Kenya Future of Work Event
The future of work’ initiative (FWCI) is one of the seven initiatives earmarked for the centenary celebration of the International Labour Organization’s 100 years of existence.
23 November 2016
Nairobi (ILO News) -The ILO, in collaboration with The Ministry of East African Community (EAC), Labour and Social Protection and the social partners (Central Organization for Trade Unions (COTU) and The Federation of Kenyan Employers (FKE)) are organizing the ‘Future of Work event’ on the 29th of November 2016 at the Villa Rosa Kempinski, in Nairobi. The event is intended to initiate a tripartite plus dialogue on the future of work in the Kenyan context within an extremely changing and evolving world of work.
The future of work initiative (FWCI) is one of the seven initiatives earmarked for the centenary celebration of the International Labour Organization’s 100 years of existence.
This initiative was proposed by the ILO Director General in his first Report to the International Labour Conference, 2013 which set out some of the long-term challenges for the ILO as it approached its centenary. A central proposition of that Report was that processes of change were taking place at such speed and on such a scale as to constitute a transformation of the world of work. Therefore, the ILO needed to understand and to respond effectively to them in order to be able to advance its mandate for social justice.
According to Ms. Mary Kawar, Director for ILO Office for Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, the rationale behind the FWCI is to give the ILO and its social partners an opportunity to understand and respond effectively to changes in the world of work which will shape the nature and the work of the ILO in the next century.
“… the conversations will equip the organization to successfully take up the challenges into its second century and better serve partners in Kenya and worldwide…”. She said.
The one day event which will be officiated by Mrs. Phyllis Kandie, CS Ministry of East African Community (EAC), Labour and Social Protection will attract 150 participants from research institutions, universities, government, employers, private sector, youth and workers organizations and will have the following main objectives:
For more details contact:
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION
ILO Kenya Office
UN Complex Gigiri,
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: (254-20)- 76224648/24658, email:[email protected]
The future of work initiative (FWCI) is one of the seven initiatives earmarked for the centenary celebration of the International Labour Organization’s 100 years of existence.
This initiative was proposed by the ILO Director General in his first Report to the International Labour Conference, 2013 which set out some of the long-term challenges for the ILO as it approached its centenary. A central proposition of that Report was that processes of change were taking place at such speed and on such a scale as to constitute a transformation of the world of work. Therefore, the ILO needed to understand and to respond effectively to them in order to be able to advance its mandate for social justice.
According to Ms. Mary Kawar, Director for ILO Office for Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, the rationale behind the FWCI is to give the ILO and its social partners an opportunity to understand and respond effectively to changes in the world of work which will shape the nature and the work of the ILO in the next century.
“… the conversations will equip the organization to successfully take up the challenges into its second century and better serve partners in Kenya and worldwide…”. She said.
The one day event which will be officiated by Mrs. Phyllis Kandie, CS Ministry of East African Community (EAC), Labour and Social Protection will attract 150 participants from research institutions, universities, government, employers, private sector, youth and workers organizations and will have the following main objectives:
- To understand the future of work and how it contributes to defining how the ILO will realize its mandate on social justice as it enters its next century.
- To identify issues shaping the future of work in Kenya in relation to decent jobs, organization of work and production, governance of work, and work and society.
- To use this opportunity for a concrete dialogue at the NLB level for the purpose to reaching a common position on the issues facing Kenya. This common position through a Report will be the basis for a larger national dialogue to be convened in Nairobi at a date to be determined and to include a larger number of stakeholders.
For more details contact:
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION
ILO Kenya Office
UN Complex Gigiri,
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: (254-20)- 76224648/24658, email:[email protected]