Events and meetings
The ILO organizes and takes part in a wide range of meetings, conferences, workshops and training events, throughout Asia Pacific. More information about the events listed below can be found by clicking on the relevant link, or by contacting the regional Meetings Unit (Email us)
March 2012
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Training Workshop for Staff of Cambodian Migrant Worker Resource Centres, 1-2 March 2012, Prey Veng Province, Cambodia.
1 March 2012
Staff of the three Migrant Worker Resource Centres (MRCs) in Cambodia received training to increase their knowledge and skills related to the provision of MRC services and MRC management. The training covered emigration procedures and the legal framework in Cambodia, admission policies and rights at work in Malaysia and Thailand, counselling services, networking, M&E, etc.
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Opening of Migrant Worker Resource Centres in Xaiyaboury and Champasack Province, Lao PDR
1 March 2012
Under the cooperation between the ILO TRIANGLE project and the Department of Employment and Skills Development, Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare of Lao PDR, the Migrant Worker Resource Centres (MRCs) in Xaiyaboury and Champasak provinces were officially opened in March. The MRCs provide potential migrants, return migrants and members of their families with information, counselling and legal advice related to safe and legal migration, rights at work, support services, etc. The centres also serve as a focal point of coordination between migrant workers, local authorities, recruitment agencies, and other key stakeholders. A third MRC, managed by the Lao Federation of Trade Unions, has been running in Savannakhet province since December 2011.
February 2012
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Highlights of the fourth tripartite Regional Seminar on industrial Relations: "Setting minimum wage and wage guidelines: Roles of tripartite partners and impact on industrial relations"
29 February - 1 March 2012
The 4th Regional Seminar of the ASEAN-ILO/Japan Industrial Relations Project was held with the thematic title “Setting Minimum Wage and Wage Guidelines: Roles of Tripartite Partners and Impact on Industrial Relations
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ILO and Cambodia sign decent work cooperation framework
29 February 2012
ILO and Cambodia signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on Decent Work Country Programme (2011-2015).
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High-Level Tripatriate Meeting to present the Diagnostic Report on FOA & CB and develop the National Plan of Action
29 February 2012
For presentation of the diagnostic assessment report on ‘Towards full freedom of association and collective bargaining in Bangladesh garment factories’ and to develop a national plan of action, the meeting was held on 28 February 2012 at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka.
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Fourth Tripartite Regional Seminar on Industrial Relations in the ASEAN Region: "Setting Minimum Wage and Wage Guidelines: Role of Tripartite Partners and Impact on Industrial Relations"
29 February - 1 March 2012
This tripartite regional seminar, organized by the ILO with the support of the Ministry of Labour of Thailand and the ASEAN Secretariat, under the theme "Setting Minimum Wage and Wage Guidelines: Role of Tripartite Partners and Impact on Industrial Relations", aims to provide opportunities for ASEAN member states (tripartite) to discuss and share experiences on different mechanisms/processes in setting national minimum wage as well as wage guidelines; and role of tripartite partners in the context of good industrial relations practices. The seminar is funded by the ILO/Japan Multi-bilateral Programme through its ASEAN-ILO/Japan Industrial Relations for ASEAN Integration project.
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Public-Private Partnership Forum for Youth Employment in Maguindanao
29 February 2012
The Millennium Development Goal Fund (MDG-F) Joint Programme on Alternatives to Migration: Decent Jobs for Filipino Youth through the through the ILO and in partnership with the Provincial Local Government Units (PLGUs) of Masbate, Antique, Maguindanao and Agusan del Sur will conduct Public-Private Partnership Forum for Youth Employment.
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Local Economic Development (LED Project and Management
28 February - 1 March 2012
The local government units (LGUs) played a pivotal role in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goal-Fund (MDG-F) Joint Programme on Alternatives to Migration: Decent Jobs for Filipino Youth in the four pilot provinces, namely Masbate, Antique, Agusan del Sur and Maguindanao.
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Regional Workshop and Study Programme on “Anticipating Skills Demands for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth”
27 February - 1 March 2012
The workshop is designed to provide opportunities for participating countries to improve knowledge on the analysis of future skill needs; develop proposals for how to meet future skill needs; identify the key elements to be included in a generic skills portfolio for the future; and learn how to provide advice on how to improve jobseekers’ awareness of sectors where there is demand for skills and of the qualifications required.
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National Conference on Promotion of Equality at Work in India: Manual Scavenging Practices
24 - 25 February 2012
The National Conference on Manual Scavenging Practices brought together a total of 62 persons from the Government, trade unions, UN agencies, national and international NGOs, civil society organizations, academicians and former manual scavengers. The main objective of the national seminar was to review and discuss the current situation regarding manual scavenging and to brainstorm and discuss practical and policy measures and solutions leading towards its elimination. The National Seminar built on key findings and observations derived from previous regional consultative meetings undertaken in the framework on the project and provided practical recommendations on the action to be taken to tackle manual scavenging in the country.
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Public-Private Partnership Forum for Youth Employment in Agusan del Sur
24 February 2012
The Millennium Development Goal-Fund (MDG-F) Joint Programme on Alternatives to Migration: Decent Jobs for Filipino Youth through the through the ILO and in partnership with the Provincial Local Government Units (PLGUs) of Masbate, Antique, Maguindanao and Agusan del Sur conducted Public-Private Partnership Forum for Youth Employment.
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Awareness-Raising Workshop on Employment Policy
23 February 2012
23 February 2012, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. A National awareness-raising workshop on employment policy was held to enhance the awareness and understanding of the need and importance of the policy and its development process.
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Roll-Out training for experienced ecotour guides
23 - 26 February 2012
One of the activities that would be undertaken by the Green Jobs in Asia project for the local stakeholders at the Lake Toba area is eco tour guide training in forms of Training of Trainers (ToTs) for the skilled tour guides and followed by a rollout training for beginners and experienced tour guides.
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Strategic planning of the Masbate Provincial Child Labor Committee
23 - 24 February 2012
The Masbate Provincial Child Labor Committee (PCLC) will have a two-day strategic planning to discuss how it can effectively complement the efforts of the IPEC Project in Masbate by covering other areas and other components to fully eliminate child labour in the province.
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Seminar on Sustainable Development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
22 - 29 February 2012
The changing socio-economic and environmental situation in the Chittagong Hill Tracts was at the centre of discussion at the seminar on sustainable development, which was jointly organized by the Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tract Affairs and Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) with support from ILO and UNDP. The seminar took place on January 24 at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka.
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Strategic Planning of the Indigenous People Para-legal Volunteer Groups’ under the Indigenous Peoples Development Programme- Caraga Region
21 - 22 February 2012
The demand for the services of Indigenous Peoples Para-Legal Volunteer Groups in the far-flung villages of Indigenous Peoples in the ancestral domains/project sites is gradually increasing. Representatives of the 8 Para-Legal Volunteer Groups under the Indigenous Peoples Development Programme in Caraga will meet to prepare their six-monthly plan of activities in collaboration with the Commission on Human Rights and the concerned Local Government Units (LGUs).
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Public-Private Partnership Forum for Youth Employment in Masbate
21 February 2012
The Millennium Development Goal-Fund (MDG-F) Joint Programme on Alternatives to Migration: Decent Jobs for Filipino Youth through the through the ILO and in partnership with the Provincial Local Government Units (PLGUs) of Masbate, Antique, Maguindanao and Agusan del Sur conducted Public-Private Partnership Forum for Youth Employment.
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ILO-IPEC consultant on resource-mapping visits Masbate
21 - 23 February 2012
The Strategic Development Cooperation - Asia (SDC) will continue work on validating the subsectors initially selected as basis for livelihood activities and subject these to further value chain analysis.
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Roll-Out Training for Beginner Ecotour Guides
20 - 22 February 2012
The main purpose of the roll-out training for ecotour guides therefore is to give experienced tour-guides and potential eco-tour guides the necessary skills to conduct their specific activity following the ecotour guide national competency standards as stipulated by the Indonesian Government.
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Workshop on the Development of a Joint Trade Unions Policy and Action Plan on the Protection of Migrant Workers
20 - 21 February 2012
The LCT/TTUC and NCPE and the ILO (TRIANGLE and IPEC projects) will organize a workshop to develop the trade unions' policy and plan of action to strengthen the role of trade unions and their union members in the protection of migrant workers. Participants for the workshop will come from male and female trade unionists of LCT, TTUC and NCPE and representatives from State Enterprises Workers' Relations Confederation (SERC), trade unionists from countries of origin, namely Federation Trade Union of Burma (FTUB), Seafarers Union of Burma and the Lao Federation of Trade Union (LFTU). In addition, a representative of the Malaysia Trade Union Congress (MTUC) will speak about their experience in extending protections to migrant workers in another major destination country in the region.