October 2011

1. Enterprise Program – Pilot Training in the Hotel Sector (Thailand)

   10 October 2011 - 30 June 2012

   The Greener Business Asia pilot tests a package of training resources to assist hotels make their operations more environmentally-friendly and achieve safer and more productive workplaces.

2. DOLE-LABOR SECTOR-AFP-PNP Summit on the Protection and Promotion of Workers' Right to Self-organization and Collective Bargaining: Luzon Summit (NCR, CAR, Regions I, II, III, IV-A and IV-B)

   10 October 2011

   With the commitment of the Philippine government to strengthen the operational capability of the law enforcement bodies to foster an enabling environment for the enjoyment of the constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties and trade union rights, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), through the Bureau of Labor Relations, proposes to conduct expanded follow-through activities to the 21 July 2011 DOLE-Labor Sector-AFP Summit on the Protection and Promotion of Workers Rights with the theme “Karapatan ng Manggagawang Pilipino…Kapit-bisig Isulong Patungo sa Kaunlaran at Kapayapaan”.

3. Project Management Training for Implementing Agencies

   10 - 12 October 2011

   At the end of the training, ILO's implementing agencies shall have: (a) deepened their understanding and know-how of ILO's financial and technical reporting requirements; (b) strengthened their planning and implementation skills in relation to their respective action programmes; (c) acquired project management techniques to help them facilitate implementation, monitoring, and control of their activities and work plans; and (d) prepared detailed individual agency work plans and a joint work plan with information on tasks, planned/actual start and finish dates, planned and actual work, etc.

4. The First National Conference of Domestic Workers in Thailand

   8 - 9 October 2011

   More than 150 domestic workers in Thailand, both Thais and migrants, participated in the First National Conference of Domestic Workers in Thailand on 8-9 October 2011. Stakeholders from the Government, trade unions and individual employers were also invited to participate in the event. The Declaration of the Rights of Domestic Workers in Thailand was unanimously adopted on 8 October 2011. Domestic workers also requested the Royal Thai Government to take immediate actions to adopt the Ministerial Regulation Concerning the Protection of Domestic Workers to ensure respect, dignity and labour rights for all domesitc workers in Thailand.

5. National Seminar on Employment Diagnostic Analysis: Strengthening the Focus on Productive Employment in Province-level Development Planning

   7 October 2011

   The workshop is amed to build capacity in employment diagnostic analysis among the ILO constituents and to reach a shared understanding of the nature of the main constraints and challenges to productive employment generation in Indonesia as a basis for a more coherent policy making at the provincial level.

6. Inter-Agency Round Table Discussion on Culture Sensitive Delivery of Development Services to Indigenous Peoples

   7 October 2011

   The ILO supports the Inter-Agency Round Table Discussion on Culture Sensitive Delivery of Development Services to Indigenous Peoples organized in partnership with the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) and the Senate Committee on Cultural Communities with Senator Loren Legarda as Chairperson.

7. Signing Ceremony for the Project Document of "Promoting Decent Work through Improved Migration Policy and its Application in Bangladesh"

   5 October 2011

   Signing Ceremony of the Project Document at the Economic Relations Division (ERD), Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, between the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh and International Labour Organization (ILO) & Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to implement the project titled “Promoting Decent Work through Improved Migration Policy and its Application in Bangladesh”on 5 October 2011.

8. Interactive Talkshow: “The Long Journey of Justice for Indonesian Migrant Workers”

   5 October 2011

   As the second largest sending country, some 700.000 documented Indonesian migrant workers leave the country for work abroad, primarily in East and South East Asia as well as the Middle East. Of these, 78 per cent work as domestic workers. In 2009, around 4.3 million Indonesians were estimated to be working abroad.

9. Technical Seminar on Impact and Lessons Learnt on School to Work Transition (The Closing Seminar of the ILO-EAST Project)

   4 - 5 October 2011

   ILO EAST is a four-year project (2007 – 2011) funded by the Government of Netherlands and executed by the International Labour Organization that aims (a) at improving the employability and capacity for entrepreneurship among young women and men through improved access to high-quality and relevant educational and training opportunities, and (b) at contributing to the elimination of child labour. The geographical coverage includes Papua, West Papua, East Nusa Tenggara, Maluku, South Sulawesi, and Aceh provinces.

10. DOLE-LABOR SECTOR-AFP-PNP Summit on the Protection and Promotion of Workers' Right to Self-organization and Collective Bargaining: Expanded Tripartite Sittings of the Tripartite Executive Committee (TEC) of Tripartite Industrial Peace Council (TIPC) as Drafting Committee

    4 October 2011

    With the commitment of the Philippine government to strengthen the operational capability of the law enforcement bodies to foster an enabling environment for the enjoyment of the constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties and trade union rights, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), through the Bureau of Labor Relations, proposes to conduct expanded follow-through activities to the 21 July 2011 DOLE-Labor Sector-AFP Summit on the Protection and Promotion of Workers Rights with the theme “Karapatan ng Manggagawang Pilipino…Kapit-bisig Isulong Patungo sa Kaunlaran at Kapayapaan”.

11. Employers Organizations: Enhanced effectiveness in membership promotion,retention, lobbying, services and sharing of policies,services on labour-trade issues

    4 - 5 October 2011

    The workshop is organized by International Training Centre of the ILO in Turin and the Dutch Employers Cooperation Programme (DECP) in collaboration with Bureau for Employers’ Activities (ACT-EMP) in Geneva and the support of the ILO Offices in New delhi and Sri Lanka to strengthen the employers’ organizations to perform more effectively by increasing the skills of key personnel and their capacity to boost the effectiveness of EOs in South Asia by sharing of practices on membership promotion /retention, services, lobbying in general, and with specific reference to lobbying/services on labour related issues in trade.

12. Training Seminar “Equality and Non-discrimination at Work”

    4 - 7 October 2011

    By the end of the training seminar, participants will be able to: 1) Understand the application of Convention No. 111 with focus on gender equality; 2)Understand concepts and approaches to eliminate discrimination, promote equality of opportunity and treatment and equal remuneration; 3)Understand a range of strategies, practical measures and tools from international and national experience to combat discrimination and promote equality in workplaces; and 4)Validate the Guide on Equality and non-discrimination at work in East and SE Asia for use in Vietnam.

13. ADB-ILO Seminar on Towards Higher Quality Employment in Asia

    3 October 2011

    The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Labour Organization’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ILO-ROAP) are co-organizing a seminar to discuss the policy challenge of improving job quality in Asia as a critical measure towards poverty alleviation, social inclusion and reducing inequalities.

14. Photo Exhibition on Migrant Workers - “The Long Road Home: Journeys of Indonesian Migrant Workers”

    2 - 5 October 2011

    As an effort to document the lives and migration experiences of Indonesian migrant domestic workers, the ILO in collaboration with Sim Chi Yin, a Singaporean photojournalist who is now based in Beijing, China, have developed a photo essay titled “The Long Road Home: Journeys of Indonesian Migrant Workers.”

15. Training of Trainer Workshops on SCREAM

    1 - 31 October 2011

    The workshops are expected of more than 170 staff members from implementing agencies and the project partners of the three project sites participating in the event. After the training workshops, participants will be able to conduct and implement education and social mobilization activities using writing, theater and arts performance at school and/or in communities regarding child labour and child rights.

September 2011

1. Launch of Photo Essay on Migrant Workers - “The Long Road Home: Journeys of Indonesian Migrant Workers”

   29 September 2011

   As an effort to document the lives and migration experiences of Indonesian migrant domestic workers, the International Labour Organization (ILO) is going to launch a photo essay titled “The Long Road Home: Journeys of Indonesian Migrant Workers” in Jakarta.

2. DOLE-LABOR SECTOR-AFP-PNP Summit on the Protection and Promotion of Workers' Right to Self-organization and Collective Bargaining: Expanded Tripartite Sittings of the Tripartite Executive Committee (TEC) of Tripartite Industrial Peace Council (TIPC) as Drafting Committee

   28 - 29 September 2011

   With the commitment of the Philippine government to strengthen the operational capability of the law enforcement bodies to foster an enabling environment for the enjoyment of the constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties and trade union rights, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), through the Bureau of Labor Relations, proposes to conduct expanded follow-through activities to the 21 July 2011 DOLE-Labor Sector-AFP Summit on the Protection and Promotion of Workers Rights with the theme “Karapatan ng Manggagawang Pilipino…Kapit-bisig Isulong Patungo sa Kaunlaran at Kapayapaan”.

3. Provincial Summit on Migration and Development-La Union

   26 September 2011

   Through the combined efforts of the International Labour Organization, the Provincial Government of La Union, and the Kanlungan Center Foundation, a Provincial Summit on Migration and Development will be held in La Union.

4. Training of Trainers Workshops on Child Labour

   25 - 28 September 2011

   The workshop aims at contributing to the Government’s efforts to eliminate child labour through raising awareness and enhancing knowledge on child labour issues for provincial stakeholders and project provincial implementers in combating child labour. It is also to equip potential resource trainers in Quang Nam province with knowledge on child labour and basic training skills for them to deliver training on the issue in the provinces.

5. JCCU–ILO Joint Study Programme for African Cooperative Leaders in Japan

   25 September - 2 October 2011

   The Japanese Consumers’ Co-operative Union (JCCU) and ILO, especially the Regional Office for Africa (ROAF), the Cooperative Facility for Africa (ILO/COOP Africa), and ILO-Tokyo, have been exchanging information on their activities and exploring possibility to collaborate in helping building up African cooperatives’ capacity in order to bring about a “renaissance” of the cooperative movement in Africa.