Events and training on labour migration
October 2020
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Joint Sida-ILO-UNHCR Workshop
Putting Nexus into Practice: Using and Developing Markets to Promote Livelihoods and Decent Work in Fragile Contexts
21 October 2020
How ILO and UNHCR Went from Talk to Walk Using a Joint Approach for Inclusive Market Systems
September 2019
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Fair recruitment
Data collection and analysis of labour related SDG targets: Social protection and recruitment cost indicators
23 - 26 September 2019
The ILO Global Action to Improve the Recruitment Framework of Labour Migration (REFRAME) project and ILO Achieving SDGs and ending poverty through Universal Social Protection Project organise a four-day training workshop on measuring and analysing key labour market SDGs with a special focus on social protection and recruitment costs.
May 2019
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Event
Workshop on SDG indicator 10.7.1: Measuring recruitment costs
30 May - 1 June 2019
ILO and World Bank convene a workshop with national statistical offices to promote and discuss guidelines for the collection of statistics on SDG indicator 10.7.1
February 2019
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Side event
Ensuring Fair Recruitment for Realising Human Potential and Sustainable Development
27 February 2019
The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) includes objectives on facilitating fair recruitment and investing in skills development, and facilitating mutual recognition of skills and skills matching. These objectives are closely linked and form an important part of the ILO’s effort to contribute to improving the governance of labour migration.
November 2018
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Event
Tripartite Meeting of Experts on Defining Recruitment Fees and Related Costs
14 - 16 November 2018
The ILO Governing Body at its 331st Session agreed to convene in November 2018 a three-day “Tripartite Meeting of Experts on Defining Recruitment Fees and Related Costs”, with the objective to review, amend and adopt draft definitions on recruitment fees and related costs developed by the Office based on a global comparative study and thorough analysis by the Office of definitions of recruitment fees and costs; and recommend ways to disseminate and use the adopted definition at the international and national levels by constituents.
Please note that this Meeting is by invitation only and not open to the public.
September 2016
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Event
Tripartite Meeting of Experts to Develop Guidance on Fair Recruitment
5 - 7 September 2016
The ILO Governing Body at its 326th Session agreed to convene in September 2016 a three-day “Tripartite Meeting of Experts to Develop Guidance on Fair Recruitment”, with the objective to adopt ILO guidelines on fair recruitment, encompassing both cross-border and national recruitment. The outcomes of such a meeting will inform the general discussion on labour migration that has been included on the agenda of the International Labour Conference in June 2017, as well as the second recurrent discussion on fundamental principles and rights at work.
Please note that this Meeting is by invitation only and not open to the public.
July 2015
May 2015
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Event
GMG International Conference on Harnessing Migration, Remittances and Diaspora Contributions for Financing Sustainable Development
26 - 27 May 2015
April 2015
July 2014
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Event
GFMD 2015: Fair Migration and the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda
9 July 2014
This GFMD side event will allow participants to discuss some of the practical ways in which the post-2015 development framework might incorporate migrants and migration that are needed to advance inclusive, equitable and sustainable development, and how the GFMD and GMG, working with the SRSG and other stakeholders such as social partners, migrant and diaspora associations and civil society generally, might contribute to and bolster this process.