Events and meetings

June 2019

  1. The World Employment Programme: Past, present and future

    4 June 2019

    The event will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the launch of the World Employment Programme and its contributions to the work of the ILO, its members, and will reflect on the lessons learned from the past to influence present and future approaches.

May 2019

  1. The Decent Jobs for Youth Annual Conference

    28 - 29 May 2019

    The Decent Jobs for Youth annual conference in 2019 will run under the theme Rights and Voices of Youth, promoting an inclusive and rights-based youth employment agenda that allows youth to find their voice and advance their interests.

  2. Training course on Public Employment Programmes

    27 - 31 May 2019

    This five-day training course prepares policy makers to achieve SDGs through effective design and implementation of PEPs for poverty reduction, decent work, sustainable and labour standards.

  3. STRENGTHEN: Global Knowledge-Sharing Workshop

    14 - 15 May 2019

  4. Assessing the impact of structural reforms: The case of Portugal

    3 May 2019

April 2019

  1. Precision agriculture technologies for smallholder farmers of India: Potential impacts, affordability and policy perspectives

    23 April 2019

  2. Aspirations and the Future of Work: Global Evidence

    19 April 2019

  3. Skills Development and the Future of Work in Bangladesh

    12 April 2019

    This seminar provided a platform to exchange lessons learned on skills development and discuss policy responses by the Government of Bangladesh in the context of the Future of Work.

  4. Workshop on Quality Apprenticeships held in West Africa

    2 - 4 April 2019

    This three-day workshop, organized as part of the Global Initiative for Decent Youth Employment, examined the challenges and opportunities for a quality apprenticeship system in the six West African countries participating in the event.

  5. Workshop on Quality Apprenticeships in West Africa

    2 - 4 April 2019

    This three-day workshop, organized as part of the Global Initiative for Decent Youth Employment, examined the challenges and opportunities for a quality apprenticeship system in the six participating countries in West Africa.

  6. Recent Policy Innovations for Decent Work in Korea: Supporting Employment through Social and Financial Subsidies

    1 April 2019

March 2019

  1. Evolving employment challenges in the Basque Country

    11 March 2019

February 2019

  1. Know About Business (KAB) training for teachers in Marshall Islands

    25 February - 2 March 2019

    The ILO in collaboration with the Ministry of Education(MoE) and Public School System (PSS) is delivering a KAB training for teacher in Marshall Islands from 25th February – 2nd March 2019 in Majuro, Marshall Islands.

  2. If You Want Peace & Development, Work for Social Justice

    20 February 2019

    Special event on the World Day of Social Justice

  3. ILO-Norway “SKILL-UP” Partnership Programme meet to examine progress and plans by the end of the year

    14 February 2019

    The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) invited representatives of the ILO’s SKILLS Branch and ILO’s Partnerships for Development Department (PARDEV) to Oslo on 14 February to examine progress on Phase II of the Norway-ILO Programme Collaboration Agreement (PCA).

January 2019

  1. Achieving Equal Pay: Lessons from the ILO 2018-2019 Global Wage Report and Global Stakeholders

    17 January 2019

December 2018

  1. The ILO and the United Nations Climate Change Conference - COP24

    2 - 14 December 2018

    The twenty-four session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) will be held in Katowice, Poland on 2-14 December 2018. As an observer organization, the ILO seeks to contribute to global negotiations and national actions against climate change, while promoting opportunities for decent work creation and ensuring a just transition for all.

November 2018

  1. Academy on the transition to the formal economy - Take action

    12 - 23 November 2018

  2. Panel discussion on Jobs for Peace and Resilience

    9 November 2018

    The event “Jobs for Peace and Resilience” is organized in the context of the Geneva Peace Week 2018, which will take place from 5 to 9 November, in collaboration wth the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Centre on Conflict, Development & Peacebuilding (CCDP) and the Permanent Mission of Switzerland.

October 2018

  1. Greening with Jobs: A Just Transition to Sustainability

    23 October 2018

    This Nexus Dialogue aims to contribute to a common understanding of the concept of just transition, establish a global platform to share national and international experiences in the practical application of greening with jobs and just transition in national contexts; and foster support by both public and private stakeholders for social justice in the fight for environmental sustainability.