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Brief

Fabric of empowerment

This policy brief summarizes insights from a study conducted across Pakistan for policymakers, practitioners and development partners. It highlights the obstacles encountered by both Afghan refugees and host communities within the artisanal...

Brief

Bridging the gaps

This policy brief summarizes insights from a study conducted across Pakistan for policymakers, practitioners and development partners. It highlights the obstacles encountered by both Afghan refugees and host communities within the construction...

Brief

Cultivating Collaborations

This policy brief summarizes insights from a study conducted across Pakistan for policymakers, practitioners and development partners. It highlights the obstacles encountered by both Afghan refugees and host communities within the fruit and...

Livelihood Opportunities

Building inclusive markets for Afghan refugees and host communities in Pakistan

The study offers a comprehensive market systems analysis focused on three key sectors: construction, fruit and vegetable, and textile crafts. By examining these industries, the research highlights potential inclusive livelihood opportunities for...

APESO

Asia-Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2024: Promoting decent work and social justice to manage ageing societies

This Asia-Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2024 report pulls together the most recent statistics to depict the state of the labour market and its impact on the 3.4 billion people living in the region. Beyond past trends, the report examines the...

Informality

Mapping of barriers and opportunities to reduce the informality of enterprises in Pakistan

The study is an outcome of the partnership between the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA), which provides an overview of the formal and informal business ecosystem in Pakistan....

Integrated approaches for formalization in Asia and the Pacific

Manual for training of trainers

Labour market reintegration of migrant workers and former refugees upon return in their origin countries

Decent work

Decent Work Country Programme for Pakistan (2023–27) (DWCP IV)

The Government of Pakistan, employers’ and workers’ organizations, along with the ILO, signed the Fourth Decent Work Country Programme for Pakistan on 4 May 2023. The Programme, covering the period 2023-27, reflects the shared priorities of the...

International labour standards

Pakistan’s tanning and leather industries : An overview of trends and labour and environmental conditions

The report identifies opportunities for macro level areas of leverage to drive improved compliance with national and international labour standards (including market access and preferential tariff treatment) as well as micro-level interventions to...

Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work

RISE for Impact: Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work in the Cotton Supply Chain – A New Phase, A New Vision (PAKISTAN)

Funded by INDITEX, the project aims to scale up the community model developed under the first phase of the project, in order to foster a partnership approach among the actors for enhanced respect for FPRW in cotton growing communities and a...

Forced labour

From Protocol to Practice: A Bridge to Global Action on Forced Labour (The Bridge Project II)

The Bridge Project funded by United States Department of Labour (USDOL) aims to increase knowledge and awareness on forced labour and support ratification and implementation of the ILO, Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930.

International labour standards

GSP+ and compliance with fundamental labour standards

This publication has been produced by the Ministry of Overseas Pakistani and Human Resource Development with the technical support of the ILO, through the International Labour and Environmental Standards Application in Pakistan’s SMEs (ILES)...

Child Labour

Rapid assessment of child labour in automobile repair workshops in Pakistan

Child labour in automobile repair workshops is widespread across Pakistan. The study explored the current situation of child labour in automobile repair workshops, elaborated the major push and pull factors, working conditions, effects on children's...

Child Labour

Assessing the capacity of law enforcement agencies to address child labour in Pakistan

This study assesses the capacities of national and provincial law enforcement agencies responsible for addressing child labour in Pakistan. With a view to ensure the relevance and responsiveness of a planned capacity building initiative, findings of...

Child Labour

Rapid assessment of child labour in waste-picking in Pakistan

Substantial number of children and adolescents are involved in work, including hazardous work like waste-picking in Pakistan. As Pakistani cities generate increasing quantities of solid waste – due to high levels of population growth and rapid...

Migrant workers

Comprehensive mapping and assessment of reintegration measures in South Asian Colombo process Member States

This report has been jointly commissioned by ILO and IOM under the Governance of Labour Migration in South and Southeast Asia (GOALS) programme in collaboration with UN-Women and seeks to map out and assess the nature and gaps in the reintegration...

Project results in Pakistan

Results of the CLEAR Cotton project in Pakistan

This factsheet presents the main achievements of the CLEAR Cotton project in Pakistan.

Supply chains

Factory Improvement Toolset case studies: Pakistan

This report reviews the results of the pilot implementation of Factory Improvement Toolset (FIT) located in Pakistan.

Supply chains

Implementation of the Factory Improvement Toolset in the Asian garment sector: Final report

This final report reviews the results of the pilot implementation of Factory Improvement Toolset (FIT) across 27 factories located in Cambodia, Bangladesh and Pakistan.