Sectoral meetings

Consensus building: international tripartite meetings

Several times per year, representatives of governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations from different countries and regions meet at the ILO Headquarters in Geneva, to participate in tripartite sectoral international meetings and global dialogue fora. Based on the most up-to-date research produced by the ILO, the tripartite representatives meet to debate emerging issues, main trends and challenges of their sector.
 
Consensus reached during such sectoral meetings results in recommendations for policy and action in the sectors. These recommendations, adopted at the end of the meetings, serve as a basis for the development of national policies and programmes, and provide guidance to constituents at international as well as country level.

Global sectoral meetings for 2022-23

2022

  1. Technical meeting on the protection of whistle-blowers in the public service sector

    26 - 30 September 2022

2021

  1. Sectoral Advisory Bodies 2021

    13 - 15 January 2021

    The Sectoral Advisory Bodies (SABs), composed of tripartite constituents engaged in economic sectors, were established at the 298th Session of the ILO Governing Body (March 2007) to review sectoral developments and to make recommendations to the ILO's constituents on priorities for sectoral work. Sessions of the SABs are held every two years, and they are chaired by a representative of the Government group of the Governing Body. Following the session held in January 2021 the SABs are to make recommendations on sectoral meetings to be held in the biennium 2022–23 and on preparatory work for sectoral meetings in future biennia. These recommendations will be submitted to the Governing Body at its 341st session in March 2021.

2018

  1. Meeting of Experts to adopt Guidelines on Decent Work in Public Emergency Services

    16 - 20 April 2018

2014

  1. Global Dialogue Forum on Challenges to Collective Bargaining in the Public Service

    2 - 3 April 2014

    The purpose of the Forum was for tripartite participants to discuss the impact of the economic and financial crisis on collective bargaining in the public service and other challenges to the development of good labour relations.

2010

  1. National workshop on promoting social dialogue on pension reform in public administration in Liberia

    12 - 14 October 2010

2009

  1. Sub-regional Workshop on Social Dialogue in the Public Service

    2 - 4 March 2009

2005

  1. National Workshop in Bulgaria on the ILO Guidelines on Social Dialogue in Public Emergency Services in a Changing Environment

    14 - 15 April 2005

  2. National Workshop in Kenya on the ILO Guidelines on Social Dialogue in Public Emergency Service in a Changing Environment

    20 - 21 January 2005