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The development of capacity building activities for the tripartite constituents and ILO staff will be a second major area of work. The aim is to show how lessons from history can shed light on current concerns and strengthen the capacity to intervene in today’s policy debate and decision making process. This will in particular imply a better understanding of the modalities of action as well as the impact of the Office and of the constituents in several historical circumstances and areas of work.
An obvious case for the development of such activities will be past economic and financial crises and the corresponding responses. A series of round table seminars on this theme which will be animated by historians and ILO officials. It has started in November 2009 with a public lecture on financial crises 1929-2008.
It is further planned to provide information and training materials on ILO’s history to new ILO officials, UN staff, and ILO constituents participating in the annual International Labour Conference and Governing Body meetings or at the International Training Centre of the ILO in Turin (Italy).
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