Welcome to the ILO Decent Work in Supply Chains Evidence Hub
Did you ever wonder how participating in supply chains affects decent work, job creation, and wages?
How trade might influence working conditions or gender equality?
Or do you want to learn more about the effects of responsible business conduct on child labour?
Then you’re in the right place.
The ILO has a solid knowledge base on decent work in supply chains, trade and investment: 500+ publications in the last 10 years.
The Evidence Hub is an AI-enabled visual tool to help ILO constituents, policy makers and researchers identify and display knowledge to inform policies helping to realize Decent Work in Supply Chains. It highlights where robust ILO evidence exists, providing short summaries of what we know, as well as areas where evidence is still limited or non-existent.
Interactive guided tour on the Evidence Hub
This interactive guided tour is designed to help you how to best use the Evidence Hub. It will walk you through the functionalities one-by-one and show you how to use them. Click Next to continue the tour. You can go back to the previous step whenever you want.
Factors
The factors are variables that can potentially influence different aspects of decent work. They are thoughtfully grouped according to the ILO's strategy on Supply Chains as well as the ILO's research agenda on Supply Chains.
All factors are listed on the top row. As you hover your mouse over each factor, you'll see the number of documents available for that specific factor. If you click on a specific factor, you'll see the full list of documents assigned to it.
Here you can learn more about the definitions of the different factor variables on Decent Work in Supply Chains.
Outcomes
The outcomes are the results related to decent work discussed in publications listed. They are the variable or set of variables that researchers have observed or measured to determine the effects of an intervention or policy on supply chains.
All the outcomes are listed on the left column. As you hover your mouse over each outcome, you'll see the number of documents available for that specific outcome. If you click on a specific outcome, you'll see the full list of documents assigned to it.
Learn more about the definitions of the different outcome variables on Decent Work in Supply Chains.
The matrix
The matrix allows you to place your mouse over an intersection where a factor and outcome meet and see the number of documents available. Clicking on the intersection will display the summary of what we know on that intersection, and all the available documents.
If you have used any of the filters, the documents shown in the display will be organized according to your query. However, the filtered matrix does not include summaries.
Summaries of ILO evidence and documents
On top of the page, you'll find a summary that synthesises ILO research on this specific cross point. Please note that this summary is AI-generated, and closely fact-checked by the ILO. The summary will not be visible once you select a specific filter.
The box also provides the list of references for the summary. Click on the title of any document and a new window will open to redirect you to the document's page.
Supply chains filter
Pick the type of supply chain you would like to explore in more detail on the Evidence Hub.
There are nine options:
- Agriculture, food, and forestry
- Fisheries
- Textile, apparel, leather and related products
- Other manufacturing (including basic metals, chemicals and pharmaceuticals,
and transport equipment)
- Private services sectors
- Public service, utilities and health
- Electronics, machinery and electrical equipment
- Infrastructure, construction and related sectors
- Extractives and energy
Region filter
Pick the specific region you want to see in the Evidence Map.
Pick the specific region you would like to explore in more detail on the Evidence Hub.
There are 11 regions following the ILO Subregion-Broad groupings.
Counter
This number shows how many documents are available in the Evidence Hub according to your query. If you use any of the filters, this number will change accordingly.
If the number is zero, it means there are currently no documents that match your query. Feel free to adjust your search criteria in the query to find relevant documents to support your work.
Evidence view
The Evidence Hub has two types of matrix displays: Evidence and Heat. Turn on the view you want to see by clicking on it. The type of view that's on, will be represented in the switcher in white.
The Evidence view displays bubbles and the size of each bubble corresponds to the number of documents available in that specific intersection. Larger bubbles indicate a greater amount of evidence on that particular topic. Explore the bubbles to gain insight into the areas with more robust evidence and click on the bubbles to display the document list.
Heat view
The Heat view turns the visualization into a heat map, where darker colours represent areas with less documents available and lighter colours represent more documents are available.
This map allows you to identify regions or topics where research is scarce, helping you to identify areas for future research. Click on any square to display the document list.
Full screen
To have an immersive and complete overview of the Evidence Map, click on the "View full screen" button, this will expand the visualization, allowing you to view the map in a larger and easier to navigate format.
Resources
Finally, you can find more information about how we did the research to create this tool; detailed explanations for each outcome and factor; and this interactive guided tour.
Feel free to contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions, feedback or comments!
