Events and meetings
2012
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Youth Conference of Trade Unions on "Decent Youth Employment and ILO Standards"
9 - 10 November 2012
The two day conference of young trade union leaders discussed on youth issues at workplace, ILO standards promoting decent youth emoloyment and ratification and implementation status of ILO conventions in Nepal. The workshop also prepared and adopted a summary and recommendation for decent youth employment and various strategies and activities in mobilizing/strengthening youth committees for promoting youth initiatives within the trade unions.
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Refresher training for Trade Union Educators on Organizing Informal Economy Workers
5 - 7 November 2012
The three day course offered an opportunity in sharing experiences of organizing informal economy workers for thirty (30)Trade Union Educators from major trade unions in Nepal. The course was based on ACTRAV Manual for organizing informal economy workers. A Nepali translated copy was provided to the participants. The participants presented their action plans for next year's organizing activities in Nepal.
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High level Nepal delegation visited Cambodia and Australia
4 - 11 November 2012
A high level tripartite delegation from Nepal headed by the Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment visited Arbitration Council of Cambodia and Fair Work Australia from 4 to 11 November 2012. The ILO's Labour Administration and Labour Relations Specialist, based in Bangkok accompanied the delegation. The key objective of the delegation was to learn and to share experiences on dispute settlement mechanisms and institutions in Nepal, Cambodia and Australia.
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Green Jobs in Asia Regional Conference
29 - 31 August 2012
On 29-31 August 2012, a tripartite regional workshop will discuss the Green Jobs in Asia project to highlight successful approaches, areas of improvement and the way forward. Representatives from GJA will include Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippines and Sri Lanka. They will be joined by additional countries with Green Jobs experience: China, Fiji, India and Thailand.
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Training on Achieving Education for All and Eliminating Child Labour in Nepal
26 - 30 August 2012
A four half-day residential training on "Achieving Education for All and Eliminating Child Labour in Nepal" will be organized by the Danish Government funded ILO Project on Support to the Implementation of Nepals National Master Plan on the Elimination of Child Labour with technical and financial support from the International Training Centre of the ILO in Turin, Italy. The training is aimed at enhancing the mainstreaming of child labour issues into national education oriented programs and budgets. Around 35 representatives from the Government ministries, departments and related sections and commissions inlcuding social partners, key donors, international agencies and civil society will form part of this training course.
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Unofficial translation of the 15-point Declaration of the National Labour and Employment Conference, 9-11 July 2012
11 July 2012
The Conference concluded in Kathmandu with a 15-point declaration endorsed by the government, employers and trade unions.
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National Labour and Employment Conference 2069 (2012)
9 - 11 July 2012
A 3-day Conference is organized by the Department of Labour (DoL) under the Ministry of Labour and Employment (MoLE), Government of Nepal with technical and financial support from the ILO Nepal. The Conference will provide an opportunity to discuss and deliberate on crucial issues related to building and promoting conducive labour relations for decent work and job rich economic growth. It is expected that around 250 participants from government including representatives from Ministry of Labour and Employment, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Industry, workers, employers, labour inspectors, Investment Board and civil society will participate.
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Towards Gender Equality and Decent Work: Gender Mainstreaming - The Way Forward
27 - 29 June 2012
The residential Workshop is organized by the ILO in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour and Employment (MoLE), Nepal from 27 to 29 June in Kathmandu, Nepal. The workshop brings together thirty (30) officials representing the Government, Employers and Workers Organizations, and including members of the Central Labour Advisory Committee (CLAC) and Labour Inspectors. The programme is based on the ILO programming tools on Gender Mainstreaming Strategies in Decent Work Promotion. It is delivered by Ms Saadya Hamdani, Senior Gender Specialist from ILO DWT for South Asia and based in New Delhi, with the support of the ILO Country Office for Nepal.
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World Day Against Child Labour, 12 June 2012 "Human Rights and Social Justice: Let's End Child Labour
12 June 2012
The global theme of the World Day against Child Labour 2012 very much complements the national drives towards child labour elimination. On 12 June 2012, ILO, UNICEF, World Education and the National Human Rights Commission (the four co-developers of WDACL 2012) in cooperation with the Ministry of Labour and Transport Management are organizing a “Breakfast Seminar” for the media journalists and other key stakeholders on 12 June 2012. The purpose of this Breakfast Seminar is to inform about and discuss the current child labour situation in Nepal, the international standards and national child labour elimination commitments made and the challenges at stake in light of the WDACL 2012 theme on Human Rights and Social Justice. The seminar is believed to give impetus to the endorsement of the National Master Plan (2011-20) on Child Labour by the Government of Nepal and initiate interventions resulting in a sustained action for its elimination. Besides, production and dissemination of the Promotion materials (i.e. brochures, posters and briefs) adapted in the national context, awareness program through national and local medias and facilitation of a broad-based signature campaign covering more than five thousand stakeholders will be undertaken with financial assistance from the ILO IPEC and in close cooperation with the co-developers of WDACL 2012, prior to and on 12 June. Similarly, a one minute stand will be followed all over the country (in schools, colleges, Ministries, UN agencies, trade unions, employers’ organizations) on 12 June to pledge for the child labour elimination.
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Youth Employment in Asia and the Pacific
1 May 2012
As a lead-up to the Youth Employment Forum to be held in Geneva, 23-25 May 2012, many activities were held globally to highlight youth employment issues. Thirteen countries in Asia and the Pacific are organizing various activities to raise awareness on the importance of youth employment.
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Dissemination workshop for the key findings from studies related to HIV and TB in Nepal
27 April 2012
The key findings of two innovative studies funded from the UNAIDS Programme Allocations Fund (PAF) Project; 1. HIV and TB transmission risk assessment in street vendors 2. Behaviour of returnee sex workers from India were disseminated at the workshop. There were four press releases and fact sheets presented during the workshop.
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Migrant workers: responsible recruitment & fair hiring to combat human trafficking in South Asia
13 March 2012
The Institute for Human Rights and Business and Verité organize a multi-stakeholder roundtable to explore the challenges, risks and human rights responsibilities around recruiting Indian, Bangladeshi and Nepali migrant workers for overseas employment, and ensuring responsible practice to combat human trafficking.
2011
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ILO Capacity Building Programme: Working with UN. Workers and Employers contribution to Achieving Decent Work in a changing regional environment
20 - 21 October 2011
The Regional Unit for Partnerships is supporting Geneva colleagues (EXREL, PARDEV and INTEGRATION) to respond effectively to the requests of the Governing Body (TC committee) to assist workers and employers organisations to increase institutional capacity to mainstream decent work into UN processes, with a special focus on social partners participation into DWCPs and UNDAFs. This workshop is part of a series of bi-partite training for social partners - similar workshops took place in the Africa and the Americas region in 2010, and the Arab region in 2011
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Subregional Seminar on "Strengthening the Labour Movement to Achieve Decent Work"
18 - 19 October 2011
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Employers Organizations: Enhanced effectiveness in membership promotion,retention, lobbying, services and sharing of policies,services on labour-trade issues
4 - 5 October 2011
The workshop is organized by International Training Centre of the ILO in Turin and the Dutch Employers Cooperation Programme (DECP) in collaboration with Bureau for Employers’ Activities (ACT-EMP) in Geneva and the support of the ILO Offices in New delhi and Sri Lanka to strengthen the employers’ organizations to perform more effectively by increasing the skills of key personnel and their capacity to boost the effectiveness of EOs in South Asia by sharing of practices on membership promotion /retention, services, lobbying in general, and with specific reference to lobbying/services on labour related issues in trade.
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Nepal: Campaign for Ratification and Application of ILO Conventions Nos. 87 and 98 in the Asia-Pacific Region
15 - 19 August 2011
The Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ILO-ACTRAV), in cooperation with the International Trade Union Confederation-Asia Pacific (ITUC-AP) and the trade union organizations of Nepal, is running a campaign for the ratification and application of ILO Conventions Nos.87 and 98 in a number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Green Jobs-AP online discussion forum on policies, programs and measures to promote Green Jobs
16 May - 5 June 2011
This forum seeks participants’ experiences, expertise and feedback on the issue. Participation is open to all who have an interest in green jobs related issues.
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APYouthNet online discussion forum on the effects of labour migration policies on young people
16 - 27 May 2011
This forum seeks participants’ experiences, expertise and feedback on the issue. Participation is open to all who have an interest in youth employment related issues.
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National Conference on Climate Change and Green Jobs
28 April 2011
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Workshop on Employment-led Growth in Nepal - an input to the Three-Year Plan (2010/11-2012/13)
7 March 2011