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Newsletter - June 2013

This "newsletter" is for ILO constituents in the Pacific to keep them updated on ILO issues and activities related to Decent Work Country Programmes in their respective countries.
Emphasis on need for sectoral approach

The need for young men and women to be involved in entrepreneurship development and opportunities in the Pacific.
Kiribati business survey opens communication

The director of the International Labour Organisation’s Pacific office, Mr. David Lamotte says an inaugural survey of businesses in Kiribati has helped inform their lobby group of what services they want from it.
The ILO’s entrepreneurship education programme Know About Business (KAB) helps strengthen formal education and training interventions in Fiji and Kiribati

In May 2013, the author of KAB, Professor Robert Nelson facilitated the first KAB Training of Trainers in Fiji, through the ILO’s Tackling Child Labour through Education (TACKLE) project. The two weeks training targeted 35 participants who are vocational school teachers in Fiji, NGO representatives working in communities and three participants from Kiribati.
Newsletter - March 2013

This "Newsletter" is for ILO constituents in the Pacific to keep them updated on ILO issues and activities related to Decent Work Country Programmes in their respective countries.
Post-2015 Development Agenda

The ILO calls for job creation and social protection to be included in the list of Development Goals which will be drawn up by the United Nations after the target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals passes in 2015.

►Consult the e-discussions on growth and employment and the post-2015 development agenda
►Join the global survey on the world you want!
ILO launches global photo contest "WORK4YOUTH"

The ILO Youth Employment Programme is organizing a photo contest to shed light on youth employment issues, the challenges young people face in the workplace as well as their power to overcome them. Zoom in for the top prize!
Recognizing workers skills in Samoa

The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour and the Apprenticeship Council of Samoa have been running a trade testing scheme, offering workers who achieved their present status in their job by experience only, a platform to obtain formal recognition of their skills.
The Pacific Growth and Employment Project

The Pacific Growth and Employment Project (PGEP) one of the programmes of the Decent Work Agenda, Australia – ILO Partnership Agreement is now underway.
Disabilities and Decent Work in the Pacific: The case for disability inclusive employment

This publication aims to highlight some of the challenges faced by persons with disability in accessing decent jobs and to identify relevant labour standards and other policy interventions that could advance disability in the workplace and assist Pacific Island countries address these challenges.
Pacific ratification helps to bring 'Seafarers Bill of Rights' into effect

The ILO has received the 30th ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC), fulfilling the final condition for the first global standard spanning continents and oceans, to go into effect in a year’s time.
Republic of Palau becomes 185th ILO member State

GENEVA (ILO News) – The Republic of Palau, a Pacific island nation, became the 185th member of the International Labour Organization (ILO) following receipt in Geneva of a letter dated 2 May, stating, on behalf of the Government, that the Republic of Palau formally accepts the obligations of the Constitution of the ILO.