Publications

by Holden Hao created 2021-01-19T19:30:11+07:00
Moving the Needle: Gender equality and decent work in Asia’s garment sector

Moving the Needle: Gender equality and decent work in Asia’s garment sector

This report sheds light on the importance of addressing gender equality in the garment sector, while also providing ILO constituents and industry stakeholders with a holistic roadmap for action that places decent work and social justice at the heart of the post-pandemic business...

Greener clothes? Environmental initiatives and tools in the garment sector in Asia

Greener clothes? Environmental initiatives and tools in the garment sector in Asia

The increasing social and environmental impacts of the textile and garment supply chain are well known and have resulted in the development of an array of initiatives, tools and assessment platforms to enhance the sustainability of the sector. There is a great deal of diversity...

Reducing the footprint? How to assess carbon emissions in the garment sector in Asia

Reducing the footprint? How to assess carbon emissions in the garment sector in Asia

This report examines carbon emissions across the garment sector as counted using the two prominent methodologies for calculating emissions – the life cycle assessment (LCA) and carbon accounting in line with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. The purpose of this report is to provide...

Productivity interventions available to garment factories in Asia: A mapping study

Productivity interventions available to garment factories in Asia: A mapping study

This study focuses on the availability of productivity interventions in the Asian garment sectors. By examining a subset of productivity interventions available to the industry, the paper depicts a broader picture of what type of support services are available to Asian garment...

Quick impact assessment of COVID-19 pandemic on the key economic sectors: Responses, adjustment and resilence of business and workers

Quick impact assessment of COVID-19 pandemic on the key economic sectors: Responses, adjustment and resilence of business and workers

With the objective of studying the impacts of Covid-19 pandemic and the responses and the adjustment processes by businesses and workers, the research is mainly based on two surveys of 58 firms and 292 workers in tourism, garment, electronics, seafood-processing and...

Gendered impacts of COVID-19 on the garment sector

Gendered impacts of COVID-19 on the garment sector

This brief, co-authored by the ILO and Better Work, aims to raise awareness of the gendered reality of COVID-19 and to outline some of the ways in which the pandemic impacts women and men workers in the garment sector in the short, medium and long terms.

Gender and the labour market in Viet Nam*

Gender and the labour market in Viet Nam*

An analysis based on the Labour Force Survey Labour market participation of women is remarkably high in Viet Nam, Women are on average found in lower-quality employment than men, While being highly economically active, women also discharge a disproportionate amount of family...

Factory Improvement Toolset Tools Catalogue

Factory Improvement Toolset Tools Catalogue

The Factory Improvement Toolset (FIT) is an innovative self-facilitated, activity-based programme designed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to create more decent and sustainable employment.