News and events
2019
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Peace and development
A new ILO-Japan project to ensure water, jobs and peace in Mindanao, Philippines
06 March 2019
The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Government of Japan have signed a new partnership to provide jobs and promote peace through improved water supply and sanitation services in post-conflict areas in the Philippines.
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Responsible supply chains in Thailand
EU, ILO and OECD join hands to forge partnerships for sustainable business and responsible supply chains
28 February 2019
Addressing an event to introduce a new project promoting Responsible Supply Chains, the Minister of Labour of Thailand and the Ambassador of the European Union underlined the importance of responsible business practices in supply chains in Thailand and beyond.
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Publication
South-South and Triangular Cooperation: Decent Work Good Practices on the Road to BAPA +40 and beyond
15 February 2019
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Press release
Promoting decent work and road safety for truck drivers of GMS countries
17 January 2019
Governments, employers and workers from the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) agree to enhance decent work by promoting social dialogue, skills development and cross-border coordination in road freight transport.
2018
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Development cooperation
ILO and Sweden join forces to promote decent work in Asian garment supply chains
07 December 2018
The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the ILO signed a Cooperation Agreement to start a new project to improve working conditions and productivity for women and men workers and enhance the sustainability of the garment industry in Asia.
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Global Wage Report 2018/19
Asia-Pacific wage growth stalls but stays ahead of the rest of the world
26 November 2018
The latest ILO Global Wage Report 2018/19 finds that the global wage growth fell to its lowest rate since 2008. Although remaining above the global rate, wage growth in Asia also slowed down in 2017.
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Tackling Child Labour
UK Government to support ILO in fighting child labour in South Asia
27 September 2018
New ILO UK-funded programme will concentrate on the worst forms of child labour in South Asia.
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Enterprise Formalization
South-South Expert Knowledge Sharing Forum on Policy Innovations and Lessons Learned on Enterprise Formalization
The Forum aims to support the Philippines to achieve decent work through enterprise formalization by further empowering policymakers and informal economy leaders to design and implement an appropriate policy mix. The three-day Forum will bring together around 30 high level policy makers and expert from the Philippines with experts from the Global South (Brazil, Chile, India and Uruguay) and ILO Specialists.
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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.
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Press release
ILO and Singapore moving forward to promote decent work in Southeast Asia
05 June 2018