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Enterprise Formalization

Transition from informal to formal economy: Awareness raising on R204 towards designing an integrated policy framework in the Philippines

The efforts to facilitate formalization of the informal economy has been accelerating across the globe bolstered with the historic adoption of Recommendation 204 Concerning the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation (R204) which was adopted by the International Labour Conference at its 104th Session in 2015. With the launch of the SDGs, the interests are growing to support more than 60 per cent of the world’s workforce operating in the informal economy through transition to formality. The notion that economic growth, while a necessary condition, is insufficient to reduce informality, is widespread in the debates of post-global financial crisis, and most recently in the context of the fourth industrial revolution including in the Future of Work dialogue hosted by the ILO.

RBSA Meeting

Meeting on ILO’s core voluntary funding (RBSA), November 2016

The regular informal RBSA donors’ meeting took place on 1st November 2016 at the ILO HQ, organised on the margins of the ILO Governing Body.
Global South-South Development Expo 2016

ILO Sustainable Development and Decent Work Solution Forum, 1 November 2016

The ILO will hold a South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) Solution Forum on The Future of Work at the Global South-South Development Expo 2016. The objectives is to assist participants in accessing tools and method to implement South-South and triangular cooperation projects.
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South-South and Triangular Cooperation

High Level event to achieve the Social Development Goals on universal social protection

Joint ILO – CHINA – ASEAN Conference to share worldwide experience to extend social protection floors to all.
Event

South-South and Triangular Cooperation Academy, 2016

A joint initiative of the ILO and its International Training Centre, supported by UN agencies and partners, the SSTC Academy, an interregional learning and networking event gathered policymakers, promoters, practitioners and researchers from all around the world. It served as a forum for the formulation of high-level strategic initiatives and political advocacy on SSTC in support to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and decent work in particular.

South-South and triangular cooperation

Informal briefing on ILO activities with the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP)

Members of the ILO from the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) met with representatives of the ILO during the International Labour Conference in June 2015.
South-South cooperation

IX Brazil-ILO Annual Review Meeting, 2015

Brazil and ILO announced a new South-South cooperation project to promote decent work in the cotton industry during a meeting between representatives of the Brazilian Government and workers' and employers' organizations and the ILO.

South-South and triangular cooperation

Global South-South Development Expo 2014: ILO solution forum

Within the Global South-South Development (GSSD) Expo, held in Washington DC from 17 to 21 November 2014, the ILO Solution Forum focused on projects concerning sustainable development and decent work in a variety of contexts worldwide based on good practices in SSTC with a view to the post-2015 framework.
South-South and triangular cooperation

Informal meeting of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) and the ILO in the framework of SSTC

Members of the ILO from the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) met with representatives of the ILO during the International Labour Conference in June 2014. Inter alia, they discussed the recent publication, "South-South and Triangular Cooperation in Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP): good practices in social protection and in combating child labour" (see link below to Portuguese version).
South-South cooperation

Brazil-ILO Annual Review Meeting 2014

Representatives from the Brazilian Government and workers' and employers' organizations will present, analyse and debate ongoing cooperation activities within the partnership with the ILO for the promotion of the Decent Work Agenda.

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