Cross cutting areas

Key Guides

  1. Environmental and social safeguards guidelines

  2. ILO Guide for Skills Development in Employment-Intensive Investment Programmes

  3. Illustrated guidelines for gender-responsive employment intensive investment programmes

  4. Basic safety and health guidelines for rural road works

  5. Employment-intensive infrastructure programmes : labour policies and practices

What’s new

  1. Project

    Green Works Based on Labour-Intensive Local Technologies in Burkina Faso

    14 March 2023

    Using the green works approach, this project aims to demonstrate, document, and analyse traditional soil restoration techniques and to gather the data necessary for policies and programmes at a larger and more systematic scale.

  2. TICAD 8

    ILO co-hosts TICAD 8 Side Event

    22 August 2022

    Human security and emergency jobs for peace and resilience/ Experiences through partnership between Japan and the ILO for the promotion of decent work agenda in the context of fragility

  3. Event

    Human security and emergency jobs for peace and resilience

    Experiences through partnership between Japan and the ILO for the promotion of decent work agenda in the context of fragility

  4. Video

    Two years on from the Beirut blast, how ILO helped create jobs and a safer city

    04 August 2022

    After the explosion that devastated parts of the Lebanese capital Beirut on August 4th 2020, the International Labour Organization mobilized its Employment Intensive Infrastructure Programme to clear the rubble, and in the process created decent jobs and hope for Lebanese nationals and Syrian refugees. The Organization continues to work with the authorities to restore livelihoods and create a safer city. Find out more: www.ilo.org/lebanon

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What are Crosscutting areas?

Crosscutting areas reflect the ILO’s core values that cut across all EIIP thematic areas, and are integrated into all EIIP projects. The strengthen the unique approach that the EIIP has developed over the past half century. Some of the key crosscutting areas include:

  • Gender equality
  • Social inclusion and reaching vulnerable groups
  • Skills development
  • Working conditions and Occupational Safety and Health
  • Environmental and social safeguards
  • Social dialogue

The resources listed provide practical guidance how these care ILO values can be integrated into projects and programmes.