Events and meetings

June 2011

1. Promoting Labour Standards through Corporate Social Responsibility: instruments and practices

   20 - 24 June 2011, International Training Centre of the ILO (ITC-ILO), Turin, Italy

April 2011

1. Green Jobs Learning Forum

   4 - 22 April 2011, ITC Turin, Italy

   This interagency Learning Forum provides participants with knowledge, tools and examples of good practices to enhance their skills in the design and implementation of effective local strategies for the promotion of green jobs.

March 2011

1. Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value - How do We Get There?

   29 - 29 March 2011, Webinar - ILO and UN Global Compact Office

   Tuesday 29 March 2011 - Webinar convened by the ILO and the UN Global Compact Office

December 2010

1. Monitoring and Impact Evaluation of Youth Employment Programmes

   6 - 10 December 2010, International Training Centre of the ILO (ITC-ILO), Turin, Italy

November 2010

1. 

   Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

   29 November - 10 December 2010, Cancun, Mexico

   The ILO participates actively in the climate change negotiations at the Conference of the Parties (COP 16) under the United Nation Convention on Climate change (UNFCCC), taking place in Cancun, Mexico, from 29 November to 10 December 2010.

October 2010

1. Interregional Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy

   25 - 29 October 2010, ITC-ILO (Turin)

   The International Training Center of the ILO, based in Turin is organizing, jointly with the European Economic and Social Committee, the first edition of the Interregional Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy

2. Implementing labour principles in global supply chains

   13 - 15 October 2010, International Training Centre of the ILO (ITC-ILO), Turin, Italy

August 2010

1. Implementing Labour Standards through Corporate Social Responsibility: tools and strategies

   30 August - 3 September 2010, International Training Centre of the ILO (ITC-ILO), Turin, Italy

June 2010

1. Summer Academy on Sustainable Enterprise Development

   21 June - 2 July 2010, ILO-ITC, Turin, Italy

   Summer 2010 Edition, Deadline for registration: 21 May 2010

2. John Ruggie’s “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Business and Human Rights Framework

   3 June 2010, Geneva, Switzerland - Room XII, Palais des Nations

   Professor John Ruggie, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, presented his "protect, respect and remedy" framework, laying the foundations of a system for better managing business and human rights challenges.

May 2010

1. “Green jobs in Africa” – Regional training course

   17 - 21 May 2010, Nairobi, Kenya

   The objective of the course is to empower participants to provide meaningful inputs to national debates and policy making on the social and labour dimensions of climate change.

2. Strategies for LED: Focus on Green Jobs

   10 - 21 May 2010, ITC ILO, Turin, Italy

   What social and economic opportunities can arise from greener local systems? What are the key drivers of green employment? How can local communities invest to improve the quality of their environment and generate decent jobs at the local level? What participatory mechanisms can be used to foster sustainable social, economic, environmental and institutional development at the local, provincial or regional level? These are some of the questions that will be addressed during the Seminar to be held from 10 - 21 May 2010 at the International Training Centre of the ILO in Turin, Italy

November 2009

1. Creating an enabling environment for sustainable small enterprise development

   30 November - 11 December 2009, Turin, Italy

   Audience: Government, employers' and workers' representatives; business environment reform programmes; small enterprise development projects.

October 2009

1. The social economy – Africa’s response to the global crisis

   19 - 21 October 2009, Johannesburg, South Africa

   This conference will bring together social economy promoters and stakeholders from Africa, government representatives from 15 African countries, employers’ and workers’ organisations, social economy organisations from other parts of the world, and ILO HQ units and field specialists to adopt an action programme aiming at mobilising the social economy in Africa in response to the crisis, at local, national and regional levels.

May 2009

1. Strategies for local economic development management

   18 - 29 May 2009, Turin, Italy

   Audience: Local, regional and national government officials concerned with local economic development or planning; experts from international organizations; staff of NGOs and other bodies dealing with local development; representatives of workers' or employers' organizations; private sector consultants advising governments on local development issues; economists; other social scientists.

March 2009

1. Turin training course on: Sustainable enterprise promotion through good workplace practice and human resource management

   16 - 27 March 2009, Turin, Italy

   ILO constituents; executives and managers with influence on and responsibility for human resource management; enterprise development agencies.

2. InFocus Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility, During the March 2009 Governing Body

   8 - 20 March 2009, ILO - Geneve, Switzerland

February 2009

1. Turin training course on "Promoting the ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (ILO MNE Declaration)”

   11 - 13 February 2009, Turin, Italy

December 2008

1. The Labour Dimension of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): from principles to practice

   10 - 12 December 2008, International Training Centre of the ILO (ITC-ILO), Turin, Italy

   Audience: the course is designed for ILO constituents and professionals involved with CSR and labour practices issues, such as project managers, executives and technical experts from: Enterprises of all sectors and sizes, Workers’ and employers’ organizations and Governments

October 2008

1. Inter Agency Conference on Local Economic Development

   22 - 24 October 2008, Turin, Italy

   The Turin Inter-Agency Conference on LED (22-24 Oct) concluded with a round of recommendations to improve knowledge sharing and build practical partnerships (to find the reports of the Conference, see below). Leave your comments about the conference on the BLOG! See link above.