Regional meetings

Past meetings

1. 

   15th Asia and the Pacific Regional Meeting

   4 - 7 December 2011, Kyoto

   The Meeting will consider the challenges of realizing decent work across Asia and the Pacific, mindful of the region’s great diversity, the impact of natural disasters and rapidly changing social, economic and political developments in the Middle East.

2. 

   12th African Regional Meeting

   11 - 14 October 2011, Johannesburg

   The proposed agenda of the Meeting is to discuss progress made by the countries in the region towards achieving the targets set by the Decent Work Agenda in Africa, 2007-15, adopted by the 11th African Regional Meeting, as well as to set out future priority actions for the region to achieve the Decent Work Agenda in Africa.

3. 

   Seventeenth American Regional Meeting

   14 - 17 December 2010, Santiago, Chile

   At four-yearly intervals, the American Regional Meeting brings together the political, economic and social actors from the countries of the Region. This Seventeenth Meeting will focus particularly on the themes taken up in the Director-General's report, which sets out the basis for the discussions and for strategic planning for the ILO's programme for the Region in the years to come.

4. 

   8th European Regional Meeting

   9 - 13 February 2009, Lisbon, Portugal

   The 8th European Regional Meeting (ERM) will provide the space for governments and worker and employer organisations, from across Europe and Central Asia, to come together and shape the ILO's future strategy in the European and Central Asian member countries of the ILO. There will also be a high level panel discussion with Prime Ministers from several European countries and representatives from worker and employer organisations.

5. 

   Eleventh African Regional Meeting

   24 - 27 April 2007, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

   At four yearly intervals, the African Regional Meeting brings together the political, economic and social actors from the countries of the region.

6. 

   Fourteenth Asian Regional Meeting

   29 August - 1 September 2006, Busan, Republic of Korea

   The overall theme of the 14th AsRM is Realizing Decent Work in Asia. The concept of decent work encompasses employment creation and enterprise promotion, social protection, rights at work and social dialogue. The Meeting will identify the opportunities and challenges for realizing decent work as the main pathway out of poverty and for creating a more productive and equitable society in Asia.