As part of the ILO efforts on measuring and monitoring decent work, the project “Monitoring and Assessing Progress on Decent Work” (MAP), funded by the European Commission (EC) is ending in December 2013.

In the four years of the project (2009-2013), countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe participated through engagement of Government agencies, Employers’ and Workers’ organizations and research institutions, with the aim of strengthening national capacities to monitor and assess progress towards decent work and to encourage regional initiatives on the measurement of decent work.

The end of project conference is to review the main results and share best practices on measuring and monitoring decent work, as well as to present the tools and methodologies that have been developed under the project to support the measurement and the monitoring of decent work. It will also include a high level session on decent work in the development agenda, with the participation of experts from the High level panel for the post-2015 development agenda.

Conference programme

Monday 18 November 2013

08:30-09:30 Registration

Separate meetings of workers' and employers' groups
Welcome coffee'

09:30-10:00 Opening remarks by the ILO and the European Commission (EC)

• Monitoring employment and decent work within development strategies: an EC perspective

Mr Nick Taylor, Head of Section, EC, Unit DEVCO B3, Employment, Social Inclusion, Migration

• Measuring and monitoring deent work in the development strategies: an ILO perspective 

Mr Stephen Pursey, Director, Multilateral Cooperation Department, ILO
Mr Rafael Diez de Medina, Director, Statistics Department, ILO


10:00-11:30 Employment, Decent Work and Development (High-Level Session)
Chairperson: Rafael Diez de Medina, Statistics Department, ILO

• Employment and Decent Work in the EC Development Strategy
  

Mr Klaus Rudischhauser, Deputy Director-General Sectoral and Thematic Directorates, EC, DG DEVCO

• The post 2015 debate in the EU Employment policy framework: a European perspective

Mr Rudi Delarue, Deputy Head of Unit, External Relations, Neighbourhood Policy, Enlargement, IPA, EC,  DG Employment

• Employment within the Post-2015 Development Agenda (High-Level Panel)

Ms Schenk-Dornbusch, Policy Head of the Sherpa Advisory Team, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

• Employment and Decent Work goals and targets in the Development Agenda

Mr Stephen Pursey, Director, Multilateral Cooperation Department, ILO
Ms Dorothea Schmidt, Employment Policy Department, ILO

• Decent Work and Development from employers and workers’ perspectives

Ms Ronnie Goldberg, US Council for International Business, International Organization of Employers (IOE)
Mr Luc Cortebeeck, Deputy President, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)


11:30 - 12:30 Plenary discussion

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch


14:00-16:00 The MAP project: Main Results and Global Methodology for Monitoring and Assessing Progress on Decent Work
Mr Nick Taylor, Head of Section, EC, Unit DEVCO B3, Employment, Social Inclusion, Migration
(plenary discussion after each presentation)

• The MAP project: main results and global methodology

Ms Naïma Pagès, Chief Technical Advisor MAP-ILO

• MAP countries' experience: best practices and way forward 

Country presentation of Brazil
Country presentation of Zambia

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-18:00 The MAP project: Main Results and Global Methodology for Monitoring and Assessing Progress on Decent Work (continued)
Chairperson: Mr Stephen Pursey, Director, Multilateral Cooperation Department, ILO
(plenary discussion after each presentation)

• MAP countries' experience: best practices and way forward (continued)

Country presentation of Ukraine
Country presentation of Indonesia

18:30 Cocktail

Tuesday 19 November 2013 - am

08:30 -09:30
Separate Meetings of Workers' and Employers' groups
Welcome coffee

09:30 - 12:00 Next steps  for sustainability: regional support to national actions on the measurement and monitoring of decent work (Roundtable)
Chairperson: Mr. Rafael Diez de Medina, Director, Department of Statistics, ILO
(plenary discussion after each group presentation)

General presentation: Actions for sustainability: lessons learned from MAP project, Naima Pagès, ILO

Latin America: Mr Ribeiro José (ILO, Brasilia), Monica Castillo (ILO, Geneva) and Ms María José Gonzalez Observatorio del Mercado de Trabajo, Uruguay (MERCOSUR)

Africa: Ms Belinda Chanda (ILO, Lusaka), Mr Coffi Agoussou (ILO, Pretoria), and Mr. Yeo Dossina Chief of the Statistical Department, African Union Community

Asia: Tite Habiyakare (ILO Bangkok), David Williams (ILO, Geneva), Ms. Sharita Serrao, Population and Social Statistics Section, Statistics Division UN ESCAP and Edgar Pato, Social Welfare, Women, Labour and Migrant Workers Division of ASEAN Secretariat

Europe: Mr Nikolai Rogovsky (ILO, Geneva), Mr Sergiy Savchuk (ILO, Kiev), Ms Monica Castillo (ILO, Geneva), Mr Thomas Körner, Federal Statistical Office (Experts Group on Measuring Quality of Employment), Mr Johan van der Valk, Eurostat and Greet Vermeylen, Eurofound

Workers’ and Employers’ perspective: Mr Claude Akpokavie, Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV) of the ILO, and Bureau for Employer's Activities (ACTEMP) of the ILO (tbc)


12:00-13:00 Wrap-up and closure of meeting

• Ms Ronnie Goldberg, US Council for International Business, International Organization of Employers (IOE)
• Mr Luc Cortebeeck, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
• Mr. Rafael Diez de Medina, Director, Statistics Department, ILO
• Mr. Stephen Pursey, Director, Multilateral Cooperation Department, ILO
• Ms. Hélène Bourgade, Head of Unit B3, Employment, Social Inclusion, Migration, EC, DG DEVCO

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 17:30 Bilaterale dialogue ILO/EC (ILO Officers and EC representatives from geographical and thematic sectors)