All events for region

Farmworker Indaba Highlights Social Challenges on Wine Farms

A presentation on Child Labour in South Africa

ECOSOC Youth Forum 2024

Youth Leadership in Action: Supporting work for, with, and by young people in forced displacement

A side event highlighting the importance of promoting self-reliance of forcibly displaced youth at Economic and Social Council Youth Forum 2024

Strengthening the Common Approach on BLMA and Skills Development among LMAG in EHoA

Tracking Progress: FCDO's In-Depth Review of Labour Migration Interventions in Kenya

A high-level monitoring visit on the ongoing ILO Better Regional Migration Management (BRMM) Program interventions in Kenya (Nairobi and Mombasa)

Training on Extending Social Protection to Migrant Workers

The ILO through the BRMM, FAIRWAY and JLMP LEAD projects, is organizing a regional training to build the capacity of stakeholders in extending social protection for migrant workers.

Africa Labour Migration Conference

The ILO and the African Union Commission, in collaboration with IOE and ITUC Africa held the African Countries Labour Migration Conference in October in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. The Dialogue among African countries focussed on fostering cooperation and consensus building on labour migration governance and the protection of African migrant workers. SDC through the FAIRWAY project was a key funder for the conference

Inclusive private sector development in forced displacement contexts

A technical knowledge-sharing event on engaging and developing the private sector in the humanitarian-development-peace nexus

ILO Research Department Training

Training on evidence-based policymaking for the African Labour Research Network (ALRN)

It is widely recognized that evidence (data, research, best practices) is essential for decision and policy making. In practice, the use of evidence in the policy-making touching the world of work is still at its early stages and unevenly practiced.

ILO Research Department Training

Regional training on evidence-based policymaking (Cote d’Ivoire, Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Togo)

It is widely recognized that evidence (data, research, best practices) is essential for decision and policy making. In practice, the use of evidence in the policy-making touching the world of work is still at its early stages and unevenly practiced.

Regional Symposium, 28-30 August 2023

Workers' Education and Capacity Building for Trade Union Revitalization in the Arab States

This regional symposium will bring together senior trade union leaders, academia and workers’ education institutions, activists and cooperation partners from the Arab States in a three-day virtual format from 28 to 30 August 2023. The three-day symposium aims to generate a collective analysis of the current state of workers’ education in the Arab Region, recommend and adopt innovative strategies and solutions to the pressing and emerging needs of workers in the context of an ever-transforming world of work through workers’ education, in contribution to the global strategy on workers education.

Regional Symposium, 23-25 August 2023

Workers' Education and Capacity Building for Trade Union Revitalization in Africa

This regional symposium will bring together senior trade union leaders, academia and workers’ education institutions, activists and cooperation partners from Africa in a three-day virtual format from 23 to 25 August 2023. The three-day symposium aims to generate a collective analysis of the current state of workers’ education in the Africa Region, recommend and adopt innovative strategies and solutions to the pressing and emerging needs of workers in the context of an ever-transforming world of work through workers’ education, in contribution to the global strategy on workers education.

Sub-regional workshop

Sub-regional workshop on on promoting social dialogue and decent work in the railways sector

Tripartite representatives will learn about social dialogue and share information and best practices on the main opportunities and challenges for social dialogue in the railways sector within their countries.

Training on the 19th ICLS Resolution on Employment and Labour Underutilization and the 20th ICLS Resolution on Work Relationship and Labour Migration for Tanzania

A five-day training in data management, analysis and dissemination of labour market statistics, including labour-migration statistics for staff of the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics

Regional meeting on "Women in Mining: women for a more inclusive mining future in Africa"

The ILO Regional Office for Africa (ROAF) and the Sectoral Policies Department (SECTOR) are jointly organizing a regional meeting on “Women in Mining: women for a more inclusive mining future in Africa”, in Dakar, Senegal, from 17 to 19 July 2023. The meeting aims to generate consensus and support for concrete actions to promote gender equality and decent work for women, and address the challenges they face in large and small-scale mining in Africa.

International Conference on Statistics of Cooperative – Measuring Cooperatives and Beyond

The ILO will host an international conference on statistics of cooperatives, as part of the cooperative statistics component of the Strengthening Social and Solidarity Economy Knowledge Base project.

SADC secretariat and ITCILO 5-days training

Pro-employment Macroeconomic and Sectoral Strategies for SADC Member States training

Regional Seminar

The 19th Regional Seminar for Labour-based Practitioners

Sharing views, experiences and reviewing developments in employment-intensive approaches to creating communities that are resilient to socio-economic, environmental and climate change hazards.

Research Seminar

The Blue Commons: How Privatising the Sea expands the Precariat by Guy Standing

The Blue Commons peels back the veil of the boundless exploitation and inherent criminality in the ocean economy.

ACCEL Africa

AUC-ILO Africa Forum on Child Labour “Harnessing Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives to address Child Labour”

The main objective of the event is to support the implementation of the African Union’s “Ten Year Action Plan to Eradicate Child Labour, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery”.

Research Seminar

The Good Jobs Challenge in Developing Countries by Kunal Sen

Prof. Sen will outline the challenges that developing countries are facing in creating good jobs, and to discuss key policy options that could create productive employment for unskilled and semi-skilled workers.