Events and meetings

March 2010

1. Promoting Economic Diversity in Ukraine: skills, export promotion and business enabling environment in the basic metal and metal processing industry

   16 March 2010, Kiev, Ukraine

2. Promoting Economic Diversity in Ukraine: The role of the business enabling environment, skills policies and export promotion

   16 March 2010, Kiev, Ukraine

3. Strategies for LED: Focus on Green Jobs

   11 March 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

4. 

   ILO Conference on "People with intellectual disabilities: Opening pathways to training and employment in the African region"

   09 March 2010, Lusaka, Zambia

   In Africa, some 10 to 15 million people have an intellectual disability. Because of stigma and discrimination, a majority are excluded from education, training and employment and live in poverty and isolation. To help meet the challenge of more equitable access to vocational training and employment opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities, the ILO-Irish Aid Partnership Programme organized a sub-regional conference in Lusaka, Zambia in early March on the issue.

December 2009

1. Expert meeting on Assessing and Addressing the Effects of Trade on Employment

   14 December 2009, ILO, Geneva, Switzerland

2. International Day of Persons with Disabilities

   03 December 2009, ILO

   This year's theme for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities - "Making the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Inclusive: Empowerment of persons with disabilities and their communities around the world" - supports the message of challenging exclusion. It aims to highlight the need to continue to work for the mainstreaming of persons with disabilities in all aspects of society and development if the MDGs of reducing poverty are to be achieved.

November 2009

1. Training at the ILO's ITC: "International trade and labour markets"

   16 November 2009, ILO International Training Centre, Turin, Italy

   ITCILO training course - A901359

2. 

   Panel Discussion on People with Disabilities in Times of Economic Crisis

   12 November 2009, Governing Body Room, 14.00-15.30

   ILO's Employment Sector's Disability Team organized a panel presentation followed by a discussion. The aim of the event was to examine how the current economic downturn is affecting women and men with disabilities and to advocate that they be included in measures to tackle the crisis.

3. Official Launch of the Post-Conflict Employment and Reintegration Policy

   04 November 2009, UN, Geneva, Switzerland

   Rebuilding Broken Places: UN Scales Up Sustainable Employment in Post-Conflict Settings

4. Regional meeting of best practices in youth policies and programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean

   04 November 2009, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

October 2009

1. WTO-ILO workshop on global trade and employment

   20 October 2009, WTO, Geneva, Switzerland

   WTO and ILO co-organized this workshop of leading international researchers to explore the knowledge frontier on the relationship between trade and employment.

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

   19 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.

3. Building Effective Youth Investment Programs: Experiences from Mediterranean Countries

   05 October 2009, Turin, Italy

   ITC Interagency course A901373

4. The 6th UNESCO Youth Forum

   01 October 2009, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France

September 2009

1. Making Cents International's 2009 Global Youth Enterprise Conference

   29 September 2009, Washington, D.C., USA

August 2009

1. Youth and the United Nations - International Youth Day

   12 August 2009, UN Headquarters, New York, USA

June 2009

1. Tackling youth employment problems

   29 June 2009, Turin, Italy

   ITC Course A901291

2. Regional workshop on Formulating National Youth Policies and Action Plans

   10 June 2009, Honiara, Solomon Islands

May 2009

1. World Creative Youth Forum 2009 (WCYF 2009)

   05 May 2009, Manilla, Philippines

April 2009

1. Global Youth Service Day

   24 April 2009, Global