Resources on Construction sector

  1. Construction of low volume sealed roads : good practice guide to labour-based methods

    01 May 2013

    The Guideline is primarily targeted at Small-Scale Contractors and their Supervisors who are involved in low-volume road works using Labour Based Methods (LBM).

  2. The health of workers in selected sectors of the urban economy: Challenges and perspectives

    01 January 2013

    This paper aimed at analysing and systematizing the health challenges faced by the poorest strata of urban workers and to discuss solutions.

  3. Desk review of research on HIV/AIDS in the world of work

    31 July 2012

    This desk review was conducted by ILO/AIDS as part of the Inter-Agency Task Team on HIV workplace policies/programmes and private sector engagement (IATT/WPPS). It is based primarily on the research documents shared by the IATT members, covering vulnerability studies, stigma and discrimination studies, impact and cost-benefit studies.

  4. Informal construction workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    01 February 2007

    Working Paper 226

  5. Baseline study of labour practices on large construction sites in the United Republic of Tanzania

    01 January 2005

    Working Paper 225

  6. Reconstructing the facade of St.Joseph's Cathedral - Dar Es Salaam

    01 October 2003

  7. Independent evaluation: Hanna Nassif community based settlement upgrading phase II

    02 August 2002

    Following a request from the local community the International Labour Organisation (ILO) initiated the Hanna Hassif Community Based Upgrading Project in 1993 and continued with Phase II, which started in March 1997 and (funding) finished in September 2000. The project took an innovative approach in both its institutional set up and the use of labour-based community contracting and community management in an urban environment. This Independent Evaluation was commissioned by the ILO, to evaluate the project and learn from its successes and failures.