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)
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February 2012
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Local Economic Development (LED project and management
28 February - 1 March 2012, Manila
The local government units (LGUs) play 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, Japan Vocational Ability Development Associate (JAVADA), Sendai, Japan
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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Public-Private partnership forum for youth employment in Agusan del Sur
24 February 2012, Agusan del Sur
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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Awareness-Raising Workshop on Employment Policy
23 February 2012, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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, Lake Toba, North Sumatra, Indonesia
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, Masbate City, Masbate
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, Chittagong, Bangladesh
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, Butuan City
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, Masbate
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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ILO-IPEC consultant on resource-mapping visits Masbate
21 - 23 February 2012, Masbate City, Masbate
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, Lake Toba, North Sumatra, Indonesia
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, Samutprakarn, Thailand
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.
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Training of Trainers (ToT) for Ecotour Guides
16 February 2012, Lake Toba, North Sumatra, Indonesia
The training is designed in a way to encourage the participants to be active and propose ideas on how to think, act, train, and advocate to other people on the principles of community-environment-tourism to support the achievement of sustainable tourism in Lake Toba area.
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Public-Private partnership forum for youth employment in Antique
16 February 2012, Antique
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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ILO-IPEC consultant on resource-mapping visits Northern Samar
15 - 18 February 2012, Northern Samar Province
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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National consultation on reviews of mechanisms that address migrant worker grievances in Sri Lanka and in Labour Receiving Countries
13 February 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka
In 2011,the ILO country office commissioned two studies to review grievance redress mechanism available to Sri Lankan migrant workers within Sri Lanka and countries of employment. The aim of commissioning these reviews were to support the improvement of the current systems of migrant worker grievance handling mechanisms. The objective of the National consultation is to share the findings of both reviews and to obtain stakeholder views and comments on the findings, conclusions and recommendations in each report.This forum will be the foundation for the next phase of this initiative which includes a meeting of the diplomatic missions in the Labour receiving countries and the formulation of a new operational framework for diplomatic missions in addressing migrant worker issues.
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Occupational Safety and Health training for trade unions and social partners working in the Socialized Housing sector of the Philippines
13 - 17 February 2012, OSH Center, Quezon City, Philippines
A five day occupational safety and health training will be delivered to broaden the knowledge of trade union representatives and social partners working in the Socialized Housing sector. Participants will learn about tools and methods to implement OSH at designated construction sites.
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ILO-IPEC holds partners' forum
13 - 14 February 2012, Pasay City
The IPEC Project will gather all its partners to level off on strategies, discuss updates and together develop measures to improve implementation.
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National workshop on Anticipating skills demand and strengthening labour market information system
9 February 2012, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
The workshop, organized by the Department General of Technical Vocational Education Training (DGTVET) of Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training (MOLVT) of the Royal Government of Cambodia and ILO/Japan, brought together 74 participants from the government institutions (majority of which were from MOLVT and National Employment Agencies), workers' and employers' organizations and identified key conceptual and practical challenges and proposed measures in response to these challenges in strengthening labour market information system and anticipating skills demand which are essential elements to the sustainable and inclusive development of Cambodia's economy.
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The Launch of a New Publication: “Trade and Employment: From Myths to Facts”
7 February 2012, Jakarta, Indonesia
In the era of globalization most economists and policy-makers have asserted, that trade liberalization has a strong potential to contribute to growth and that those effects will be beneficial for employment. However, survey evidence illustrates that negative perceptions of the labour market effects of trade are frequent and persistent among the population, in particular in the industrialized world but increasingly also in developing countries.