Events and meetings

2012

1. Livelihood cluster responds to onslaught of Typhoon Pablo

   13 December 2012, Manila, Philippines

   The onslaught of Typhoon Pablo (Bopha) in the provinces of Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental affected the livelihoods of thousands of farmers and their families. Agriculture and agricultural industries, service sectors and infrastructure are among the critical areas for livelihood recovery.

2. National partners forum on child labour

   10 - 12 December 2012, Manila, Philippines

   Partners in the fight against the worst forms of child labour will gather in the 2nd International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) National Partners Forum to share best practices and lessons learned including emerging challenges in the provinces of Bukidnon, Masbate, Northern Samar and Quezon Province.

3. National Conference on ILO Convention 151

   28 November 2012, The Rembrandt Hotel

   The International Labour Organization adopted in 1981 the Convention 151 – Labour Relations (Public Service), which concerns protection of the right to organize and procedures for determining conditions of employment in the public service, noting the considerable expansion of public-service activities in many countries and the need for sound labour relations between public authorities and public employees’ organizations.

4. Individuals and organizations pledge for financial support of child labourers

   27 November 2012, Quezon Province, Philippines

   Strong community involvement is among the highlight features of the ILO-IPEC and DOLE child labour programme called “Taking Children Out of Child Labour through a Functional and Institutionalized Child Labour Monitoring and Integrated Services Delivery System in the Communities.”

5. Forum on ILO Convention 151 for Senate Legislative Staff and Officers

   26 November 2012, Padilla Room, Senate Office of the Philippines

   ILO Convention 151 seeks to address current problems faced by civil servants. The Convention seeks to create an international legal framework for ensuring the right to organize of civil servants, facilities for unions, procedures for determining terms and conditions for employment, settlement of disputes and civil and political rights.

6. Workshop on blogging about children

   20 - 21 November 2012, Manila, Philippines

   Child labourers suffer in silence but bloggers and writers have united to give children a voice and to fight the worst forms of child labour through blogs.

7. Round Table on the design of unemployment insurance (UI) systems: Learning from ASEAN experience

   19 - 20 November 2012, St Giles Hotel, Makati City

   The International Labour Organization Country Office for the Philippines (ILO CO-Manila), the ILO/Japan-ASEAN UI Project, and the Government of the Philippines will organize an experts’ meeting to recall international labour standards relating to unemployment benefits, share experiences of ASEAN’s on-going initiatives to protect and support the unemployed, as well as worldwide practices, on unemployment insurance. The dates for the 'Round Table on the design of unemployment insurance systems: Learning from ASEAN experiences' will be from 19 to 20 November 2012.

8. SWOT exercises

   17 October 2012, Quezon City, Philippines

   One of the activities of the US State Department funded ILO Freedom of Association Project, is the undertaking of a series of SWOT exercises to examine the institutional needs of our social partners to engage in good faith collective bargaining and meaningful social dialogue.

9. DWAB online photo competition

   15 October - 15 November 2012, Manila, Philippines

   The overall purpose of the photography competition is to capture images related to migration from the perspective of young health professionals and increase the awareness of Filipinos on decent work, safe and ethical migration particularly of health professionals.

10. Greener Business – Better Workplace Plus+ Knowledge Sharing Workshop

    12 - 14 September 2012, CSB Hotel Malate, Manila

    The main focus of this knowledge sharing is on enterprise and industry greening, and related issues that support a fair transition for workers, employers and government to gain most benefit from it.

11. Green Jobs in Asia Regional Conference

    29 - 31 August 2012, Singgasana Hotel Surabaya, Surabaya, Indonesia

    On 29-31 August 2012, a tripartite regional workshop will discuss the Green Jobs in Asia project to highlight successful approaches, areas of improvement and the way forward. Representatives from GJA will include Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippines and Sri Lanka. They will be joined by additional countries with Green Jobs experience: China, Fiji, India and Thailand.

12. Training on Entrepreneurship Development for TESDA (Mindanao)

    6 - 10 August 2012, Davao City

    The ILO-Manila in collaboration with the MDG F Joint Programme on Youth Employment and Migration has partnered with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) to conduct the Training of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Trainers on Entrepreneurship.

13. United Nations Photo Exhibit on Indigenous Women at the SM North Edsa

    3 - 10 August 2012, SM North Edsa 3F Main Mall

    A photo exhibit on indigenous women will be featured on 3-10 August 2012 at the SM North Edsa in celebration of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.

14. Promoting decent work for migrant health professionals

    6 July 2012, Baylief Intramuros Manila, Philippines

    The EU funded Decent Work Across Borders: A pilot project for migrant health professionals and skilled workers will be launched on 6 July 2012 in Manila. For the occasion, the project's advisory committee composed of representatives of the government, employers, trade union and professional organizations will meet and endorsed the 3-year project to be implemented in the Philippines, India and Viet Nam as major source countries of health professionals bound to Europe. The project aims to better understand temporary migration schemes and develop adequate services for this particular group of migrant workers.

15. One day presentation for entrepreneurship development for the youth

    3 - 24 July 2012, Antique, Maguindanao, Agusan del Sur, and Masbate

    The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Ateneo School of Government (ASoG) is currently conducting the coaching and mentoring phase of the Entrepreneurship Development for the Youth from the period of 3 July to 24 July 2012.

16. World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL) Philippines Celebration 2012

    26 June 2012, Pasig City, Philippines

    The Philippines will celebrate the World Day Against Child Labour on 26 June this year by presenting to the public the preliminary results of the 2011 Survey on Children done by the National Statistics Office (NSO). This comes 10 years after the last survey done in 2001 which revealed that there were 4.2 million working children, 2.4 million of which were into child labour because of their exposure to hazardous conditions. After the NSO presents the 2011 Survey, a national campaign dubbed “Batang Malaya: A Child Labour-Free Philippines” will be launched by the National Child Labor Committee. The President of the Philippines has been invited to the event as well as key partners in the fight to eliminate child labour in the country and around 100 child labourers. More than 300 participants are expected to attend the activity which will be held at Fun Ranch, a play area for children.

17. Experts Meeting on the Philippines Country Review of the Skills Development System and Delivery

    4 June 2012, Manila, Philippines

    With funding from the ILO/Korea Partnership Programme, an experts meeting to initiate the review of the Philippines skills development system and delivery will be conducted.

18. Entrepreneurship skills training

    21 May - 29 June 2012, Masbate, Antique, and Agusan del Sur

    The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Department of Labor and Employment under Bureau of Welfare with Special Concerns (DOLE-BWSC) are currently implementing the 3rd and 4th batches of the entrepreneurship training for disadvantaged youth in Masbate, Antique and Agusan del Sur.

19. Community-Based Pilot Training (C-BED)

    21 - 23 May 2012, Tayabas, Quezon

    Community-Based Enterprise Development (C-BED) is a newly developed ILO intervention tool which builds the capacity of current aspiring entrepreneurs without the use of external trainers or facilitators.

20. Philippine tripartite-plus stakeholders assessment workshop on ethical recruitment in the health sector

    17 May 2012, Ortigas, Pasig City

    Conduct of a workshop to gather relevant stakeholders and their inputs to the Country Report based on the Code of Practice monitoring worksheets.