Agenda for the ILO/MOLE Technical Workshop on Women's Labour Force Participation in India and South Asia

Agenda | 12 February 2013


ILO-MOLE Technical Workshop

Draft Programme

14-15 February 2013

Vice-Regal Room, Claridges Hotel, New Delhi


 

Have women benefited from an era of globalization and growth?

DAY 1

Thursday, 14 February 2013

8:30 – 9:00

Registration

9:00 – 10.45

Opening

Chair: Honourable Mr. Mallikarjun Kharge, Minister for Labour and Employment, Government of India

Welcome by Ms. Tine Staermose, Director, Country Office for India and Decent Work Team for South Asia

Opening remarks by Dr. Mrutyunjay Sarangi, Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India

Address by Mr. Ravi Wig, Council of Indian Employers

Address by Ms. Amarjeet Kaur, National Secretary, All India Trade Union Congress

Address by Mr. Yoshiteru Uramoto, Regional Director for the ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

Keynote address by Honourable Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Government of India

Chairperson’s remarks by Honourable Mr. Mallikarjun Kharge, Minister for Labour and Employment, Government of India

Vote of thanks by Mr. Sharda Prasad, Director-General of Employment & Training and Additional Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India

10:45 – 11:00

Coffee

11:00 – 12:30

Session 1: A global perspective on women in the world of work

Chair: Dr. Narendra Jadhav, Member, Planning Commission, Government of India

Dr. Sher Verick, Senior Employment Specialist, ILO, Delhi

Dr. Govind Kelkar, Senior Advisor, Landesa

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 15:00

Session 2: Unravelling recent trends in female labour force participation in India: What explains the fall?

Chair: Prof. K.P. Kannan

Prof. Preet Rustagi, Co-Director, Institute for Human Development (IHD)

Mr. Steve Kapsos, Senior Economist, ILO, Geneva

Dr. Santosh Mehrotra, Director-General, Institute for Applied Manpower Research (IAMR)

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee

15:30 – 17:00

Session 3: Challenges to measuring female labour force participation and work

Chair: Prof. Pronab Sen

Prof. Indira Hirway, Centre for Development Alternatives

Prof. Sandip Sarkar, Institute for Human Development

DAY 2

Friday, 15 February 2013

9:00 – 11:00

Session 4: Common and diverging trends in the participation of women in South Asia and beyond

Chair: Ms. Tine Staermose

Dr. Ramani Gunatilaka and Ms. Shyamali Ranaraja, Sri Lanka

Dr. Rushidan Islam Rahman, Research Director, Bangladesh Institute for Development Studies (BIDS) and Dr. Rizwanul Islam, Former Special Adviser, Employment Sector ILO

Ms. Frida Khan, ILO-Islamabad, Pakistan

Dr. Meena Acharya, Institute for Integrated Development Studies (IIDS), Nepal

11:00 – 11:15

Coffee

11:15 – 13:00

Panel: Identifying more effective strategies to promote women’s participation and economic empowerment

Chair: Mr. Prem Narain, Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development

Dr. Tanaya Mishra, Senior Vice-President (HR), JSW Steel

Ms. Geeta Gokhale, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh

Prof. Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)

Ms. Ratna Sudarshan, Institute for Social Studies Trust (ISST)

Ms. Shahnaz Kapadia, Pakistan

Prof. Savitri Goonasekere, Sri Lanka

13:00 – 13:30

Closing

Ms. Tine Staermose, Director ILO Country Office for India and Decent Work Team for South Asia

Ms. Amarjeet Kaur, Deputy Director-General of Employment & Training, Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India

13:30

Lunch