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

Technical Seminar on Impact and Lessons Learnt on School to Work Transition (The Closing Seminar of the ILO-EAST Project)

ILO EAST is a four-year project (2007 – 2011) funded by the Government of Netherlands and executed by the International Labour Organization that aims (a) at improving the employability and capacity for entrepreneurship among young women and men...

Post-graduate course on Occupational Safety and Health at the Workplace (6th edition)

This postgraduate course was designed to contribute to the development of competent occupational safety and health (OSH) professionals. The general objective is to facilitate the knowledge and skills required for effectively dealing with safety and...

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...

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...

Lunch time talk on “Domestic violence - workplace response: In the interest of safety, productivity and employment sustainability in...

A GENDER initiative, with the participation of Ms Ludo McFerran, Project Officer at Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse, Sydney, Australia

A Series of Training of Trainers - Budget Smart: Financial Education for Migration-Affected Youth

The series of training of trainers aim to educate prospective migrant workers on how to plan the migration, determine their migration goals, access financial services, as well as invest the earned remittances productively.

Asia Regional Facilitators’ Training Course on Value Chain Development

The one week course will assist participants in understanding the concept of value chain development and to explore international good practices.

The 2011 ILO’s Inter-Regional Gender Learning Forum

The Forum will bring together ILO’s Global Network of Regional and Sub-regional Gender Specialists, Sector Gender Coordinators, GENDER staff and other key staff members from HQ and from the Arab States Region.

Knowledge-Sharing Workshop on Skills for Employment: Good Practices and Effective Institutions to Bridge Education, Training and Decent Work

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is organizing a two-day workshop on skills for employment as part of the G20 Training Strategy to support strong, sustainable and balanced growth.

ToT on SIYB for Officers of Employment Development and Expansion Center, Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration

Recently, the Government of Indonesia has committed to revitalize the entrepreneurship as a strategy in employment creation. It clearly manifested among the priorities in the Medium Term Development Planning (RPJMN 2010-2014) which emphasizes the...

8 March 2011

ILO celebrates International Women's Day

The year 2011 marks the centenary of International Women’s Day, and the theme of the ILO’s celebrations is: "Making the crisis recovery work for women!" as we will endeavour to show the importance of including women in recovery policies after the...

ToT on SIYB for Officers of Productivity Improvement Center, Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration

Recently, the Government of Indonesia has committed to revitalize the entrepreneurship as a strategy in employment creation. It clearly manifested among the priorities in the Medium Term Development Planning (RPJMN 2010-2014) which emphasizes the...

Training for Specialists in Indonesia: Assessing the Effects of Trade on Employment

The training is aimed to strengthen the participants’ skills to empirically analyse the effects of trade on employment using Social Accounting Matrix and multiplier analysis. In so doing, the training lays down the base for researchers and analysts...

Impact Assessment Workshop on Workplace Cooperation (Module 1 of SCORE Programme)

The workshop is conducted to mark the culmination of a series of enterprise trainings on Workplace Cooperation conducted in five pilot small medium enterprises (SMEs). The workshop is aimed to asses the progress of the implementation of the...

Workshop on Competency Based Training and Face-to-Face training of Instructors from BLKI Sorong

Taking consideration to the globalization, the work and the skills on demand are changing rapidly due to new technology and innovations. This has the effect to reduce the number of low or unskilled workplaces globally and in another way to extend...

SCORE Module Two on Quality Management Workshop

The main aim of the workshop is that the ILO and the SCORE constituents (the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration, employers' organization (Apindo) and workers' organizations ) are agreed that the SCORE Module Quality is adapted and ready to be...

4 in 1 Training of Trainers

The 4 in 1 training handbook is designed to enable non formal training providers to effectively implement competency-based trainings based on labour market requirements that, in turn, will lead to certification and employment.

Social Marketing with Yayasan Dharma Bhakti Astra

Being more vulnerable to external shocks, most small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesia have been finding it difficult to sustain operations due to the global financial crisis and as a result the quality of their jobs is being compromised in...

Regional Workshop on the Role of Trade Unions in Promoting Decent Work for Domestic Workers in Arab Countries

The majority of domestic workers in Arab countries are migrant women from Asian and African countries. They largely live within the households that receive their services,under sponsorship arrangements. Excluded from labour and social security laws...

Development of a National Occupational Safety and Health Programme for Malawi

The workshop’s general objective was to impart the workshop participants with the necessary skills to enable them elaborate a draft version of a National OSH Programme for Malawi. The workshop was aimed at decision-makers and government officials as...