Resources on green works

  1. Developing a social safety net: capacity building for income support and livelihood recovery for poor and vulnerable families affected by Typhoon Pablo through labour-based rural road repair and maintenance

    25 June 2015

  2. Restoring income generation and food self-sufficiency of small-scale rice and corn farmers severely affected by Typhoon Haiyan

    25 June 2015

  3. Generating emergency employment and recovering sustainable livelihoods under the Philippines Typhoon Haiyan Action Plan

    25 June 2015

  4. 16th ILO Regional Seminar for Labour-Based Practitioners

    The theme of this edition is: "Labor based approaches as solutions for sustainable development challenges in the context of decentralization" Institutional and operational issues of employment intensive approaches will be addressed under the angle of strategies and resources for sustainable funding of labor-based investments targeting local communities, in terms of rational use of natural resources and local materials for labor-based works, development of alternative construction technologies, creation of green jobs and environmentally friendly economic growth, training opportunities to improve youth employability, resilience and social welfare of local communities

  5. Employment promotion in disaster response - project

    18 June 2015

  6. Vanuatu Employment Project – Increasing the quantity and quality of employment in recovery and reconstruction after cyclone PAM

    18 June 2015

  7. Haiyan: Helping vulnerable communities in Coron with Decent Work

    07 January 2015

    Typhoon Haiyan killed 8,000 and affected nearly 16 million people across the Philippines. And while Tacloban City sustained the most destruction, other more remote places also suffered heavy damage. Lives and livelihoods, infrastructure and services were all lost on the vacation island of Coron. A year after Haiyan, the island's people are gradually restoring some of what was lost, and at the same time, learning new skills and ways to support their families.

  8. the Philippines

    13 November 2014

    Activities of the Employment Intensive Investment Programme in the Philippines

  9. Typhoon Bopha: Sustainable Livelihoods for Affected Communities

    01 May 2013

    The Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) supported the livelihood recovery initiative of the International Labour Organization (ILO) which applies the Employment Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) as a post-calamity intervention in the three municipalities of Davao Oriental. Under the EIIP, local organizations were contracted to implement their post-calamity subprojects and activities aimed to help individuals and households recover from the impact of Typhoon Bopha.

  10. Community-based emergency employment, reconstruction and livelihood recovery in response to Typhoon Pablo (Bopha): Fact sheet

    17 December 2012

    Typhoon Pablo (Bopha) has affected many parts of the Southern Philippines and damaged thousands of properties and livelihoods. Typhoon Pablo was the strongest to hit the area in decades. The ILO has initially mobilized its internal resources and has also sought the assistance of its development partners.