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[IWS] ILO Bangkok: RECENT PUBLICATIONS 2006/4 Online [22 December 2006]

IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016
-------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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ILO Library, Bangkok
www.ilo.org/asia/library

Recent Publications, No. 2006/4


Decent Work for Women and Men in the Informal Economy: Profile and Good Practices in Cambodia
by International Labour Office in cooperation with the Economic Institute of Cambodia (EIC) and United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Cambodia
Bangkok: ILO, 2006
95 p.
English version
ISBN 92-2-119045-5 and 978-92-2-119045-5 (print version)
ISBN 92-2-119046-3 and 978-92-2-119046-2 (web version)
Read Online:
http://www.ilo.org/asia/library/download/pub06-26.pdf
[full-text, 97 pages] 

Khmer Version
ISBN 92-2-819045-0 and 978-92-2-819045-8 (print version)
ISBN 92-2-819046-9 and 978-92-2-819046-5 (web version)

This report brings together lessons from the experience of over 50 national and local ILO partner organizations in Cambodia. It provides a profile of the informal economy with an explicit gender dimension and highlights good practices for policy development through discussion and dialogue between decision makers in the public and private sectors, and groups of informal economy workers both at the national level and in local communities and workplaces. It is hoped that this report will contribute to more effective policy and programme design geared at alleviating poverty through the creation of decent work.


        
Good practices in safety, health and working conditions: home workers, farmers and construction workers in Cambodia, Mongolia, and Thailand
edited by Tsuyoshi Kawakami
Bangkok: ILO, 2006. 20 p.
ISBN 92-2-119168-0 and 978-92-2-119168-1 (print)
ISBN 92-2-119169-9 and 978-92-2-119169-8 (web)
Read Online:
http://www.ilo.org/asia/library/download/pub06-24.pdf
[full-text, 24 pages]

This book presents best practices in safety, health and working conditions made by home workers, and construction workers and managers in Cambodia, Mongolia, and Thailand. They attended participatory training workshops to improve safety, health and working conditions; WIND (Work Improvement in Neighbourhood Development) for farmers, WISCON (Work Improvement in Small Construction Sites) for construction workers, and WISH (Work Improvement for Safe Home) for home workers, and implemented improvements by using locally available, low-cost materials. These training activities were supported by the ILO�s Informal Economy, Poverty and Employment Project with the financial support from the Government of the United Kingdom.
        


Know more about HIV/AIDS: a toolkit for workers in the informal economy
Bangkok: ILO, 2006
38 p.
English version
ISBN 92-2-118429-3 & 978-92-2-118429-4 (print)
ISBN 92-2-118430-7 & 978-92-2-118430-0 (web)
ISBN 92-2-018489-3 & 978-92-2-018489-9 (CD-ROM)
Read Online:
http://www.ilo.org/asia/library/download/pub06-27.pdf
[full-text, 46 pages]

Khmer Version
ISBN 92-2-818429-9 and 978-92-2-818429-7 (print version)
ISBN 92-2-818430-2 and  978-92-2-818430-3 (web version)
ISBN 92-2-018489-3 and 978-92-2-018489-9 (CD-ROM)

This toolkit contains information and exercises on different aspects on HIV and AIDS, from rights and responsibilities, to stigma and discrimination, and it provides information on different HIV and AIDS-related services. It has been developed to provide easy-to-use materials on HIV and AIDS for the benefit of workers in the informal economy.


        
Work Improvement for Safe Home: Action Manual for Improving Safety, Health and Working Conditions of Homeworkers
by Tsuyoshi Kawakami, Sara Arphorn and Yuka Ujita
Bangkok: ILO, 2006. 90 p.
ISBN 92-2-119080-3 and 978-92-2-119080-6 (print version)
ISBN 92-2-119081-1 and 978-92-2-119081-3 (web version)
Read Online:
http://www.ilo.org/asia/library/download/pub06-22.pdf
[full-text, 92 pages]

The WISH action manual responds to the immediate need of home workers and provides them with practical, easy-to-implement ideas to improve their safety, health and working conditions. Theses improvements will also contribute too higher productivity and efficiency of their work and promote active participation and cooperation of home workers in the same workplace or in the same community. The manuall reflects the practical experiences in the home worker training in Cambodia, Mongolia, and Thailand carried out within the framework of the ILO�s Informal Economy, Poverty and Employment Project with the financial support from the Government of the United Kingdom. The participating home workers have implemented many low-cost improvements for safety, health and productivity by using available resources.

 

Integrated Rural Accessibility Planning (IRAP) in Mongolia
by Chloe Pearse
Bangkok: ILO, 2006
76p. (Rural Accessibility Technical Paper (RATP) Series; no.15)
ISBN 92-2-118859-0 & 978-92-2-118859-9 (print)
ISBN 92-2-118860-4 & 978-92-2-118860-5 (web)
Read Online:
http://www.ilo.org/asia/library/download/pub06-25.pdf
[full-text, 78 pages]

Provides guidance on how to improve the accessibility of rural people to the various economic and social goods, services and facilities that they need in their daily lives.


[Thanks to Chanitda Wiwatchanon, Regional Librarian, ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific for the tip].

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