Past events

Joint ILO/IFAD/FAO side event at 56th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women

During this side event, three powerful speakers ─ Ms Ronnie Goldberg (Vice-President of the US Council for International Business), Ms Rehana Riyalawala (Secretary of the Indian Self-Employed Women's Association/SEWA) and Ms Shireen Lateef (Senior...

ILO hosts Atayeb Palestine charity lunch at Tawlet, as part of the Palestinian Women's Economic Empowerment Project

ILO and Souk Al Tayeb will be organizing a charity lunch featuring traditional Palestinian dishes prepared by women from the Ain al-Helwe and Nahr al-Bared camps. The event aims to revive Palestinian food traditions and raise funds to support...

Roll-Out training for experienced ecotour guides

One of the activities that would be undertaken by the Green Jobs in Asia project for the local stakeholders at the Lake Toba area is eco tour guide training in forms of Training of Trainers (ToTs) for the skilled tour guides and followed by a...

Awareness raising seminar on occupational safety and health for members of Parliament

The objective of the seminar was to motivate members of parliament to promote occupational safety and health as a priority issue with regards to resource allocation and inclusion in national development plans.

Global Dialogue Forum on Conditions of Personnel in Early Childhood Education

Webinar on Women’s Entrepreneurship Development: ILO experiences in assisting women entrepreneurs in starting-up a productive business with...

Tuesday 21 February 2012 - Webinar convened by the ILO and the UN Global Compact Office

Indigenous people para-legal volunteer

Strategic Planning of the Indigenous People Para-legal Volunteer Groups’ under the Indigenous Peoples Development Programme- Caraga Region

The demand for the services of Indigenous Peoples Para-Legal Volunteer Groups in the far-flung villages of Indigenous Peoples in the ancestral domains/project sites is gradually increasing. Representatives of the 8 Para-Legal Volunteer Groups under...

Roll-Out Training for Beginner Ecotour Guides

The main purpose of the roll-out training for ecotour guides therefore is to give experienced tour-guides and potential eco-tour guides the necessary skills to conduct their specific activity following the ecotour guide national competency standards...

Training of Trainers (ToT) for Ecotour Guides

The training is designed in a way to encourage the participants to be active and propose ideas on how to think, act, train, and advocate to other people on the principles of community-environment-tourism to support the achievement of sustainable...

Occupational Safety and Health Training for Trade Unions and Social Partners Working in the Socialized Housing Sector of the Philippines

A five-day occupational safety and health (OSH) training will be delivered to broaden the knowledge of trade union representatives and social partners working in the Socialized Housing sector. Participants will learn about tools and methods to...

The Launch of a New Publication: “Trade and Employment: From Myths to Facts”

In the era of globalization most economists and policy-makers have asserted, that trade liberalization has a strong potential to contribute to growth and that those effects will be beneficial for employment. However, survey evidence illustrates that...

Loan administration and management training

Loan Administration and Management Training for Indigenous Women Self-help Groups and their Counterpart Indigenous Peoples Organizations...

Following the necessary institutional assessment and business planning activities, selected members of concerned Indigenous women self-help groups and their counterpart Indigenous Peoples Organizations will come together for a training on loan...

Domain sustainable development and protection plans

Review of the Strategic Convergence Support for the Formulation of the Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development and Protection Plans...

The convergence partners, including the International Labour Organization (ILO), German International Development Agency (GIZ) and the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP), are set to review their strategy and plans for the provision...

Operational guidelines of the Kayumbyahan Sago Manobo Corporation

Finalization of the Operational Guidelines of the Kayumbyahan Sago Manobo Corporation (KASAMACOR) in Veruela, Agusan del Sur

The KASAMACOR Board of Directors meet to finalize the operational guidelines of the corporation based on pertinent initial operational experience and lessons generated. This forms part of the capacity-building process for the Board of Directors and...

ILO-IPEC Consultant on Resource-mapping Visits Quezon Province

The Strategic Development Cooperation - Asia (SDC) will continue to work on validating the subsectors initially selected as basis for livelihood activities and subject these to further value chain analysis.

Destination Management Organization Stakeholders Meeting for Bromo in East Java

The meeting is aimed to share information on the progress of ILO’s Green Jobs in Asia project activities in Indonesia and assess challenges associated with promoting tourism in Bromo. The meeting is also aimed to highlight areas where ILO green jobs...

Project Advisory Committee of Green Jobs in Asia

The meeting is aimed to promote the capacity of ILO constituents to engage in dialogue on green jobs through increased access to reliable sources of data and information on green jobs and training, including on the employment impacts of...

Workshop on Enabling Environment for Sustainable Enterprises in Barbados

A workshop is to be organized to present and validate a draft report on an enabling environment for sustainable enterprises in Barbados. The draft paper includes secondary data, the results of a national survey conducted in November 2011 by the...

Child labour

Proposal Development Workshop for Bukidnon Press Club

The Bukidnon Press Club (BPC) has expressed interest to be a partner in pursuing a grassroots communications campaign. To help them in developing the concept, a Project Development Seminar was conducted where they were oriented about the work of...

Training Workshop with NIOSH B Reader Certification (using the ILO 2000 Classification of Radiographs of Pneumoconioses)

This training workshop is organized by the ILO Programme SafeWork and the Thai Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) in cooperation with NIOSH (USA). It offers an extensive training programme with x-ray film reading and includes NIOSH B Reader...