Events and meetings

Events and meetings

  1. Global Entrepreneurship Week 2012: Town Hall Meeting on Women’s Empowerment through Entrepreneurship

    14 November 2012

  2. International Engineers Advances Training Course

    12 - 23 November 2012

    ILO and the Kenya Institute of Highways and Buildings train 11 engineers on management of public works

  3. Advancing women in Business and Management in Africa

    7 - 8 November 2012

    Participants from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and South Africa took part to a workshop held to strengthen employers' organizations to support enterprises at the country level to develop and implement policies on advancing women in business and management as a strategic business goal.

  4. Impact evaluation on Women’s Entrepreneurship and Development and Economic Empowerment (WEDEE)

    30 October - 23 November 2012

    Knowledge sharing: The ILO Somalia and Kenyan teams, Government of Kenya and social partners participated in a two day retreat in Naivasha for an impact evaluation on women entrepreneurs.

  5. African Judges trained on labour law

    26 October - 2 November 2012

    The ILO helped 25 African judges from Botswana, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia to fight sex discrimination in the courts but cultural challenges remain the biggest obstacle. The week-long course at the ILO’s training centre in Turin, Italy was organized by the ILO’s Bureau for Gender Equality.

  6. Workshops on convections 156, 183 and 189 between ILO office in Angola, Brazil, Portugal and Mozambique and tri-partite partners in Mozambique

    23 - 24 October 2012

    ILO office in Maputo in collaboration with its counterparts in Brasilia, Luanda and Lisbon organized a two days workshop to discuss and share experiences on implementation of Decent Work Country program with emphasis on equality conventions 156-Workers with Family Responsibilities, 183-Maternity Protection and 189-Domestic workers.

  7. High Level National Policy Dialogue

    22 - 23 October 2012

    The Ministry of Labour in collaboration with the International labour Organisation (ILO) held a successful High Level National Policy Dialogue between 22nd and 23rd October 2012 . The Vice President of the Republic of Malawi, Right Honourable Khumbo Kachali officially opened the policy dialogue

  8. Women in Africa Forum

    17 - 18 October 2012

    ILO was one of the sponsors to the 1st inaugural Women in Africa Forum.

  9. ILO and SADC to strengthen cooperation

    16 October 2012

    Mr. Arnold Chitambo from the Secretariat of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) paid the ILO Office an official visit for preparatory discussion on strengthening cooperation between both organizations. Mr. Chitambo met Vic van Vuuren, Director of the ILO DWT/CO- Pretoria and Joni Musabayana, ILO DWT/CO- Pretoria Deputy Director.

  10. South Africa’s Minister of Labour visits the ILO Pretoria office

    26 September 2012

    South Africa’s Minister of Labour, Mildred Oliphant and Mr. Les Kettledas paid an official visit to the ILO Office in Pretoria. They were hosted by the Director of ILO Pretoria, Vic van Vuuren and by the Executive Director for Social Protection, Ms Mauela Tomei.