Meeting documents

February 2013

  1. Meeting document

    Report of the Director-General: First Supplementary Report: Measuring decent work

    12 February 2013

    The document reports and reviews activities related to measuring decent work since 2008. The future of the Office’s work on this area is being addressed within the context of current Office-wide review of research, statistics and knowledge management functions. The Governing Body is invited to review and comment on the report.

  2. Meeting document

    Approval of the minutes of the 316th Session of the Governing Body

    12 February 2013

  3. Meeting document

    The post-2015 sustainable development agenda

    12 February 2013

    Discussion on the post-2015 sustainable development agenda in the Working Party will be opened by a panel of leading personalities engaged in the debate. This paper is intended to provide background information and suggest issues for discussion between the Governing Body and the panel members, which can inform and deepen the ILO’s strategy for the adoption of full and productive employment and decent work as an explicit goal of the global development agenda beyond 2015.

  4. Meeting document

    Sectoral Activities Programme 2012–13

    11 February 2013

    The Governing Body is invited to take note of the outcomes of sectoral meetings held in the second part of 2012 and proposals made in relation to the holding of two sectoral meetings scheduled for the second half of 2013 (see the draft decisions in paragraphs 10 and 17).

  5. Meeting document

    Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (MNE Declaration): Operational plan for promotional activities and proposal for the new survey

    11 February 2013

    The Governing Body is invited to endorse the operational plan for promoting the MNE Declaration; to adopt the recommendations of the Ad Hoc Working Group concerning the survey (paragraphs 16–22) and resume surveys on the effect given to the MNE Declaration; to approve the draft questionnaires and request the Office to conduct the Ninth Survey; and to decide on financial arrangements for this purpose (see the draft decision in paragraph 20).

  6. Meeting document

    Prevention of occupational diseases

    11 February 2013

    This paper examines the scale and dynamic nature of occupational diseases and the challenges associated with their prevention. Based on the experiences and lessons learned in the recognition and prevention of occupational diseases, it describes the Office strategy and invites the Governing Body to provide guidance on how to enhance the effectiveness of action to prevent occupational diseases (see the draft decision in paragraph 42).

  7. Meeting document

    Short overview of selected highlights of sectoral work carried out in the second half of 2012

    11 February 2013

    This document provides a short overview of selected highlights of sectoral work carried out between August 2012 and December 2012.

  8. Meeting document

    Technical cooperation approaches and capacity development of constituents

    11 February 2013

    This paper: (a) reports on the results of the mapping of technical cooperation approaches, including capacity development of constituents; and (b) makes proposals on how the current technical cooperation strategy could be geared towards a more programmatic approach to capacity development through technical cooperation. This paper is intended to contribute to the ongoing technical cooperation delivery review and a possible, subsequent revision of the technical cooperation strategy. The Governing Body requests the Office to submit a document containing a revised technical cooperation strategy with capacity development as one focus area at its 322nd Session (November 2014) (see the draft decision in paragraph 17).

  9. Meeting document

    Follow-up to the report of the Chief Internal Auditor for the year ended 31 December 2011

    11 February 2013

    This paper provides details of actions undertaken by the Office as follow-up to the Chief Internal Auditor’s recommendations for 2011. The Governing Body is invited to discuss them and provide guidance on the way forward.

  10. Meeting document

    ILO performance information: Improvements in the quality of results reporting

    11 February 2013

    This paper provides an update on work undertaken by the Office to strengthen the reporting of results of the ILO programmes, as captured in the biennial report on implementation. This work is meant to inform the preparation of the ILO programme implementation 2012–13.

  11. Meeting document

    Pensions questions, decisions of the United Nations General Assembly on the report of the Board of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund

    08 February 2013

  12. Meeting document

    Sectoral Activities Programme: Proposals for 2014–15

    08 February 2013

    This paper contains the Office’s proposals for work on sectoral levels for 2014–15, developed through a participative consultative process with tripartite constituents and other ILO units.

  13. Meeting document

    Decisions of the United Nations General Assembly on the report of the International Civil Service Commission

    08 February 2013

  14. Meeting document

    Review of annual reports under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work

    08 February 2013

    In the present document, the Governing Body is invited to take note of the information submitted under the Annual Review for the period 2012–13 and to provide guidance on key issues and priorities for helping member States to respect, promote and realize fundamental principles and rights at work (see the draft decision in paragraph 127).

  15. Meeting document

    Amendments to the Staff Regulations:Review of recruitment and selection procedures

    07 February 2013

  16. Meeting document

    Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (Geneva, 21 November–7 December 2012)

    07 February 2013

  17. Meeting document

    Report for the tripartite Meeting of Experts on Forced Labour and Trafficking for Labour Exploitation

    01 February 2013

    Report for discussion at the Tripartite Meeting of Experts concerning the possible adoption of an ILO instrument to supplement the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No.29) - Geneva, 11─15 February 2013

  18. Meeting document

    Matters relating to the Administrative Tribunal of the ILO

    01 February 2013

  19. Meeting document

    Pensions questions: Report of the Board of the Special Payments Fund

    01 February 2013

  20. Meeting document

    Promotion of the ratification of the Instrument for the Amendment of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation, 1986

    01 February 2013

    The Governing Body is invited to consider up-to-date information on the campaign to promote the ratification of the Instrument for the Amendment of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation, 1986 (see the draft decision in paragraph 7).