Events and meetings

May 2023

  1. Youth employment and school-to-work transitions in Africa

    This webinar will disseminate the conclusions of seven country briefs and a cross-country review on youth employment and school-to-work transition, and underpin the ongoing engagements on promoting decent work for youth in the African region.

April 2023

  1. Employment policies for social justice

    The 2023 Symposium, organized in partnership with the European Commission's (EC) Joint Research Centre (JRC), focuses on the theme of employment policies and social justice. The Symposium will highlight the latest thinking on how integrated national employment policies tailored to the circumstances of countries promote inclusive transitions and social justice.

March 2023

  1. Harnessing satellite data to measure employment outcomes

    EMPLOYMENT Seminar #41

January 2023

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    Technical workshop on Care, Decent Work and Macroeconomic Policy

    This technical workshop will showcase results of the UN Women and - ILO Joint Programme collaboration, inform on key lessons learnt, share innovative approaches, and reflect on issues and strategic future perspectives on care, decent work and macroeconomic policy.

November 2022

  1. High-level meeting on “Social Dialogue With and For Youth”

    This high-level meeting for invited participants aims to trigger discussion and debate on the issue of social dialogue with and for youth.

July 2022

  1. Meeting of experts on decent work in the platform economy

May 2022

  1. Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFFs) to support full and productive employment and decent work for all

April 2022

  1. Labour overview of Latin America and the Caribbean in times of COVID-19

    EMPLOYMENT Seminar #39 - This seminar will present an updated overview of labour and income indicators of Latin America and the Caribbean since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to the end of 2021 to better understand the impact as well as the stage of recovery and serve as a basis to see which employment and labour market policies had an impact.

March 2022

  1. Employment Impact Assessments and Informality: The effectiveness of interventions to reduce informality in low- and middle-income countries

    EMPLOYMENT Seminar #38. This seminar will discuss the effectiveness of interventions to reduce informality based on a recent systematic review of impact studies.

  2. Lessons from the COVID-19 crisis: An unprecedented role for labour market policies?

    This webinar will take stock of the different labour market policies and programmes employed during the COVID-19 crisis, highlight key lessons and gaps in their implementation, and identify major issues for further policy monitoring during the recovery period. The event is supported by GIZ.

  3. Webinar on Career Guidance for Building Young People’s Future: The Role of Employment Services

February 2022

  1. How to monitor the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and the recovery process: Lessons from the ILO Monitor Series

    EMPLOYMENT Seminar #37. The seminar will discuss how to monitor and analyse labour market changes in a timely and cost-effective manner in times of crisis, drawing lessons from the ILO Monitor Series.

January 2022

  1. Gender-responsive employment policies for a job-rich and fair recovery

    A new generation of gender-responsive employment policies can play an important role to promote an inclusive and job-rich recovery from the COVID-19 crisis. This webinar will bring together experts and policymakers from different regions to share knowledge on how they have produced specific diagnostics on how women and men have been impacted by the crisis, and the ways in which they have progressed in implementing gender-responsive policies.

November 2021

  1. Employment policies for a job-rich recovery and a better future of work

    This year’s symposium focused on the follow-up to the Global Call to Action for a human-centred recovery from the COVID-19 crisis that is inclusive, sustainable and resilient. Towards this aim, it reviewed the available evidence and discussed policy approaches to assist ILO constituents in their efforts to promote labour market recovery and structural transformation processes that will shift economies to a new and better normal.

  2. Internships, Employability and the Search for Decent Work Experience

    EMPLOYMENT Seminar #36

October 2021

  1. Youth employment and COVID-19: Some lessons from the crisis

    EMPLOYMENT Seminar #35,

  2. Launch of the ILO Employment Policy Gateway

    The first publicly available online platform on employment policies, and youth employment strategies.

June 2021

  1. Massive Online Open Course - Business and Decent Work: How enterprises contribute to achieve decent work for all (SDG 8)

May 2021

  1. ILO Online Course on ''Monitoring and Evaluation of Youth Employment Programmes"

    The International Labour Organization (ILO) in partnership with the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) is organising an online training course intended to capacitate participants to develop and implement results measurement plans for youth employment programmes and contribute to the monitoring and evaluation framework of the Nigerian Youth Employment Action Plan (NIYEAP).

  2. Taking stock of the COVID-19 crisis: the impact on the labour market and how countries have responded

    The Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) jointly organized a webinar on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the labour market and how countries have responded.