19-23 October 2009, Turin, Italy Green Jobs: linking environment, climate change and the world of work What transitions are we witnessing and what changes do we need to
anticipate? How can decent work and green work match? How will the new
social agenda look like, in the aftermath of the international climate
change discussions? How can green jobs contribute to the way out of the
economic downturn? The training is
targeted at a wide range of social actors interested in the linkages
between environment, climate change and the world of work.
June 2009
15-17 June 2009, Geneva ILO Summit on the Global Jobs Crisis - 15-17 June 2009 Heads of State and Government, Vice-presidents, labour ministers and leaders from employers’ and workers’ organizations met in Geneva from June 15-17 for a Global Jobs Crisis Summit organized by the ILO.
The ILO summit provided a first-of-its-kind opportunity to discuss policies that are being implemented at the national and international level to address the global jobs crisis.
The three-day ILO summit, which was part of ILO’s International Labour Conference, included four high-level panels on the following topics: global and regional coordination, development cooperation, managing the national jobs agenda and rights at work, social dialogue and enterprise survival.
3 December 2008, Poznań, Poland ILO Side Event at the United Nations Climate Change Conference Co-hosted together with ITU, UNEP, ITUC and IOE, this event focuses on how ICT can help to shift from a high to a low carbon global economy and on the Green Jobs Initiative: towards decent work in a sustainable, low-carbon World. The event was chaired by Peter Poschen, ILO.
5 September 2008, Oslo, Norway High-Level Forum on “Decent Work: A Key to Social Justice for a Fair Globalization” The High-Level Forum “Decent Work: A Key to Social Justice for a Fair Globalization” held in Oslo on 5 September 2008 was the first public international discussion of the ILO Declaration on “Social Justice for a Fair Globalization” (June 2008), and gave rise to new ideas for policy coherence and global governance. The meeting was organized by the Government of Norway and the Financial Times.
31 October - 2 November 2007, Lisbon, Portugal ILO Forum on Decent Work for a Fair Globalization The ILO Forum on Decent Work for a Fair Globalization focused on the analysis and promotion of the Decent Work concept and the Decent Work Agenda as the key for economic, social and environmental sustainability and as a contribution to the shaping of a fair and inclusive globalization. ...
April 2007
3-4 April 2007, New Delhi High-Level Tripartite Meeting
on the Nexus of Growth, Investment and Decent Work for South Asian Subregion The meeting tapped the knowledge of the ILO constituents, other multilateral institutions including the IFIs, the donor community and researchers by focusing on the policy mix, policy coherence and policy sequencing at national and subregional levels to strengthen growth, investment and employment linkages and to formulate a strategy for achieving employment-rich growth for countries in the South ...
April 2006
20 April 2006, Washington Fifth Policy Coherence Initiative Meeting Fifth-Multi Agency meeting held on April 20, 2006 at the World Bank, Washington to discuss labour market diagnostics in low income countries (LICs)
21 October 2005, GENEVA, Switzerland Presentation of databases on trade by International Trade Centre of UNCTAD and WTO - [pdf 51 KB] A presentation of databases on trade, country competitiveness and market access developed by the International Trade Centre of UNCTAD and WTO took place at ILO Headquarters on 21 October 2005. The ITC representative shared lessons learned in setting up these data portals and associated products; these provide much food for thought for the ILO.
September 2005
27-29 September 2005, Turin, Italy Decent Work and a Fair Globalization: National Policy Responses This staff seminar brought together 50 participants from HQ and the field in order to share information, knowledge and country experiences, as well as to brainstorm around how to operationalise the decent work strategy for a fair globalization.
2-3 November 2004, Geneva Informal technical Consultations on Policy Coherence Consultations held in Geneva from 2-3 November 2004 to discuss recommendations of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization in order to launch a series of policy coherence initiatives on the subject of growth, investment and employment.
October 2004
25-27 October 2004, Turin, Italy Global Goals and National Challanges: MDGs, PRSPs and Decent Work - Where are we? What next? The seminar's objective was to share new information, knowledge and to exchange experience on Global Goals and National Challenges: MDGs, PRSPs and Decent Work, as well as to brainstorm on the next steps. The website contains relevant resource materials.
September 2004
1-3 September 2004, Turin - ILO center, Italy Workshop on Developing a model-of-change for the informal economy This workshop brought together Headquarters and field staff with many years of experience on issues of decent work and the informal economy. The purpose was to provide an opportunity for ILO staff to analyse the challenges associated with the informal economy and how the ILO could address them through developing models-of-change using the theory-of-change methodology. ...
August 2004
30-31 August 2004, Turin - ILO center, Italy Workshop on Good Practice: Decent Work and the informal economy This seminar brought together ILO staff from both Headquarters and the field who are working with informal economy issues. The purpose of the seminar was to establish criteria for good practice in relation to decent work and the informal economy and to exchange views and gain capacity on how to show impact of the ILO projects in this area.
July 2004
20-21 July 2004, , Indonesia ILO-ASEAN Joint Study - Regional Coordination Meeting This meeting assembled the country project researchers along with ASEAN and ILO officials to share initial results and to discuss methodological and conceptual issues.