All events: employment + employment policy + employment security + unemployment

Tripartite Workshop on Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification in Kyrgyzstan

A workshop with representatives from relevant government and education institutions as well as employers' and workers' representatives from the respective sectors was organized in Bishkek to discuss and validate initial findings of conducted...

Roll-Out training for experienced ecotour guides

One of the activities that would be undertaken by the Green Jobs in Asia project for the local stakeholders at the Lake Toba area is eco tour guide training in forms of Training of Trainers (ToTs) for the skilled tour guides and followed by a...

Global Dialogue Forum on Conditions of Personnel in Early Childhood Education

Roll-Out Training for Beginner Ecotour Guides

The main purpose of the roll-out training for ecotour guides therefore is to give experienced tour-guides and potential eco-tour guides the necessary skills to conduct their specific activity following the ecotour guide national competency standards...

Training of Trainers (ToT) for Ecotour Guides

The training is designed in a way to encourage the participants to be active and propose ideas on how to think, act, train, and advocate to other people on the principles of community-environment-tourism to support the achievement of sustainable...

The Launch of a New Publication: “Trade and Employment: From Myths to Facts”

In the era of globalization most economists and policy-makers have asserted, that trade liberalization has a strong potential to contribute to growth and that those effects will be beneficial for employment. However, survey evidence illustrates that...

Destination Management Organization Stakeholders Meeting for Bromo in East Java

The meeting is aimed to share information on the progress of ILO’s Green Jobs in Asia project activities in Indonesia and assess challenges associated with promoting tourism in Bromo. The meeting is also aimed to highlight areas where ILO green jobs...

Project Advisory Committee of Green Jobs in Asia

The meeting is aimed to promote the capacity of ILO constituents to engage in dialogue on green jobs through increased access to reliable sources of data and information on green jobs and training, including on the employment impacts of...

The Global Development Agenda after the Great Recession of 2008-2009: Revisiting the Seoul Development Consensus - Employment Policy...

The Employment Policy Department’s Knowledge-Sharing Conference was held on 21 November 2011 at ILO headquarters in Geneva. Its goal was to provide a forum for distinguished external experts to share their knowledge on the evolution of the global...

Washington launch of the book "Making Globalization Socially Sustainable" at the Peterson Institute for International Economics

In collaboration with the International Labor Office (ILO), the Peterson Institute held a conference on October 4, 2011, to present key findings from the new ILO-WTO co-publication Making Globalization Socially Sustainable. The edited volume...

Pro-employment macroeconomic frameworks, sectoral strategies for employment creation and the informal economy - Employment Policy...

The Employment Policy Department’s 2011 annual retreat took place between the 20th and 23rd of September at the ILO premises in Geneva. Its goal was to share knowledge on progress made in five key work areas of the department: pro-employment...

Launch of the joint ILO-WTO publication: Making Globalization Socially Sustainable

Globalization is widely seen as a powerful engine that has the potential to promote growth and development. For many years, however, concerns have also been raised about the effects of globalization on jobs and wages. This has led to questions about...

Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification in Macedonia: Enhancing local skills policies for the tourism and agro processing sectors...

A workshop with representatives from relevant government and education institutions as well as employers' and workers' representatives from the respective sectors was organized in Skopje in September 2011 to discuss and validate initial findings of...

Innovations in Public Employment Programmes International Course

Organized by ILO-ITC, in collaboration with the Employment- Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP)

Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification in Bangladesh: The Case of Agro Food and Pharmaceuticals Workshops

Workshops with representatives from relevant government and education institutions as well as employers' and workers' representatives from the respective sectors were organized in Dhaka in September and December 2011 to discuss and validate initial...

14th ILO Regional Seminar for Labour-based Practitioners

This seminar is bringing together ministers, practitioners in labour-based works, policy makers, planners, researchers and academics from around the world to discuss employment-intensive policies and practices under the theme “Public Works for...

Green Jobs Foundation Training

Main purpose of the foundation training is to serve as a basic awareness raising and knowledge enhancing activity for the ILO constituents.

Multi-Stakeholders Workshop on People with Disabilities in Indonesia: Access to Employment and Justice

In recent years, the Asia and Pacific region has made significant strides in recognizing disability as a human rights issue, and in addressing the challenges that people with disabilities face in their efforts to contribute economically, socially,...

2nd Conference on Regulating for Decent Work: Regulating for a Fair recovery (RDW), 6-8 July 2011

The Conference will explore the following: - Fairness at the workplace after the crisis - Decent working conditions: regulation's dispensable ideal? - Wages, inequality and economic growth - Enforcing Decent Work Researchers from all regions and...

Tripartite Validation Workshop of the Indonesia Decent Work Country Profile

Monitoring and assessing progress towards decent work at the country-level is an important concern for the ILO and its constituents. Against this background, the ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization (2008) details that member...