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Pathways to Collective Power: Testing Models for Organizing Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Workers in the Philippine Digital Labor Sector

Grantee: BPO Industry Employees Network (BIEN)Partner organizations: N/ACountry of focus: Philippine Grant period: November 2025 – April 2027

Grantee: BPO Industry Employees Network (BIEN)
Partner organizations: N/A
Country of focus: Philippine
Grant period: November 2025 – April 2027

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Climate Change and the Future of Work in Sri Lankan Cities

Grantee: Centre for a Smart Future (CSF)Partner organizations: N/ACountry of focus: Sri LankaGrant period: November 2025 – April 2027

Grantee: Centre for a Smart Future (CSF)
Partner organizations: N/A
Country of focus: Sri Lanka
Grant period: November 2025 – April 2027

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Beyond the Platform: Social Insurance for Gig Workers in Bangladesh

Grantee: Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Partner organizations: N/ACountry of focus: Bangladesh Grant period: November 2025 – April 2027

Grantee: Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD)
Partner organizations: N/A
Country of focus: Bangladesh
Grant period: November 2025 – April 2027

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Fields Without Safety Nets: Analysis of Gendered Informality in the Agricultural Sector and Cost of Social Insecurity

Grantee: Nepal Development Research Institute (NDRI)Partner organizations: N/ACountry of focus: NepalGrant period: November 2025 – January 2027

Grantee: Nepal Development Research Institute (NDRI)
Partner organizations: N/A
Country of focus: Nepal
Grant period: November 2025 – January 2027

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Adapting to the AI Revolution: A Gender-Responsive Skilling Framework for Workers Aged 40 and Over (AISkill40+)

Grantee: Development and Policies Research Center (DEPOCEN)Partner organizations: N/ACountry of focus: Viet NamGrant period: November 2025 – April 2027

Grantee: Development and Policies Research Center (DEPOCEN)
Partner organizations: N/A
Country of focus: Viet Nam
Grant period: November 2025 – April 2027

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Heat, Health, and Gender: Climate Risks and Decent Work in South Asia’s Garment Sector

Grantee: Good Business Lab (GBL)Partner organizations: N/ACountry of focus: India and Bangladesh Grant period: November 2025 – January 2027

Grantee: Good Business Lab (GBL)
Partner organizations: N/A
Country of focus: India and Bangladesh
Grant period: November 2025 – January 2027

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Gender-Responsive Energy Transition in Sri Lanka: Insights from Mannar and Monaragala

Grantee: Women and Media Collective (WMC)Partner organizations: N/ACountry of focus: Sri LankaGrant period: November 2025 – January 2027

Grantee: Women and Media Collective (WMC)
Partner organizations: N/A
Country of focus: Sri Lanka
Grant period: November 2025 – January 2027

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Life After Life: Future of Work in Bangladesh

A foresight based research exploring Bangladesh’s future of work to identify key trends, weak signals of change and requisite policy actions to inform policies.

Grantee: Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD)
Grant period: January 2025 – October 2026
Country of focus: Bangladesh

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Gender Implications of Future of Work in South Asia: The Challenges of Technological Change and Climate Transition in Garment Manufacturing in Bangladesh and India

Understanding sustainable jobs for women in Bangladesh and India’s garment sector by addressing automation, climate transition, skill gaps, and policy reforms.

Grantee: South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM)
Grant period: January 2025 – April 2027
Country of focus: Bangladesh and India

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The Care Economy Roadmap for Sri Lanka: Charting the Way-Forward

This project aims to develop a comprehensive roadmap to
strengthen Sri Lanka’s care economy.

Grantee: Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA)
Partner organizations: N/A
Grant period: January 2025 – April 2027
Country of focus: Sri Lanka

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Digital Disruption and Climate Stress: Assessing Impacts on Nursing Work and Charting a Resilient, Equitable, and Gender-Responsive Work Landscape

This project identifies policies to address negative impacts of digitalization and climate change on Filipino nurses.

Grantee: Women in Global Health Philippines
Grant period: January 2025 – October 2026
Country of focus: Philippines

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Opportunity and resilience in the Philippine platform labor economy: Policy imperatives for skills development and social protection amid climate and technological changes

Exploring resilience in platform labor in the Philippine context, this project addresses skills development and social protection amid technological advancements and climate change.

Grantee: De La Salle University – Social Development Research Center (DLSU-SDRC)
Grant period: January 2025 – October 2026
Country of focus: Philippines

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Bridging Policy Pathways for an Inclusive Future of Work

On 20th of August 2025, LIRNEasia, together with the Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA) and the Sri Lanka and Maldives office of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) convened a policy round table discussion titled Bridging Policy Pathways for an Inclusive Future of Work. The round table brought together key stakeholders from the public and private sectors including policymakers, trade union and corporate representatives and practitioners, together with regional experts through the FutureWORKS Asia network, an initiative funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada. Regional experts included Selim Raihan (PhD) of SANEM, Cheryll Ruth Soriano (PhD) of De La Salle University (Philippines), Jayvy Gamboa of Manila Observatory (Philippines), Towfiqul Islam Khan of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (Bangladesh), Balwant Mehta (PhD) of the Institute for Human Development (India), and Reiner Lorenzo Tomayo of Women in Global Health Philippines, and Gayani Hurulle of LIRNEasia. Opening remarks were delivered by Joni Simpson of the International Labor Organisation (Sri Lanka and the Maldives), with sub-themes of the discussion moderated by Helani Galpaya of LIRNEasia, Gayathri Lokuge (PhD) of CEPA, and Sabina Dewan from the JustJobs Network. The objective of the discussion was to explore critical policy themes shaping the future of […]

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Pathways to Collective Power: Testing Models for Organizing Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Workers in the Philippine Digital Labor Sector

Climate Change and the Future of Work in Sri Lankan Cities

Beyond the Platform: Social Insurance for Gig Workers in Bangladesh

Fields Without Safety Nets: Analysis of Gendered Informality in the Agricultural Sector and Cost of Social Insecurity

Adapting to the AI Revolution: A Gender-Responsive Skilling Framework for Workers Aged 40 and Over (AISkill40+)

Heat, Health, and Gender: Climate Risks and Decent Work in South Asia’s Garment Sector

Gender-Responsive Energy Transition in Sri Lanka: Insights from Mannar and Monaragala

Life After Life: Future of Work in Bangladesh

Gender Implications of Future of Work in South Asia: The Challenges of Technological Change and Climate Transition in Garment Manufacturing in Bangladesh and India

The Care Economy Roadmap for Sri Lanka: Charting the Way-Forward

Digital Disruption and Climate Stress: Assessing Impacts on Nursing Work and Charting a Resilient, Equitable, and Gender-Responsive Work Landscape

Opportunity and resilience in the Philippine platform labor economy: Policy imperatives for skills development and social protection amid climate and technological changes

Bridging Policy Pathways for an Inclusive Future of Work

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