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

Media Training for Disabled People’s Organizations

The role of media is crucial in shaping people’s mindset about disability and to help addressing stereotypes and misconception about disability. Media also serves as the main source of information for services and opportunities and to provide useful...

Training of Trainers on Financial Education

The Mentawai Islands Livelihoods Recovery Programme aims at supporting the recovery of the productive economy in among households of Pagai Utara (North Pagai) and Pagai Selatan (South Pagai) affected by the 2010 earthquake and tsunami through...

Language skills a key factor for migrant workers' empowerment

Returned migrant workers from the Middle-Eastern countries identified language skills as key factor for workers empowerment and in ensuring better working relations with the employer

EU-ILO cooperation

ILO panel "Skills for Bangladesh" at European Development Days

The ILO organizes a panel on a joint ILO - EU skills project in Bangladesh at the European Development Days, the European Commission’s yearly forum on international affairs and development cooperation.

Training: "The labour dimensions of trafficking in children"

The International Training Centre of the ILO (ITCILO) is organizing its annual interregional course “The labour dimension of trafficking in children” that will run from 28 October to 1 November, 2013 in Turin.

Youth in Jordan receive training on rights and responsibilities in the workplace

Young Jordanian men and women to learn about international conventions, national labour laws and other work related issues.

Jordan strengthens skills testing and certification

Technical and vocational training providers explore methods to enhance skills testing for the Jordanian job market.

Online course: Preventing and addressing forced labour and trafficking in persons in East and South-East Asia

The AP-Forced Labour Net hosted an online course on preventing and addressing trafficking in persons in East and South-East Asia. The course was organized by Forced Labour Action in the Asian Region (FLARE project).

Every skills development programme can include persons with disabilities: 7th plenary session on developing a National Strategy for...

The UN unanimously adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) on 13th December 2006, which entered into force on 3rd May 2008. Bangladesh was one of the pioneering countries to ratify this Convention and is pledge bound...

Fiji National Child Labour Forum

The Forum will serve as a platform to finalize the National Action Plan (NAP)to eliminate the worst forms of Child Labour including trafficking

Migrant Workers and Business: Challenges and Opportunities

Monday, 11 February 2013 and Friday, 1 March 2013 - Webinars convened by the ILO and UN Global Compact Office

Open Discussion on Opening Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities in Formal Working Sector

The workshop aims to raise awareness of and promote employment access for persons with disabilities.

Global Dialogue Forum on Future Needs for Skills and Training in the Oil and Gas Industry

The purpose of the Forum was to assess the current skills and workforce structure and future needs for skills and vocational education and training (VET), as well as effective safety training for contractors and subcontractors in order to create...

Fellowship Training Programme on the Management of the Training Institution for Managers and Administrators of Technical/Vocational...

This fellowship is one of the activities that will help with the realization of one of the ILO’s strategic objectives listed under the regional priorities and outcomes of 2010-11, which is the ‘creation of greater opportunities for women and men to...

Tripartite Meeting of Experts for the Review and Adoption of ILO Guidelines on Training in the Port Sector

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...

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...