ILO Decent Work Team for South Asia and ILO Country Office for India (DWT/CO-New Delhi)

What's new

1. India Labour Market Update : December 2013

   Economic growth in India is largely driven by services (from a supply-side perspective) and private consumption (taking a demand-side view). However, the slowdown during 2012 and 2013 was associated with a dramatic decrease in the growth of industry and investment. These two dimensions are critical if India is to return to higher and sustained rates of growth.

2. Newsletter

   Quarterly E-Newsletter

   The quarterly e-newsletter of the ILO in India contains the latest news and featuresof activties from DWT/CO-New Delhi.

3. Regional Meeting to Review Labour Migration Structures and Financing in Asia (RAS151)

   17 - 18 December 2013, New Delhi, India

   This workshop will be organized to present and validate the findings of the study and to increase the knowledge base on the financing of protection of migrant workers and organizational structures to manage labour emigration.

4. 

   Annual Review and Meeting of South Asia Coordinating Group on Action against Violence against Children (SACG)

   11- 12 December 2013, New Delhi, India

   This inter-agency meeting will assess progress, challenges and opportunities, monitor the implementation of the SACG workplan (including the SAIEVAC-SACG action), and provide guidance and direction for 2014.

5. Focus Group Discussion on Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)

   12  December 2013, New Delhi, India

   Discussion with relevant partners on recently-initiated ILO action research on developing RPL assessment methodology.

6. Training Programme for Young South Asian Scholars on Contemporary Issues in Labour Economics

   2 - 14 December 2013, New Delhi, India

   Technical contribution as part of ILO’s engagement in the South Asia Research Network for Inclusive Growth (SARNET)

7. Reserach Brief

   India Employment Trends NSS 68th Round – Research Brief
   ILO Asia-Pacific Research Brief Series No. 2 | November 2013
   

   By Sher Verick, Senior Employment Specialist, ILO Decent Work Technical Support Team for South Asia and Country Office for India
   

8. Publication

   A Social Protection Floor for India

   This study is an invaluable reference for professionals and practitioners working in the field of social security, in particular policymakers and regulators in India. It is also intended for persons who assist practitioners such as technical assistance providers and donors.

9. Interview

   “We are not putting the business-as-usual lens on technical advice for India

   says Tine Staermose, ILO Decent Work Technical Support Team for South Asia and Country Director for India in an interview with UNIC.

10. 

    Report - Global estimates and trends 2000-2012

    Marking progress against child labour

    23 September 2013

    This is the fourth issue of the ILO’s report series: Global Estimates on Child Labour. The present Report provides new global and regional estimates on child labour for the year 2012 and compares them with the previous estimates for 2000, 2004 and 2008.

11. 

    Statement

    South Asia Regional Child Rights Group Calls for an Urgent End to Child Domestic Labour and All Violence against Children

    11 June 2013

12. 

    ILO Director-General visits India

    The Director-General of the International Labour Organization, Mr Guy Ryder, will visit India from 18 to 19 May 2013. This will be Mr Ryder’s first visit to India since he was elected on 1 October 2012.
    

    1. Address to the 45th session of the Indian Labour Conference

13. 

    Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013

    The new study examines the continuing job crisis affecting young people in many parts of the world. It provides updated statistics on global and regional youth unemployment rates and presents ILO policy recommendations to curb the current trends.

14. 

    ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific will visit India

    13 - 15 February 2015

    ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific Yoshiteru Uramoto visits India.
    

    1. ILO Regional Director interacts with RSBY Beneficiaries and Children from the NCLP School
       - Field Trip - 15 February 2013
    2. Address by ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific - 14 February 2013
    3. ILO Regional Director meets Minister of Labour & Employment, Government of India - 14 February 2013
    4. Address by ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific - 13 February 2013

15. 

    'Momentous' new agreement to promote child rights and child protection in South Asia
    

    An agreement was signed by Dr Rinchen Chophel, Director General of the SAIEVAC Regional Secretariat and Ms Tine Staermose, Director of ILO Decent Work Support Team (DWT) for South Asia, New Delhi in Kathmandu on Tuesday 28 August 2012. The new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) aims to reinforce the two organizations’ work on child rights and child protection by improving cooperation between them. It will focus on exchanging information and good practices, providing technical advice, organizing consultations, meetings and workshops. The MOU will also support the implementation of SAIEVAC’s five-year workplan and will use the mechanisms and processes of the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).