Meeting documentation

October 2007 

• Issue paper for Session 2 - Upgrading work and enterprises in the informal economy.
  
• Overview Paper: Decent work for a fair globalization.
  
• Issue paper for Session 1 - Employability: Education, skills development and technology.
  
• Issue paper for Session 3 - Migration for work, within borders and internationally.
  
• Issue paper for Session 4 - Social security policies for social cohesion and economic development.
  
• Issue paper for Session 5 - Policy coherence amoung international organizations.
  
• Issue paper for Session 6 - Decent work opportunities for young women and men: Overcoming discrimination and disadvantage.
  

September 2007 

• Report of High Level Tripartite Meeting on Policy Coherence for strengthening the Nexus of Growth, Investment and Decent Work for South Asian Subregion
  This meeting taps into the knowledge of ILO constituents, other multilateral institutions including the IFIs, the donor community and researchers on the policy linkages between growth, investment and employment to formulate a strategy for achieving employment-rich growth for the countries in the South Asian subregion

April 2007 

• Concept Note on Strengthening Policy Coherence: High-Level Tripartite Meeting on the Nexus of Growth, Investment and Decent Work for the South Asian Subregion - [pdf 131 KB]
  This PCI meeting held in the South Asian sub-region, brought together policy makers (Governments); representatives from employers' and workers' organisations; multilateral institutions including IFIs; donor communities and researchers, for a technical discussion to identify the major constraints to achieving employment-rich growth in order to bring out the main policy issues facing the countries o ...
• Introduction to the report of High-Level Tripartite Meeting on Policy Coherence for strengthening the Nexus of Growth, Investment and Decent Work for South Asian Subregion
  This meeting was a part of the ILO’s Policy Coherence Initiative (PCI) to improve coherence by 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 Asian subregion.
• Participant List
  

February 2007 

• Documentation for Seminar on 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.
• Documentation for seminar on 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.
• Documentation for Seminar on Decent Work, Poverty Reduction and PRSPs - Thematic Review
  The Staff Seminar brought together some 50 participants from the field and headquarters to exchange views and experiences on integrated approaches to decent work, poverty reduction and PRSPs at the country level.
• Documentation for the Workshop on the follow-up to the ILC Conclusions on decent work and the informal economy
  The purpose of the staff workshop was to develop a coherent framework for pursuing work in follow-up to the Conclusions on decent work and the informal economy, adopted by the International Labour Conference in June 2002. This served as the basis for integrated technical cooperation proposals.
• Documentation for the Conference on Decent Work Issues and Policies
  ILO Conference to take stock of the Decent Work concept/approach/strategy
• Documentation from ILO Workshop on decent work and poverty reduction
  Provided an opportunity for ILO staff to reflect on ILO strategy for poverty reduction, using a decent work framework, and relating it to the broader international setting of MDGs and PRSPs.
• Documentation for staff seminar on Promoting policy integration at the national level: Country strategies on decent work
  This staff seminar brought together participants from field and Headquarters to exchange views and experience on integrated appraoches for promoting decent work at the country level.
• Report of the 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.
• Final report of the ILO international seminar on the use of national labour force surveys for collecting additional labour-related statistics - [pdf 86 KB]
  This seminar was organized by the Statistical Development and Analysis Group of the Policy Integration Department in collaboration with the ILO Bureau of Statistics. ...