome these factors and to assist governments in the implementation of such measures. The ARTEP is based in New Delhi, India. This volume is a synthesis of the discussion held at the Fourth Meeting of Asian Employment Planners organised by the ARTEP in New Delhi on 17-19 December, 1991.

This volume has been prepared by Mr. John Cameron of the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia and Mr. Mohammad Irfan of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad while they were respectively the Chief Technical Advisor and the National Technical Consultant to the above UNDP-ILO project.