Network of CIS Centres

The work of the CIS is shared with an international network of about 150 institutions in ILO Member States - National, Regional and Collaborating Centres. In most cases, these Centres are government agencies with direct responsibilities for labour affairs, but employers' organizations, workers' organizations and independent institutes are represented as well. They contribute to the processing and dissemination of information by collecting the relevant literature published in their countries and sending it to the CIS; they may also prepare abstracts of the documents, promote the publications of the CIS and other ILO units, produce translations of these publications, collaborate in the compilation of multilingual dictionaries in the area of occupational safety and health, participate in the annual meetings of the CIS Centres and engage in joint efforts to use the latest information technology to disseminate occupational safety and health information.