Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Foreward -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Objectives and audience of the guide -- Organization of the guide -- Chapter 1 Challenges of inclusive and sustainable policy-making for full and productive employment -- Contents -- I. The rationale for employment policies -- A. An increasingly complex employment reality to address -- 1. More jobs? The quantity of employment: employmentrates, unemployment levels and workers' discouragement -- 2. Better jobs? The quality of employment: wages, informality,vulnerability and poverty -- B. A new momentum for employment policies -- 1. The international policy agenda -- 2. The national policy agendas -- C. Definition and scope of national employmentpolicies -- II. The ILO's approach to national employment policies -- A. The main ILO frameworks for employmentpolicies -- 1. The normative framework -- 2. The policy framework -- B The approach at the institutional level -- 1. Integrated and well-designed policy interventions -- 2. Improved policy coordination and policy coherence -- 3 Social dialogue and collective bargaining -- C. The approach at the policy level -- 1. The role of macroeconomic policies in fosteringpro-employment growth -- 2. Targeting employment -- 3. Employment friendly social protection systems:A virtuous cycle of social and economic development -- 4. Non-discrimination and gender equality in employmentshould be reinforced -- Annex 1 Main international labour standards on employmentpolicies -- Annex 2 Countries that ratified Convention No. 122 -- Chapter 2 Overview of the employment policy process -- Contents -- I. Prerequisites for a successful policy process -- A. Sustainability in action -- 1. Alignment with other national processes -- 2. Building partnerships -- 3. Broad and sustained political commitment -- B. Clear institutional anchorage.

C. An inclusive and accountable process -- II. Phases for developing a NEP: where to start? -- A. The preparation phase -- 1. Defining the policy's goal -- 2. Setting the organizational framework -- B. The issue identification phase -- C. The formulation phase -- D. The validation, adoption, and communication phase -- 1. Validation: obtaining a national consensus on the NEP -- 2. Adoption: giving the NEP executive force -- 3. Communication: letting people know about the NEP -- E. The programming and budgeting phase -- F. The implementation phase -- G. The evaluation phase -- Annex 1 Checklist for the policy planning process -- Annex 2 Matrix of tasks and responsibilities for policy formulation -- Annex 3 A process that is neither quick nor cheap -- Chapter 3 Building knowledge: the issue identification phase -- Contents -- I. Why build a solid knowledge base? -- A. A decision-making tool in a strategic planning approach -- B. A tool to strengthen and intensify social dialogue -- C. A key moment in an evaluation approach -- II. How to efficiently build knowledge? Entry points -- III. Methodologies and tools tobuild knowledge -- A. Analysis of employment and labour market data -- B. Comprehensive employment policy reviews -- C. Thematic analyses -- 1. The relationship between economic growth, productiveemployment and poverty reduction -- 2. Pro-employment macro economic frameworks -- 3. Sectoral policies, including industrial policies -- 4. Financial policies -- 5. Trade policies and Regional integration -- 6. Labour mobility and migration for employment -- 7. Labour market regulations -- 8. Skills, employability and technology -- 9. Informal economy: transition to formality -- 10. Youth -- 11. Gender -- 12. Vulnerable groups and labour market discrimination -- 13. Green jobs.

D. Review of existing programmes and projects, including mapping of bi- and multilateral initiatives -- E. Review of the institutional framework and institutional audits -- F. Review of the financial resources allocated(directly or indirectly) to employment -- Annex 1 ILO employment and decent work databases and indicators -- Annex 2 Information sources -- Annex 3 Definitions of main ILO indicators -- Annex 4 List of Country Employment Policy Reviews -- Annex 5 Useful questions for the analysis of macroeconomic frameworks -- Annex 6 Example of a questionnaire for an institutional audit of an Employment Fund -- Chapter 4 From situation analysis to strategic planning: the policy formulation phase -- Contents -- I. Setting policy priorities: which issues to address in the NEP -- II. Generating policy options -- III. General structure of the policydocument -- Annex 1: Available policy tools for policy-makers -- Chapter 5 From strategic to operational planning and implementation tools -- Contents -- I. Planning for implementation -- A. The policy goal -- B. The objectives and targets -- C. The expected outcomes and their monitoring indicators -- II. Implementation tools -- III. Organizational and institutional framework for implementation -- A. Coordination mechanism and implementation framework -- B. The institutional framework for monitoring and evaluation -- 1. What is monitoring and evaluation and impact evaluation? -- 2. How to build a good system? Mapping the entry points -- 3. Institutional functions of a M&E framework -- 4. Organizing trade unions' and employers' participation in M&E -- 5. Conclusion: the two concentric circles of M&E -- IV. Financing of the NEP -- A. Plan and budget for the resources needed for effective implementation of the NEP -- B. Inclusion in the national budget: why and how to.

1. The Medium Term Expenditure Framework: a tool toadvocate for resources during budget arbitrations by theMinistry of Finance -- 2. Public Expenditure Reviews: a tool to convince the Ministry of Finance of the efficient use of past budgetary allocations -- 3. Which institutional arrangements? The institutional process of pro-employment budgeting -- C. Mobilization of extra-budgetary resources -- Annex 1 Good practices from two pilot countries on public expenditure reviews -- Glossary.