Events and meetings

November 2010

1. Sub-regional Training Workshop on Participatory and Gender Sensitive in Value Chain Analysis and Development

   15 - 18 November 2010, Ninh Binh, Viet Nam

   The workshop aims to help Viet Nam Cooperative Alliance (VCA) practioners to understand the relevance of gender mainstreaming in value chain work; refresh understanding of value chains and value chain analysis cycle; explore the concept of participation and action learning, specifically from a gender and value chain perspective; develop skills in mapping for value chain analysis and practiced stakeholder mapping.

2. LMIA Mission - Strengthening Labour Market Information and Analysis in the Pacific through Regional Partnership and Capacity Building

   15 - 26 November 2010, Suva, Fiji

   A joint mission aims to strengthen the need assessment and to mobilise resources with partners (i.e. SPC, PIFS, UNESCAP, World Bank, Australia & New Zealand) in support of LMIA in the Pacific.

3. Training on Gender Sensitive Value Chain Analysis

   15 - 18 November 2010, Hanoi, Viet Nam

   Targets key constituents organizations and ILO staff from Cambodia, Lao PDR and Viet Nam who base their development interventions on value chain research and who wish to integrate gender equality concerns and participatory techniques into this research.

4. Development Cooperation Seminar on the Social Protection Floor ‘Social protection: Towards universal coverage in Thailand’

   5 November 2010, Bangkok, Thailand

   The purpose of this fifth Development Cooperation Seminar,co hosted by National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB), is to bring together high-level government officials, international organizations, academia, employers and civil society to review the current social protection system in the Thailand within the context of the international debate on the social protection floor.It will give an opportunity to participants to review over the existing gaps and challenges to explore how Thailand can move towards the development of a coherent social protection system to make basic coverage a reality for All.

5. A Series of Step-down Workshops on Financial Education for Migrant Workers and Their Families

   2 - 30 November 2010, Six districts in West Java, Central Java, West Nusa Tenggara, and West Kalimantan Provinces, Indonesia

   Realizing to the poor understanding of migrant workers towards financial services and accesses, ILO Jakarta through its Combating Forced Labour and Trafficking of Indonesian Migrant Workers Project is developing a financial education programme for migrant workers and their families. The program will directly collaborate with migrant-based organizations (NGOs and migrant unions) as well as government in order to sustainably provide direct assistance to migrant workers and their families on financial services and accesses as well as income planning and management.

6. World Integrated Trade Solution Training

   2 - 3 November 2010, Jakarta, Indonesia

   The training is aimed to build the capacity of social partners and government officials to analyse the effects of trade on employment and formulate coherent trade and employment policies.

7. International Labour Standards, the ILO Supervisory System and Reporting Obligations Workshop

   1 November 2010, Suva, Fiji

   The ILO Country Office for South Pacific Island Countries hosted a one day workshop on International Labour Standards, the ILO Supervisory System and Reporting Obligations.

October 2010

1. ILO Workshop on Occupational Safety and Health (OSH)of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SME) in Selected ASEAN Countries

   29 October 2010, Tokyo, Japan

   ILO Workshop on Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SME) in Selected ASEAN Countries aims to provide a useful forum to exchange practical experiences to improve OSH in SMEs in selected ASEAN countries, namely, Malaysia, Thailand and Viet Nam and also Japan. The Workshop is organized within the framework of an ILO project on “Effective Implementation of National OSH Programme for Improving Safety and Health at the Workplace in Vietnam”, funded by ILO/Japan multibilateral programme.

2. Pacific Regional Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 - Tripartite Ratification Workshop

   27 - 28 October 2010, Nadi, Fiji

   The workshop brings together seafarers, ship owners and government labour and maritime officers from Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu to promote the ratification and implementation of the MLC Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 in the Pacific.

3. ILO/Japan Fellowship Training to Improve Occupational Safety and Health in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

   25 - 29 October 2010, Tokyo, Japan

   The fellowship training aims to provide participants with experiences and practical ideas for improving safety, health and working conditions of SMEs and also on national strategies and polices for SMEs, with a particular focus on enabling and supporting action at workplace level.

4. Visioning Event for an ILO Asia Pacific Community of Practice (CoP) on Migration

   25 - 27 October 2010, Chiang Mai, Thailand

   Interactive networks of committed professionals bound by a common interest in various subject areas.

5. The 3rd Mekong Youth Forum on Human Trafficking and Migration (MYF3)

   24 - 30 October 2010, Bangkok, Thailand

   This regional event hosted by the Government of Thailand and co-organised by the ILO (TRIANGLE project), World Vision, Save the Children UK, and UNIAP brings together five young people from each of the six Mekong countries to discuss their experiences of migration and human trafficking.

6. The Role of Trade Unions in Youth Employment

   19 - 21 October 2010, Colombo, Sri Lanka

7. ILO-Asian Institute of Management (AIM) knowledge corner partnership

   18 October 2010, Manila, Philippines

   The ILO in partnership with the Asian Institute of Management AIM), entered into a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) that would establish and run a Knowledge Corner.

8. ILO/Korea Fellowship Training on Employment Insurance (EI) and Employment Injury Insurance (EII) in collaboration with the Korea Workers’ Compensation and Welfare Service (COMWEL) and the Korea International Labour Foundation (KOILAF)

   11 - 15 October 2010, Seoul, Republic of Korea

   at Vabien Hotel, Seoul, Republic of Korea from 11-15 October 2010

9. Regional training programme for Trade Unionists on Child Labour

   11 - 13 October 2010, Colombo, Sri Lanka

   Module based training programme for selected trade unionists

10. Regional Conference towards a Domestic Workers’ Convention

    7 - 9 October 2010, Jakarta, Indonesia

    With the recent release of the ILO Third Report on Decent Work for Domestic Workers, or more commonly referred to as the Brown Report, much debate has erupted about the proposed Convention and supplementary Recommendation concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers that is due to be voted in June 2011 at the 100th session of the International Labour Conference (ILC) in Geneva.

11. ILO/Japan Greener Business Asia - Research Validation Meeting

    7 October 2010, Meeting Room F, UNCC, Bangkok, Thailand

    This Research Validation Meeting aims to endorse the research findings in Thailand, select one sector of intervention to enterprise level and provide guidance and direction to the subsequent enterprise level intervention.

12. Communicating labour rights: A training course for media professionals (Asia and the Pacific)

    4 - 8 October 2010, Bangkok, Thailand

    A training course for media professionals in Asia and the Pacific. The course is designed to equip journalists and other media professionals to handle work-related issues in an effective way, broadening their news agendas and improving their reporting and analysis and its relevance to readers, viewers and listeners.

September 2010

1. Social dialogue on informal economy and decent work

   28 - 29 September 2010, Jakarta, Indonesia

   Despite Indonesian unemployment and poverty rate is being declining, the share of informal economy in total employment has increased as a consequence of the recent financial and economic crisis.