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. © ILO/Aaron Santos 2022
    Promoting responsible business conduct through improved safety and health measures

    21 February 2022

    The ILO Sectoral Policies Department, Vision Zero Fund and the Better Work Programme are organizing a side session during the “2022 OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector”.

2021

  1. Meeting of experts to discuss and adopt a code of practice on safety and health in textiles, clothing, leather and footwear

    4 - 8 October 2021

  2. Advancing a just transition to a circular economy: Scaling up individual action to collectively driving systemic change

    15 September 2021

    An event co-organized by the ILO and the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE)

  3. 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.

2005

  1. Tripartite Meeting on Promoting Fair Globalization in Textiles and Clothing in a Post-MFA Environment

    24 - 26 October 2005