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International European, Latin America and the Caribbean Businesswomen Forum Launch

Opportunities and challenges in the post-pandemia era

International European, Latin America and the Caribbean Businesswomen Forum Launch

The Programme "Win-Win: Gender Equality means good business", implemented by ILO and UN Women, and financed by the EU, in collaboration with the International Organisation of Employers – IOE is launching this Forum. It aims to create a space for...

Launch of Women’s Entrepreneurship Development Assessment Report: Jamaica
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Launch of Women’s Entrepreneurship Development Assessment Report: Jamaica

The Report identifies deficiencies in the conditions affecting the emergence and sustainability of women�owned enterprises and their capacity to access the necessary resources and support for sustainability and growth.

Launch of the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour (2021) in the Americas

#EndChildLabour2021

Launch of the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour (2021) in the Americas

Next Thursday, February 11, from 9:30 am to 11:00 am (GMT-5), governments of Latin America and the Caribbean, employers’ and workers’ organizations and civil society, will unite under one voice to advance towards the achievement of target 8.7 of the...

Creating a post-pandemic Future of Work in the Caribbean: Recommendations for achieving resilient labour markets
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COVID-19 and the world of work

Creating a post-pandemic Future of Work in the Caribbean: Recommendations for achieving resilient labour markets

Registration is required to attend this Zoom webinar

National Educational Seminar on Actions for Achieving SDG Target 8.7 – Eliminating Child Labour and Worst Forms of Child Labour by 2025
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ILO and the Ministry of Labour and Social Partnership Relations, Barbados, virtual training workshop

National Educational Seminar on Actions for Achieving SDG Target 8.7 – Eliminating Child Labour and Worst Forms of Child Labour by 2025

The training will include a mix of live, highly interactive, online sessions hosted via Zoom; and self-paced learning materials and discussion boards.

Strengthening the capacity of workers’ organizations in building back better: Advancing social dialogue for solutions
Workers at factory during COVID-19

COVID-19 and the world of work

Strengthening the capacity of workers’ organizations in building back better: Advancing social dialogue for solutions

This meeting is to establish an in-depth virtual discussion roundtable on the importance of the fourth pillar, the existing conditions of social dialogue there are in the Caribbean during the Covid-19 pandemic, especially during the phase of...

Training workshop on child labour for Labour Inspectors/Officials and Members of the National Steering Committee
Young boys in construction

ILO and the Ministry of Labour, Trinidad and Tobago, virtual training workshop

Training workshop on child labour for Labour Inspectors/Officials and Members of the National Steering Committee

The training will include a mix of live, highly interactive, online sessions hosted via Zoom; and self-paced learning materials and discussion boards.

Lessons and learning: promoting innovation and growth

Women Entrepreneurs Network for Latin America and the Caribbean

Lessons and learning: promoting innovation and growth

The “Win-Win: Gender Equality means Good Business” programme is hosting a series of activities, in cooperation with companies and businesses’ networks of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Jamaica, and Uruguay, which aim at the creation, launch...

Boosting Business in the new Scenario. Opportunities for Woman

Resilience Business in Latin America and the Caribbean

Boosting Business in the new Scenario. Opportunities for Woman

The “Win-Win: Gender Equality means Good Business” programme is hosting a series of activities, in cooperation with companies and businesses’ networks of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Jamaica, and Uruguay, which aim at the creation, launch...

#MyFutureofWork
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International Youth Day 2020

#MyFutureofWork

Young people and their look to a future that is #postCOVID in Latin America and the Caribbean. What comes after the crisis? The International Labour Organization (ILO) is calling for an urgent conversation: we want to hear youth voices through...

Innovation: a horizon of opportunities

2nd Meeting of the Women Entrepreneurs Network for Latin America and the Caribbean

Innovation: a horizon of opportunities

The “Win-Win: Gender Equality means Good Business” programme is hosting a series of activities, in cooperation with companies and businesses’ networks of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Jamaica, and Uruguay, which aim at the creation, launch...

COVID-19 in the Americas: Strengthening social dialogue, collective bargaining and mechanisms in labour relations

COVID-19 and Workers'Organizations

COVID-19 in the Americas: Strengthening social dialogue, collective bargaining and mechanisms in labour relations

The Covid-19 pandemic does not justify any restriction on the fundamental rights at work enshrined in international labour standards, and full respect for these rights is a precondition for effective social dialogue. Strengthening social dialogue...

ILO COOP 100 Webinar III - Cooperatives for Climate Action on the occasion of the 2020 International Day of Cooperatives

ILO COOP 100 Webinar III - Cooperatives for Climate Action on the occasion of the 2020 International Day of Cooperatives

On the eve of the International Day of Cooperatives (IDC), the ILO will hold the third in a series of webinars as part of the Centenary of its Cooperatives Unit, focusing on this year's theme of the IDC - Cooperatives for Climate Action.

Saving jobs, creating new ones and making people more employable. Shaping good labour market policies for post COVID-19 response
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Virtual Roundtable (COVID-19 webinar series)

Saving jobs, creating new ones and making people more employable. Shaping good labour market policies for post COVID-19 response

This virtual roundtable will present some of the underlying principles and current practices on how governments and social partners can engage and undertake measures aimed at preserving jobs and creating new ones. It will also focus on how they can...

Social protection responses in the Caribbean to the COVID-19 pandemic

Virtual Roundtable (COVID-19 webinar series)

Social protection responses in the Caribbean to the COVID-19 pandemic

Women's Leadership in the Region: exchanging ideas and inspiring initiatives

Launch of the Women Entrepreneurs Network for Latin America and the Caribbean

Women's Leadership in the Region: exchanging ideas and inspiring initiatives

The “Win-Win: Gender Equality means Good Business” programme is hosting a series of activities, in cooperation with companies and businesses’ networks of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Jamaica, and Uruguay, which aim at the creation, launch...

Termination of employment and the aftermath in times of COVID 19 and related legal issues

Virtual Roundtable (COVID-19 webinar series)

Termination of employment and the aftermath in times of COVID 19 and related legal issues

ILO and SALISES-UWI virtual research presentation and panel discussion on labour markets and resilience in the Caribbean

ILO Caribbean Resilience Project

ILO and SALISES-UWI virtual research presentation and panel discussion on labour markets and resilience in the Caribbean

The research is part of on-going collaboration with SALISES-UWI, and IDB, and is financed within the framework of the ILO’s Caribbean Resilience Project.

Mitigating the effects of COVID 19 on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and how can we build back better?

Virtual Roundtable (COVID-19 webinar series)

Mitigating the effects of COVID 19 on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and how can we build back better?

ILO-CoESL two-hour clinic to discuss challenges and solutions for Caribbean micro, small and medium enterprises in times of COVID-19

COVID-19 and the world of work

ILO-CoESL two-hour clinic to discuss challenges and solutions for Caribbean micro, small and medium enterprises in times of COVID-19

A virtual webinar hosted by ILO Office for the Caribbean and the Caribbean Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Livelihoods (CoESL)