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Integrated approaches for formalization in Asia and the Pacific

This report highlights why the multi-faceted dimensions of informality demand an integrated approach to formalization, outlines the nature of an integrated approach to employment formalization, reviews the extent that countries in Asia and the Pacific are applying integrated approaches to formalization, and provides examples and an action-oriented outline for advancing integrated approaches to formalization in the region.

TRIANGLE in ASEAN

TRIANGLE in ASEAN Quarterly Briefing Notes

TRIANGLE in ASEAN works with labour ministries, workers' and employers' organizations, recruitment agency associations, civil society organizations in six countries in ASEAN; Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. Below Quarterly Briefing Notes give an update on our work during the previous quarter.

OSH

Occupational safety and health in skills training – Myanmar (student’s handbook)

The training package is developed under the ILO Safety + Health for All (SHFA) in Myanmar project, aiming to build a preventative safety and health culture by mainstreaming occupational safety and health into education. It supports TVET and skills training institutions in Myanmar in the development and integration of OSH modules into curricula commonly applied to all students.

OSH

Occupational safety and health in skills training – Myanmar

The training package is developed under the ILO Safety + Health for All (SHFA) in Myanmar project, aiming to build a preventative safety and health culture by mainstreaming occupational safety and health into education. It supports TVET and skills training institutions in Myanmar in the development and integration of OSH modules into curricula commonly applied to all students.

OSH

Occupational safety and health in skills training – Myanmar (trainer’s manual)

The training package is developed under the ILO Safety + Health for All (SHFA) in Myanmar project, aiming to build a preventative safety and health culture by mainstreaming occupational safety and health into education. It supports TVET and skills training institutions in Myanmar in the development and integration of OSH modules into curricula commonly applied to all students.

SCORE Training catalogue

SCORE Training helps SMEs to achieve better working conditions and productivity through its wide variety of modules and stands as an aid to compliance.

Report of the Commission of Inquiry

Towards Freedom and Dignity in Myanmar

Report of the Commission of Inquiry established in accordance with article 26 of the ILO Constitution concerning non-observance by Myanmar of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), and the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29).

TRIANGLE in ASEAN

The ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour: A review of the implementation of Recommendations (3rd to 14th Forums)

This report is the sixth in a series of progress review background papers, biennially prepared by the ILO’s TRIANGLE in ASEAN programme, that track the progress of ASEAN stakeholders in implementing recommendations adopted at previous AFMLs.

Labour market

Who pays the price of unemployment?: Employment termination and income security in Myanmar

Since 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 military takeover and surging global commodity prices have significantly impacted the lives of the people of Myanmar. One such impact is employment; despite a slight recovery in the first half of 2022, unemployment and underemployment in Myanmar are reportedly still worse than they were before the pandemic started in 2020.

TRIANGLE in ASEAN

Resumption of labour migration and regional cooperation

Thematic background paper for the 15th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour

Child labour

Assessment of child labour in the Yangon Region, Ayeyarwady Region and Kayin State

This assessment report, launched to mark the World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL) 2023, provides an in-depth picture of child labour in the Yangon Region, Ayeyarwady Region and Kayin State in Myanmar. It also maps current child protection and vocational educational services in these regions, as a basis for developing referral mechanisms, including labour market and training opportunities for vulnerable youth. Additionally, it provides recommendations for appropriate awareness raising, advocacy and overarching key policy interventions to be pursued, when the situation allows.

Child labour

Assessment of child labour in the Yangon Region, Ayeyarwady Region and Kayin State: Executive summary

This assessment report, launched to mark the World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL) 2023, provides an in-depth picture of child labour in the Yangon Region, Ayeyarwady Region and Kayin State in Myanmar. It also maps current child protection and vocational educational services in these regions, as a basis for developing referral mechanisms, including labour market and training opportunities for vulnerable youth.

Advancing Safety & Health at Work - Japan contribution

This fact sheet highlights key results achieved in the field of safety and health at work through seven projects funded by the Government of Japan in 2021-2022.

Fair and ethical recruitment

Regional operational guidelines on fair and ethical recruitment in ASEAN. Improving regulation and enforcement: A resource for regulators

The regional operational guidelines provide guidance to government regulators on fair recruitment practices, licensing private recruitment agencies, monitoring recruitment processes, and acting on complaints related to the recruitment process. Developed within the framework of the ILO general principles and operational guidelines for fair recruitment, these regional operational guidelines are relevant to both countries of origin and destination.

Migrant women's groups

Lessons learned: Building migrant women’s groups and networks

The Lessons Learned outlined in this paper draw attention to reflections and good practices from the experiences of building of migrant women’s groups and networks in both countries of origin and destination.

Achieving fair and ethical recruitment: Improving regulation and enforcement in the ASEAN region

This report focuses on the efforts of ASEAN Member States to foster fair and ethical recruitment. It maps the laws and regulations, and moreover, the enforcement mechanisms States have employed, and reviews evidence of the results achieved.

Green jobs

Myanmar: The Employment - Environment - Climate Nexus: Employment and environmental sustainability factsheet

The Employment-Environment-Climate Nexus Factsheets are a series produced for countries in the Asia-Pacific region. This Factsheet provides key features of labour market and environmental sustainability performance in Myanmar, as well as vulnerability to climate change and sectors with green jobs potential.

Green jobs

ASEAN: The Employment - Environment - Climate Nexus: Employment and environmental sustainability factsheet

The Employment-Environment-Climate Nexus Factsheets are a series produced for countries in the Asia-Pacific region. This Factsheet provides key features of labour market and environmental sustainability performance in ASEAN, as well as vulnerability to climate change and sectors with green jobs potential.

Spotlight Initiative

A very beautiful but heavy jacket: The experiences of migrant workers with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression in South-East Asia

The study reveals migrant workers with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression (SOGIE) in South-East Asia benefit from labour migration, yet experience discrimination.

World Day Against Child Labour 12 June 2022 Commemoration coloring book

What does it mean to be a child? Explore what a happy and healthy childhood can look like when children are free from child labour in the ILO Myanmar’s Coloring Book commemorating World Day against Child Labour 2022.