Past events

Global Dialogue Forum on Safety in the Supply Chain in Relation to Packing of Containers

The purpose of the Forum is to reach a common understanding by all stakeholders of the underlining issues pertinent to the packing of containers and a better understanding of the reasons that lead to the application of poor practices in packing of...

Voices on Social Justice

Voices calling for social justice continue to find new resonance at all levels of society. But what does the term actually mean? Throughout 2010, the ILO Voices on Social Justice Project posed precisely that question to a wide range of leaders,...

Task force for migrants

Ilocos Sur to Set Up Task Force for Migrants

Ilocos Sur Vice Governor Deogracias Victor Savellano expressed his support to setup a provincial task force that will deal with issues affecting migrant workers in the province. The task force will essentially provide assistance on return and...

Returned migrant workers

Building Peer Support for Return Migrants

Former women migrants from the provinces of La Union, Nueva Ecija, Ilocos Sur and the National Capital Region attended a seminar-workshop recently in a purposive move to help themselves overcome negative migration experiences and hasten the...

Business Continuity Planning Programme

Business Continuity Planning Program (Business/Operational Continuity Planning) is an ILO program implemented through the activities of advocacy, promotion and education related to business continuity planning efforts at the level of decision-making...

Workshop on Financial Education for Migrant Workers and Their Families

Realizing to the poor understanding of migrant workers towards financial services and accesses, ILO is developing a financial education programme for migrant workers and their families, aimed to provide direct assistance on financial services and...

Training for Specialists in Indonesia: Assessing the Effects of Trade on Employment

The training is aimed to strengthen the participants’ skills to empirically analyse the effects of trade on employment using Social Accounting Matrix and multiplier analysis. In so doing, the training lays down the base for researchers and analysts...

West meets East: The International Labour Organization from Geneva to the Pacific Rim

Interdisciplinary conference on the ILO’s role throughout the Pacific Rim during the post-World War II period. Organizers: University of California, Santa Barbara, with the support of the ILO Century Project.

Improving Vocational and Life Skills of Ex-Child Labourers and at Risk Children Aged 15 to 17 Years

In an attempt to improve the vocational and life skills of the children, and in collaboration with the International Garment Training Centre (IGTC), ILO-IPEC provides vocational and life skill training for 30 ex child laborers and at risk children....

ILO-De La Salle University (DLSU) knowledge corner partnership

On 31 January 2011, Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, CO-Manila Director, Br. Ricardo Laguda FSC, DLSU Chancellor, and Ms Ana Maria Fresnido, University Library Director formally signed the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on the ILO-DSLU knowledge corner...

Workshop on Developing Tourism Programme Priorities

The workshop is aimed to map out participatory potential areas for tourism in Leitimur Selatan Sub-district and to develop programmme priorities in tourism sector to be potentially implemented by community in the area.

Stakeholder Workshop and Focus Group Discussion on Status of Seaweed

The ILO/UNIDO Pelagandong Project and the ILO-EAST Project are jointly organizing a workshop on seewed development as one of the main commodities to discuss with the stakeholders of seaweed in Maluku about the current status and way forward to...

Launch of the annual Global Employment Trends report (GET 2011)

The Global Employment Trends 2011, along with other public information materials, will be available on 25 January 2011.

Second National Stakeholders Workshop on Convention 188 “Working in Fishing Sector”

The workshop aims to raise awareness of the state governments of coastal states of India and social partners on the Convention 188 to promote the ratification of the convention.

Good practices to protect migrants

Forum Highlights Good Practices to Protect Migrants

Community-level mechanisms to protect and promote the rights of migrant workers in the Philippines and Thailand were showcased in a roundtable discussion (RTD) at the ILO Auditorium on 11 January 2012. Chaired by POEA Administrator Hans Cacdac, the...

Impact Assessment Workshop on Workplace Cooperation (Module 1 of SCORE Programme)

The workshop is conducted to mark the culmination of a series of enterprise trainings on Workplace Cooperation conducted in five pilot small medium enterprises (SMEs). The workshop is aimed to asses the progress of the implementation of the...

Workshop on Competency Based Training and Face-to-Face training of Instructors from BLKI Sorong

Taking consideration to the globalization, the work and the skills on demand are changing rapidly due to new technology and innovations. This has the effect to reduce the number of low or unskilled workplaces globally and in another way to extend...

ILO - AIR Pneumo project: Workshop on using the ILO Classification of Radiographs of Pneumoconioses

The training workshop aims to upgrade the skills of occupational physicians, chest doctors, radiologists, and pulmonologists for the effective use of the ILO 2000 International Classification of Radiographs of Pneumoconioses.

The National Conference on Green Jobs: The Way Forward

The government of Indonesia like many other countries in Asia and the Pacific have voluntarily committed to reducing green house gas (GHG) emissions by 2020. Indonesia has committed itself to reduce GHG emission by 26 per cent and by up to 41 per...

SCORE Module Two on Quality Management Workshop

The main aim of the workshop is that the ILO and the SCORE constituents (the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration, employers' organization (Apindo) and workers' organizations ) are agreed that the SCORE Module Quality is adapted and ready to be...