All events: responsible business conduct + multinational enterprises + trade + export processing zones + fair trade + free trade + trade liberalization + value chains + supply chains

Towards more resilient, inclusive and sustainable supply chains

The aim of the event is to explore opportunities and challenges to advance responsible business conduct and decent work in more resilient, inclusive and sustainable supply chains.

Research Seminar

Global value chain and labour rights: problems and new regulatory perspectives

Exploring the intricate dynamics between global value chains and labour rights

Training Course

Trade, Investment and Decent Work for Asia

The aim of this course is to better understand the trade, investment and labour market nexus and its implications for the Asian region in terms of decent work, responsible business practices and sustainable development.

Training

Effective investment facilitation and sustainable development

This five-day course will help investment promotion agencies to strengthen their investment promotion and facilitation capacities, expand their after-care services and, more broadly, enhance the development impacts of FDI flowing into their...

Webinar

Gender-Sensitive Approaches to Value Chain Development: Learnings and Guidance

Value chain development and gender equality: two goals that are deeply intertwined, yet often understood separately by international development organisations.

13th Annual Meeting of the Child Labour Platform

Advancing Decent Work to end Child Labour in SupplyChains

The meeting will bring together businesses across sectors, as well as representatives of governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations and international organizations. The programme will focus on business responses to tacking the systemic root...

Supply chains

Decent Work in Garment Supply Chains Asia – Experience and Knowledge Sharing from the ILO-Sida project (2019 – 22)

As the ILO-Sida Decent Work in Garment Supply Chains Asia project comes to a close, it is organizing a final regional workshop to bring stakeholders together, reflect on results and progress, and discuss ways forward for supporting a better future...

Training

Economic diversification, industrial linkages and FDI local sourcing towards decent work and a human-centred employment recovery in Asia-...

An online course that aims to increase knowledge on policies that promote economic diversification, industrial linkages and FDI local sourcing. The course aims to build stakeholder capacities to advocate for evidence-based policies, develop...

Capacity building

Just Transition in the Textile and Garment Sector in China - International Summit and Capacity Building Workshop on Green Development and...

This workshop will build the capacity of local government and industrial players on Just Transition planning in the textile and garment sector. The workshop will introduce the Just Transition guidelines and its application (through the Just...

Training

Transformational change for gender equality through responsible business conduct

This three-week online course will look at the role of governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations as well as enterprises in advancing gender equality in the world of work, and explore how responsible business conduct can be used to create...

Research Seminar

Economic Complexity and beyond: harnessing the power of data to improve the value chain

This talk will show how to capture data expressing the economic complexity of countries from Albania to Zimbabwe, offering current economic measures and as well as a guide to achieving prosperity.

METI Programme

Regional technical training on trade and employment for specialists from Southern Mediterranean countries

Research Seminar

Presentation of UNCTAD Trade and Development Report 2022

The Trade and Development Report 2022 warns that monetary and fiscal policy moves in advanced economies risk pushing the world towards global recession and prolonged stagnation, inflicting worse damage than the financial crisis in 2008 and the...

Training

International labour standards and corporate social responsibility: the labour dimension of human rights due diligence

Online course aims to strengthen the capacity of participants to understand the principles of international labour standards as they relate to company operations (including due diligence related to labour rights) and how those principles can be most...

Responsible Business and Human Rights

Responsible Business and Human Rights Forum

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is jointly hosting a regional conference on responsible business practices and promoting human and workers rights.

Training

Multinational enterprises, development and decent work: the approach of the MNE Declaration

This online course will look at the potential of enterprises to contribute to the achievement of decent work for all, a universal goal recognized in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It provides a comprehensive introduction the ILO...

Forced labour

Training for Employers on Addressing, Preventing and Eliminating Forced Labour in the Rubber Industry

The training focuses on practical guidance for employers in the rubber industry in Malaysia, particularly those employing migrant workers, on how to identify risks of forced labour in the recruitment, employment and sourcing practices, and how to...

Meeting

Second Advisory Committee meeting on Integrating Trade and Decent Work

The second Advisory Committee meeting focused on the implementation of labour provisions in trade agreements and presented a draft study on “Promoting and enforcing compliance of labour provisions in trade agreements”. The study provided an opening...

Improving Working Conditions in Supply Chains

Food processing enterprises

Knowledge building on productivity management in food processing sector and sustainable integration in global supply chain

A workshop organized by ILO Promoting Sustainable Enterprises in India (PSEI) project in collaboration with the State Government of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, to build knowledge of food processing enterprises in the two states, on responsible...