Events and meetings

October 2011

1. DOLE-LABOR SECTOR-AFP-PNP Summit on the Protection and Promotion of Workers' Right to Self-organization and Collective Bargaining: Mindanao Summit (Regions X, XI, XII, XIII, and IX)

   14 October 2011, Davao City, Philippines

   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”.

2. First meeting of the Policy Working Group on Assessing and Addressing the Effects of Trade on Employment(ETE).

   13 October 2011, Dhaka, Bangladesh

   The first meeting of the Policy Working Group on Assessing and Addressing the Effects of Trade on Employment (ETE) was held on 13 October at Ruposhi Bangla Hotel. The meeting was co-chaired by Mr. Ghulam Hossain, Secretary, Ministry of Commerce and Mr. Shafique Alam Mehdi, Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment. Mr André Bogui, Director, ILO Country Office for Bangladesh delivered the welcome speech.

3. Foundation Training workshop on Green Jobs for ILO constituents and partners

   13 - 14 October 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

   The two day programme will cover issues relating to Green Jobs such as the key concepts of Green Jobs; the importance of Green Jobs within the lexicon of Sustainable Businesses; regional perspectives and initiatives; the national legal regime for creating Green Jobs and the role of social partners in promoting Green Jobs for a just transition to a green development paradigm. The workshop will be structured around presentations; working group sessions and the analysis of local case studies for improvement and/or replication. This activity is funded by the Australia Government – ILO Partnership Agreement 2010-2015.

4. Foundation Training workshop on Green Jobs for ILO constituents and partners

   13 - 14 October 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

   The two programme will cover issues relating to Green Jobs such as the key concepts of Green Jobs; the importance of Green Jobs within the lexicon of Sustainable Businesses; regional perspectives and initiatives; the national legal regime for creating Green Jobs and the role of social partners in promoting Green Jobs for a just transition to a green development paradigm. The workshop will be structured around presentations; working group sessions and the analysis of local case studies for improvement and/or replication. This activity is funded by the Australia Government – ILO Partnership Agreement 2010-2015.

5. National Indigenous Cultural Summit

   13 October 2011, National Museum, Manila, Philippines

   The ILO supports the National Indigenous Cultural Summit, in partnership with the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) and the Senate Committee on Cultural Communities with Senator Loren Legarda as Chairperson. The summit will discuss results of regional assemblies on climate change and on ILO Convention 169. The summit will also feature a photo exhibit on development partnerships and cultures of indigenous peoples and an indigenous cultural presentation.

6. Direct Beneficiaries Monitoring and Reporting Training for Implementing Agencies

   13 - 14 October 2011, Masbate City, Masbate

   To enable the selected implementing agencies to effectively and efficiently implement their action programmes with particular attention being paid to high quality data on the direct beneficiaries, the project team has requested support to organize a workshop on Direct Beneficiaries Monitoring and Reporting (DBMR) for its partners to prepare them for the action programme implementation, monitoring, and reporting.

7. National Technical Seminar on the Formulation of the National Human Resources and Employment Policy

   13 - 14 October 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

   The ILO has provided strong technical support to many countries to develop their respective human resource and employment policies. A high level discussion of the findings of the ten thematic working groups and technical consultations in preparing background documents on the National Human Resources and Employment Policy.

8. DOLE-LABOR SECTOR-AFP-PNP Summit on the Protection and Promotion of Workers' Right to Self-organization and Collective Bargaining: Visayas Summit (Regions V, VI, VII, and VIII)

   12 October 2011, Cebu City, Philippines

   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”.

9. Users Training on Child Labour Knowledge Sharing System (CLKSS) for the Provincial Child Labour Committees

   12 October 2011, Masbate City, Masbate

   The establishment of a multi-level functional system on child labour is one of the strategy directions under the Philippine Program Against Child Labor (PPACL) Strategic Framework for 2007-2015. The IPEC Programme, through its strategy on knowledge management, will build the capacities of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), and other relevant government agencies and social partners has helped develop a system that would facilitate the utilization of data especially in support of national and local child labour policy development and programme design, implementation, and evaluation. This system is what we call the Child Labour Knowledge Sharing System (CLKSS).

10. Greener Business Asia - Pilot Training Programme in the Hotel Sector

    10 October 2011 - 31 March 2012, Phuket, Thailand

    This training is comprised by a training package for hotels followed by advisory services to be provided after the training for a period of 6 months. This activity is under Greener Business Asia Project

11. 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, Manila, Philippines

    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”.

12. Project Management Training for Implementing Agencies

    10 - 12 October 2011, Masbate City, Masbate

    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.

13. The First National Conference of Domestic Workers in Thailand

    8 - 9 October 2011, Bali, Indonesia

    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.

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

    7 October 2011, Bappenas, Jakarta, Indonesia

    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.

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

    7 October 2011, Ateneo Law School-Rockwell Complex, Makati City, Philippines

    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.

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

    5 October 2011, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    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.

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

    5 October 2011, Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta, Indonesia

    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.

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

    4 - 5 October 2011, Jakarta, Indonesia

    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.

19. 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, Occupational Safety and Health Center, Quezon City

    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”.

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

    4 - 5 October 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

    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.