EC-ILO project Monitoring and Assessing Progress on Decent Work: New publication online! "Manual on Concepts and Definitions of Decent Work Indicators"

Click here to access a new ILO publication produced within the framework of the EC/ILO project: Monitoring and Assessing Progress on Decent Work. 

The Manual presents a description of statistical indicators and legal framework indicators related to the ten substantive elements of decent work. The statistical indicators are presented in five elements: measurement objective and rationale; method of computation; concepts and definitions; recommended data sources; and metadata and disaggregation, with brief interpretation guidelines. The legal framework indicators aim to summarize legal information on the 21 topics that are considered as relevant to measure decent work, through several aspects of the law: laws, policies or institutions that are in place; benefit levels and thresholds; evidence of implementation effectiveness; rough percentage of workers covered, both in law and in practice; and the ratification of relevant ILO Conventions.

The EC/ILO project Monitoring and Assessing Progress on Decent Work (2009–2013),financed by the European Union,is supporting partner countries in strengthening national capacities to self-monitor and self-assess progress towards decent work. The project facilitates the identification of decent work indicators, supports data collection in this field, and uses the collected data for integrated policy analysis of decent work in order to better inform policy-making. It also supports the production of guidelines and manuals on measuring and assessing decent work.

More information about the project following the below link

http://www.ilo.org/integration/themes/mdw/WCMS_123804/lang--en/index.htm