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Information Session - ILO Development Cooperation Strategy

13th African Regional Meeting

Information Session - ILO Development Cooperation Strategy

Special Session on the Promotion and Application of the ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and...

13th African Regional Meeting

Special Session on the Promotion and Application of the ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and...

Information Session "Engagement in fragile States in the Africa region"

13th African Regional Meeting

Information Session "Engagement in fragile States in the Africa region"

Special plenary debate: “Employment and new technologies: Opportunities for Africa’s youth”

13th African Regional Meeting

Special plenary debate: “Employment and new technologies: Opportunities for Africa’s youth”

Information Session "Joint Labour Migration Programme"

13th African Regional Meeting

Information Session "Joint Labour Migration Programme"

Special plenary debate: “Transition from the informal to the formal economy in Africa: The way forward”

13th African Regional Meeting

Special plenary debate: “Transition from the informal to the formal economy in Africa: The way forward”

High-Level Dialogue: “Decent work in Africa in the post-2015 context: Rights and social dialogue for inclusive and sustainable growth”

13th African Regional Meeting

High-Level Dialogue: “Decent work in Africa in the post-2015 context: Rights and social dialogue for inclusive and sustainable growth”

1st Knowledge Sharing Workshop of all Africa Labour-based Training Institutions

1st Knowledge Sharing Workshop of all Africa Labour-based Training Institutions

The Knowledge Sharing Workshop brings together trainers from 18 National Educational and EIIP Training Institutions in Africa. The workshop mainly aims to provide a forum for exchanging of teaching/training experiences among the participating...

16th ILO Regional Seminar for Labour-Based Practitioners

16th ILO Regional Seminar for Labour-Based Practitioners

The theme of this edition is: "Labor based approaches as solutions for sustainable development challenges in the context of decentralization" Institutional and operational issues of employment intensive approaches will be addressed under the angle...

Certificate Course in Trade Unionism for Social Justice in East Africa

Certificate Course in Trade Unionism for Social Justice in East Africa

Egyptian Policy Lab on Youth Employment

Egyptian Policy Lab on Youth Employment

The Policy Lab provided a platform for youth serving organizations, policy makers, academics, researchers, international organizations and the private sector to collaborate on strengthening evidence-based policies in the field of youth employment in...

Decent Jobs for Egypt’s Young People project co-hosts the fourth Egyptian Forum for Youth Employment Promotion

Decent Jobs for Egypt’s Young People project co-hosts the fourth Egyptian Forum for Youth Employment Promotion

The roundtable discussion and workshop on monitoring and evaluation (M&E) brought together representatives of government institutions, the international community, civil society organizations and academic institutions to discuss M&E mechanisms to...

Trade union unity and principles of freedom of association in Eastern Africa

Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining

Trade union unity and principles of freedom of association in Eastern Africa

Freedom of association refers to the right of workers and employers to create and join organizations of their choice freely and without fear of reprisal or interference. This includes the right to establish and affiliate to confederations and...

Planning Meetings on the Community of Practice Network for Domestic and Migrant Domestic Workers

Meeting

Planning Meetings on the Community of Practice Network for Domestic and Migrant Domestic Workers

International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF) conducted a series of visioning and planning workshops under the auspices of the Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers and their Families (GAP-MDW) in order to identify priority products...

The creation of more and better jobs through investment

World Investment Forum 2014

The creation of more and better jobs through investment

The ILO is organizing, in cooperation with UNCTAD, a dialogue on maximizing the positive impact of foreign direct investment (FDI). The discussion will facilitate exchange of experiences on policies, strategies and incentives to encourage...

Mauritius:Trade Union Forum on Employment Policy, Gender Mainstreaming and Freedom of Association

National Trade Union Forum

Mauritius:Trade Union Forum on Employment Policy, Gender Mainstreaming and Freedom of Association

Organized by ILO Bureau for Workers’ Activities and ILO Country Office for Mauritius in collaboration with Confederations of Trade Unions in Mauritius; the overall objective of the trade union forum is to enhance the trade union capacity in...

ILO's participation in the 20th International AIDS Conference

ILO's participation in the 20th International AIDS Conference

The ILO is participating in AIDS2014, which is expected to gather over 10,000 delegates (including policy makers, programme implementers, practitioners, activists, scientists, journalists, people living with HIV) from nearly 200 countries on the...

2014 enterPRIZE Job Creation Challenge Award Ceremony

2014 enterPRIZE Job Creation Challenge Award Ceremony

'The Free State SME Development Initiative held the award ceremony for the 2014 enterPRIZE Job Creation Challenge on the 19 June 2014 at Ilanga Estate in Bloemfontein.

Zimbabwe-South Africa Bi-national Consultation Workshop

Workshop

Zimbabwe-South Africa Bi-national Consultation Workshop

Representatives of Ministries of Labour and National Affairs -in charge of migration issues-, workers and employers organizations from Zimbabwe and South Africa discussed on approach and activities to be developed in the framework of the Global...

Global Development Agenda, Decent Work and Social Justice: Challenges for African Trade Union Movement

Regional Trade Union Conference

Global Development Agenda, Decent Work and Social Justice: Challenges for African Trade Union Movement

Africa is the world's second largest continent in both land area and population—with more than 800 million people living in fifty-four countries.The trade union movement in Africa concurs with the analysis that the development challenges facing the...