Events and Meetings

A workshop was held to support the Chirundu Hot Springs Savings and Credit Cooperative (SACCO) to carry out a HIV Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) programme and to recruit more members. It was under the Economic Empowerment and HIV Vulnerability Reduction along Transport Corridors in Southern Africa Programme. The workshop coincided with the visit of Ms Alice Ouedraogo, the ILO/AIDS Director

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CO-Harare holds the Youth Employment Forum

• Communique of the Young People of Zimbabwe on Youth Employment

• Zimbabwe National Youth Employment Conference Programme

• Remarks by the Executive Director of the Zimbabwe Youth Council, Mr. L. Dzikira

• Remarks by the Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of Non Governmental Organizations, Mr. C. Zinumwe

• Remarks by the President of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Mr. G. Nkiwane

• Speech by an unemployed youth, Ms. Sharon Jackson

• Zimbabwe National Youth Conference Summary Note

YES JUMP Knowledge sharing and Green Jobs workshop
A YES JUMP knowledge sharing and green jobs workshop was held in Mombasa, Kenya. The workshop was attended by twelve members from the National and Technical Steering committee from Zimbabwe and Kenya. The workshop objectives were: (i) knowledge sharing on best practices on the implementation of the Youth Green Jobs Fund (ii) how to integrate Green Jobs in Youth Employment Policies and Climate Change as well as share results of the Green Jobs fund evaluation (iii) discuss the YES JUMP fund sustainability measures after the end of the first phase; and to (iv) prepare for the YES JUMP second phase.

Commission of Inquiry Report on Zimbabwe (CoI)

In support to the implementation of the International Labour Organisation’s Commission of Inquiry’s seven (7) recommendations on Zimbabwe’s case, the ILO Office in Harare conducted the following activities.

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20-22 July 2011: Training for State Actors on International Labour Standards. Objectives of the workshop:

 The workshop is a first in a series of activities that will be aimed at training key state actors for the full respect of human and trade union rights and to enable the elaboration and promulgation of clear lines of conduct in this regard.

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The Labour Law Reform: Capacity Building Workshop was held at the Montclair Hotel from the 11th to the 13th of May, 2010. The workshop stemmed from the Road Map of the tripartite Labour Law Reform Advisory Council which identified capacity building of stakeholders involved in the labour law reform process as a key element. The workshop was aimed at bringing stakeholders and labour law experts together to discuss and fuse areas of common interest and identify areas of difference in the labour law harmonization and reform process. The recommendations from the workshop together with the position papers from the tripartite partners will form the basis of further negotiations by the tripartite Labour Law Reform Advisory Council which has the mandate to guide the law reform process.

The workshop covered

1. 1.The essence of the Decent Work Agenda and the Toolkit for mainstreaming employment and decent work
2. 2.The Global Jobs Pact and
3. 3.Confronting the employment challenges in Zimbabwe.

Mr Charles Dan, Regional Director for Africa and Mr. Michel Gozo, Special Advisor to the Regional Director recently passed through the Harare Office on the 10th of February 2010 on their way to the ARLAC Governing Council meeting in Kariba, Zimbabwe.

Report of the Commission of Inquiry appointed under article 26 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization to examine the observance by the Government of Zimbabwe of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), and the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98)

• ILO's Commission of Enquiry on Zimbabwe - Truth, Reconciliation and Justice in Zimbabwe (pdf, 904KB)