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Workers' Education
Workers' education is a means of providing workers and their representatives with the training they need to play an effective role in the economic and social life of their societies. At the same time it can also make a significant contribution to the dissemination of information on the various aspects of the work of the International Labour Organization which affects the interest of workers.
Under the responsibility of the Bureau of Workers' Activities
(ACTRAV), an important labour education programme is delivered in
all regions, as well as at the International Training Centre of the
ILO. The ACTRAV-Turin Programme responds to the training needs of
workers’ organizations with the delivery of training courses,
training materials, specific projects and advisory services. Some
of the programme’s objectives are:
- strengthening the process of institution and capacity-building of
trade unions;
- increasing the capacity of trade unions to plan and deliver
educational programmes in line with their educational policies;
- strengthening staff development within trade unions;
- developing human resources within workers' organisations,
particularly the staff serving those organisations;
- strengthening tripartism and social dialogue with the development
of bipartite and tripartite courses;
- promoting gender mainstreaming in all the activities of trade
unions;
- promoting the development of union networks with the support of
information technology and the exchange of union practices and
policies; and
- providing training to trade unions on ways and means to be better
involved in the enforcement and development of ILO Standards and
the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work
and its Follow-up.
The ILO Convention about education and training, the Human
Resources Development Convention, 1975 (No. 142) provides that
the ratifying State shall adopt and develop comprehensive and
co-ordinated policies and programmes of vocational guidance and
vocational training closely linked with employment, in particular
through public employment services.
For more information...
• The Workers' Activities Programme at the ILO's International Training Centre
•Master Programme on Labour Policies and Globalization only in English
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