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Green jobs

Maldives: 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 Maldives, as well as vulnerability to climate change and sectors with green jobs potential.

Training Policy Brief

Protecting Migrant Workers in Maldives

This policy brief presents the situation of the migrant workers in Maldives and proposes several policy recommendations. It calls for the establishment of an authoritative body to closely monitor migrant situation and rectify matters urgently by ratifying best practices and conventions.

Report

Towards resilient social dialogue in South Asia

The report is a collation of key social dialogue mechanisms in South Asia, their responses to the COVID-19 crisis and actions to build resilience compiled by ILO DWT/CO-New Delhi

Guidelines for the establishment of an enterprise-level COVID-19 Task Force

The Decent Work Team for South Asia, in consultation with the Bureaux for Employers and Workers’ Activities and INWORK, have developed guidelines to inform and encourage the formation of COVID-19 Task Forces at an enterprise-level.

Minimum wage

The Maldives minimum wage report

Following an official request of the Government of the Maldives, the ILO conducted a study on assessing the needs of workers and their families, and economic factor to set a minimum wage for the country.

Fact sheet

Employment and environmental sustainability in Maldives

The Employment and Environmental Sustainability Fact Sheets series provides key indicators of employment and environmental sustainability performance. They include: (i) employment in environmental sectors; (ii) skill levels; (iii) vulnerability of jobs; (iv) jobs in renewable energy; and (v) scoring on the Environmental Performance Index.

Country leaflet

The ILO in Maldives

This Country Leaflet gives an overview of ILO activities in Maldives. It summarizes the ILO’s history in the country, and outlines the work undertaken by the ILO in cooperation with the government and social partners on a wide range of work and workplace issues.

Labour migration

International labour migration statistics in South Asia: Establishing a subregional database and improving data collection for evidence-based policy-making

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of statistics related to labour migration from South Asia. It also includes conversations on developments and trends in labour migration, migrant worker attributes, and associated thematic areas in the sub-region.

Publication

Measures to Increase Employment of Nationals in Expatriate Dominated Occupations and promote decent work among all workers

The high dependence on foreign labour makes employment and migration two interdependent issues requiring a coordinated strategy. On the one hand, nearly half of the employed are foreigners , and not only they play a predominant role in low skilled occupations, but are numerous also among professionals and technicians. On the other hand, despite the buoyant economic growth that allowed the Maldives to reach the status of a middle-income country in 2011 , the labour market has been increasingly characterised by unemployment and discouragement.

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Jobs Strategy

Promoting Transformation and Job Creation in the Maldives

Promoting fundamental principles and rights at work in the Maldives (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project - MDV/10/01USA - Evaluation consultant: Christophe Weinmann

Measuring children’s work in South Asia: Perspectives from national household surveys

The report provides an overview and insight into the nature and extent of child labour and children’s employment and educational marginalization in the South Asian countries and region.

Country leaflet

The ILO in Maldives

This Country Leaflet gives an overview of ILO activities in Maldives. It summarizes the ILO’s history in the country, and outlines the work undertaken by the ILO in cooperation with the government and social partners on a wide range of work and workplace issues.

South Asia Children in labour and employment

Measuring children’s work

Measuring children’s work in South Asia: Perspectives from national household surveys - Fact sheet

Provides an overview of the joint ILO-UCW South Asia report on child labour and children in employment

Employment challenges in the Maldives

This study is a component of the ILO's project to provide technical assistance to on-going efforts by the Government of Maldives to formulate an employment policy and strategy.

Economic Crisis, International Tourism Decline and its Impact on the Poor

This report is an analysis of the effects of the global economic crisis on the employment of poor and vulnerable groups in the tourism sector.

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Maldives TVET Assessment

This study aimed to assess the current TVET system in the Maldives according to the framework and indicators developed by the IWG and make some policy recommendations based on the assessment

Migrant workers in the international hotel industry

This Report addresses complex themes relating to migrant work and migrant workers in the international hotel industry, recognizing that the experience of migrant workers (international and internal), their employers and the wider community varies greatly in different countries and cultures.