| Meetings, Seminars, Workshops Year: 2007 | ||
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Title: Training Workshop on
Reporting on International Labour Standards for Selected Countries in the
Caribbean
Date: 27
February - 2 March 2007, Roseau, Dominica
Purpose:
This meeting is meant to provide hands-on training and
assistance to representatives of the Ministries of Labour that are responsible
for preparing reports on ratified ILO Conventions to the ILO’s Committee of
Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEARC). Four
representatives of workers’ organizations (2) and employers’ organizations (2)
will also be invited to attend so as to get training on the reporting process
and the inputs needed from them.
MARCH...
Title: Developing
campaigns for the ratification of ILO Conventions for Trade Unions in the Agriculture and Hotel Sectors in the Caribbean
Title:
Training Workshop
on Reporting on ILO Conventions 138 and 182 for countries participating in the
subregional project “Combating the Worst Forms of Child Labour in the Caribbean”
Date:
6-9 March 2007, Kingston, Jamaica
Purpose:
At the end of the
training activity, the participants will have increased their capacity to better
understand:
Title:
National Behaviour Change Communication
Workshop
Date: 26-29 March
2007, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Purpose:
Title:
National
Workshop to Develop a Workplace Policy on HIV/AIDS for Trade Unions
Date:
26-29 March 2007, St. Kitts-Nevis
Purpose:
The
workshop's objective is to sensitize members of the St. Kitts-Nevis Trades and
Labour Union (SKNTLU) about HIV and AIDS and to draft a trade union policy which
would guide the union's work in this area.
Title:
National
trade union workshop on the Decent Work Agenda and ILO Core Conventions
Date: 10-20
April, 2007, Jamaica
Purpose:
These
courses are aimed at exposing participants to the roles and functions of the
ILO, informing on the Decent Work concept and how the principles enshrined in
the ILO Core Conventions are implemented towards achieving equality in workers'
conditions globally and within the context of a fair globalization.
Title:
National employer
workshop on Small Enterprise Development in the CARICOM Single Market and
Economy (CSME)
Date: 18-19
April, 2007, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Purpose:
Following
participation in the Tripartite Caribbean Employment Forum in Barbados, in
October 2006, the Saint Vincent Employers' Federation (SVEF) has reviewed a
series of decent work agenda topics that they would like to promote/advocate
amongst their membership. The SVEF is equipping itself as a social partner to
contribute to a decent work country programme and will focus on SME Development
in the new CARICOM Single Market environment at this workshop.
Title:
National trade union
workshop for women in the trade union movement
Date:
23-27 April, 2007, The Bahamas
Purpose:
These
two workshops are aimed at greater participation of women in the trade union
movement and will focus on maternity protection, sexual harassment, and HIV and
AIDS in the workplace. The workshops will be held in Nassau and Freeport
so as to reach a larger audience of women trade unionists from the affiliates of
the National Congress of Trade Unions.
Title:
National employer
workshop on Modern Industrial Relations Practices
Date:
24-25 April, 2007, Grenada
Purpose:
This training
intervention is subsequent to recommendations proposed in the research project
completed by the Grenada Employers’ Federation (GEF) in 2006. The GEF Board
endorsed the findings that in order to take the GEF forward for serviceability
and sustainability, more interaction with members, through IR training and other
services on practical matters are of immediate importance to guide and advise
their members. The workshop objectives are to provide participants with a
better understanding of Industrial Relations aspects such as Collective
bargaining and Negotiating Skills and to assist members who may be engaged in
negotiations and other such consultations with their employees and/or trade
unions.
Title: 6th Meeting of
Ministers of Labour of the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean -- The Role of the Ministry of Labour in
Realizing the Decent Work Agenda for the Caribbean
Place and Dates:
15-16 May, 2007, Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Purpose:
· be fully briefed on items on the agenda of the International Labour Conference to be held in Geneva in June 2007, to allow discussion of those items and to formulate a Caribbean position on those items;
· be fully briefed on items on the agenda of the “2nd preparatory meeting for the Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labour” (to be held in July 2007) in which the labour dimensions of free trade agreements will be debated;
· be fully briefed on items on the agenda of the “Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labour” (to be held 11-13 September 2007) to allow discussion of those items and to formulate Caribbean positions on those items; and
· to discuss the establishment of a “social floor” within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and recent trends in migration.
Title:
Subregional Capacity-building Workshop
on Labour Legislation for ILO member States belonging to the Organization of
Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)
Date:
22-25 May, 2007, Castries, Saint Lucia
Purpose:
The purpose of the workshop is
threefold:
Title:
ILO/National AIDS Co-ordinating
Committee training workshop on HIV/AIDS and rights at work for HIV/AIDS focal
points in Ministries and enterprises
Date:
28-29 May, 2007, Trinidad and Tobago
Purpose:
The goal of the workshop is to enhance participants’
understanding of HIV/AIDS and fundamental principles and rights at work, and
strengthen their capacity to effectively lead an HIV/AIDS workplace response
within their organizations. The objectives include orienting participants to the
concerns of persons living with HIV in the workplace and in society and
increasing knowledge of international labour standards and the rights of workers
as they relate to HIV/AIDS including knowledge of the ILO Code of Practice on
HIV/AIDS and the world of work and the ability to develop and implement a world
of work policies and programmes addressing HIV and AIDS.
Title:
National trade union workshop for
members of Grenada Trades Union Council
Date:
5-7 June, 2007, Grenada
Purpose:
This
workshop targets Grenada Trades Union Council's leaders and activists in the
area of HIV/AIDS for a sensitization, and updating on the situation in Grenada
as well as drafting of a trade union policy on HIV and AIDS.
Title:
Caribbean Academy for the Management of
Employers’ Organizations (CAMEO): A Subregional Capacity-Building
Programme for National Employers’ Organizations of the Caribbean
Date:
25-29 June, 2007, Jamaica
Purpose:
The ILO introduces the first subregional capacity-building
programme under the banner: Caribbean Academy for the Management of
Employers’ Organizations (CAMEO). The five-day programme is being conducted
for Caribbean National Employers’ Organizations (NEOs) in collaboration with
ILO's Bureau for Employers' Activities (ACTEMP) ; ILO International Training
Centre, Turin, Italy; ILO Subregional Office for the Caribbean; and the Mona
School of Business of the University of the West Indies (UWI). The Programme
is patterned after the popular “ILGO” Programme on the Management of NEOs
currently conducted annually through the ILO Subregional Office for Central
America (San Jose) for NEOs in Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas
region. The modular training package: “The Effective Employers’ Organization”
recently produced for ILO ACTEMP by the University of Geneva International
Organizations MBA (Ref: ILO ACT/EMP 44) will serve as the primary training
materials to cover the broad themes of Governance, Strategy, Advocacy, and
Revenue-building. Case studies from selected Caribbean NEOs will be used to
interchange experiences and best practices to tailor the broad themes and other
topics relevant to present-day national and regional developments in the Caribbean.