All events: skilled workers + unskilled workers + training + skills + lifelong learning + education and training

IFAD-ILO Close-up Event

Mainstreaming youth and women’s employment in rural investments in MENA

The challenge of tackling unemployment among rural women and youth in the Middle East and North Africa gave rise to a unique partnership between IFAD and the ILO

ECOSOC Youth Forum 2018

ECOSOC Youth Forum 2018: The role of youth in building sustainable and resilient urban and rural communities

The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum, to be held on 30-31 January 2018, will provide a platform for youth to engage in a dialogue with Member States, the ILO and UN agency partners

Workshop

Knowledge Sharing Workshop on Good and Promising Practices and Lessons Learned to Promote Decent Work for Domestic Workers and to Eliminate...

Asia harbors 41 percent of the world domestic workers, equivalent to 21.5 million people aged 15 or above. The numbers are growing in many countries in the region. Many of these domestic workers are under 18 years old and the majority are girls.

Eleventh batch of National Labour Inspectors’ Training Program

The ILO’s Dutch funded project on Strengthening Labour Inspection Systems in Pakistan (SLISP) will train its 11th cohort of labour inspectors from Punjab to improve theoretical and practical competencies on labour inspection regulatory frameworks,...

Collective bargaining and negotiation skills training workshop for ILO’s Tripartite Constituents in Pakistan

A four-day training workshop, is being organised by the GIZ funded Project on Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains, in collaboration with the International Training Centre of the ILO (ITC/ILO). The participants of the workshop will include;...

Tenth cohort of National Labour Inspectors’ Training Program

ILO’s Dutch funded project on Strengthening Labour Inspection Systems in Pakistan (SLISP) will conduct a training for its 10th cohort of the first batch of Labour Inspectors from Punjab. The objective of the training is to improve both theoretical...

Training of labour inspectors of Sindh on inspection of wages

The ILO’s project on Strengthening Labour Inspection Systems in Pakistan (SLISP) is organizing a one day training workshop on “Inspection of Wages” for a group of 30 labour inspectors from the Department of Labour (DoL) Sindh. The workshop is aimed...

Skills

Advanced Level Training for Master Trainers in Automotive and ICT Sectors

The ILO and KOREATECH are collaborating to provide high quality training with advanced technology courses in the automotive and ICT (Information, Communications and Technology) sectors over a two weeks period in December 2017.

High-level launch event

Launch of the engagement platform of the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth

The event brings together partners of the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth and other key youth employment actors to celebrate the launch of the online engagement platform, to present the Quality Apprenticeships Toolkit and to learn more...

Event

Technical Meeting on Labour Migration Statistics in South Asia

Technical experts in the fields of labour migration and statistics met to obtain a regional picture of migration-related statistics by sharing information and data collection approaches among the countries in South Asia. There was also discussion of...

EMPLOYMENT Research symposium

Jobs and Skills Mismatch – Job-rich growth for Sustainable Development

On 27-28 November 2017, the Employment Policy Department will bring together researchers, policy-makers, practitioners and other stakeholders to review and discuss on-going research on demand for jobs and bottlenecks in developed and developing...

Applying the G20 training strategy introductory workshop (Phase 2)

On 21 November 2017, G20 Project in cooperation with Department of Vocational and Educational Department, MOLISA organize a half day workshop to introduce about the Phase 2 of the Project, to and to discuss about the establishment of the National...

Egypt Entrepreneurship Summit 2017

ILO-IFAD Taqeem Policy Roundtable: What works in promoting entrepreneurship for rural women?

As part of the Egypt Entrepreneurship Summit 2017, ILO-IFAD Taqeem hosted a policy roundtable titled “What works in promoting entrepreneurship for rural women?”. The roundtable presented evidence on rural women’s entrepreneurship promotion...

The ILO and the United Nations Climate Change Conference - COP23

The annual United Nations Climate Change Conference will be presided by Fiji and held in Bonn, Germany from 6-17 November 2017. This twenty-third session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...

Factory Based Workshops (FBW) on Occupational Safety and Health (OSH)

The ILO in collaboration with Employers’ Federation of Pakistan (EFP) and Pakistan Sports Goods Manufacturers & Exporters Association (PSGMEA) will conduct a 5 day training on OSH to sports goods industry in Sialkot under the Project on “More and...

Webinar: Knowledge sharing session on the recently concluded 43rd meeting of the ILO/CINTERFOR Technical Committee

Hassan Ndahi, Senior Specialist, Skills and Employability with the ILO Decent Work Team and Office for the Caribbean and Mr. Steve Arman, CEO of the National Training Agency of Trinidad and Tobago, will present on this topic, followed by a 30 minute...

Provincial Consultative Workshop on Youth Employment Framework

The ILO will support the Government of Punjab and Prime Ministers’ Youth Programme (PMYP) in organizing a consultative workshop on Youth Employment Framework in Lahore. This is part of a series of consultations across the country aimed at devising...

WorldSkills Conference 2017: Skills strategies for a globalized world

Conference themes include: the globalization of skills and careers in an increasingly digitized world; jobs and skills mismatch; labour force mobility and the constraints of existing qualifications; skills development in cities, and; combating...

Regional meeting on skills and the future of work: Strategies for inclusive growth in Asia and the Pacific

The meeting provides a forum where experts and tripartite partners will hold in-depth discussions on key issues related to ‘skills and the future of work’ which will feed into an ILO publication on the topic.

Skills

Regional Workshop on Anticipating Skills Needs in Facilitating the Transition to a Greener Economy

The Workshop is designed to provide opportunities for participants to improve knowledge on the analysis and forecasting of future green skills needs; understand the central importance of identifying current and future skill needs and labour market...