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ILO and Pacific Islands Forum sign cooperation agreement
Agreement formalises collaboration and reinforces ILO’s commitment to the region.
Ensuring safety and health at work in a changing climate
Climate change is a real threat to worker safety across the Asia-Pacific region. To mark World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2024, ILO Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific Chihoko Asada-Miyakawa explains what needs to change.
Press release
Pacific employment report reveals persistent challenges despite job growth
New International Labour Organization report highlights how low-quality jobs are driving migration from smaller Pacific islands and calls for targeted policies for inclusive decent work.
Press release
Decent work towards 2050: Joint ILO-PIF Pacific Tripartite High-Level Dialogue opens
Government, employer, and worker representatives gather in Fiji to shape priorities needed for quality and inclusive employment growth across the region.
Media advisory
Pacific Tripartite High-Level Dialogue on Decent Work and the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent to take place 23-26 April 2024 in Suva, Fiji
Organized by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), the event will foster a coordinated and inclusive approach to ensure decent work in the Pacific.
Labour law
Pacific Island officials empowered to support labour law reform
Training supported by Australia helps strengthen capacity to ensure national legislation complies with international labour standards.
International Labour Standards
Papua New Guinea ratifies ILO Conventions on labour inspection, tripartite consultation and violence and harassment in the workplace
Papua New Guinea has now ratified 26 Conventions including eight fundamental conventions.
Entrepreneurship
Pacific on show
About 200 entrepreneurs from across the Pacific region attended the inaugural two-day Pacific Islands Entrepreneurship Expo.
Entrepreneurship
Expo harnesses Pacific core values: Vosarogo
Acting Minister for Trade, Co-operatives, SMEs and Coummunication, Filimoni Vosarogo said in the Pacific Islands Entrepreneurship Expo organized by the Ministry for Trade in collaboration with UNDP, the International Labour Organization, and the Asian Development Bank that the Expo is an opportunity to work together to harness the core values of Pacific communities.
Business
Expo to bolster business opportunities
The Pacific Islands Entrepreneurship Expo organized by the Ministry for Trade in collaboration with UNDP, the International Labour Organization, and the Asian Development Bank unleashed the potential of entrepreneurs and small enterprises.
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs hailed as catalysts for sustainable economic growth
The Pacific Islands Entrepreneurship Expo fosters innovation and collaboration in the Pacific Islands’ entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Press release
Evidence-based policy making: Unravelling opinions from facts in Pacific Island Countries
Training enhances capacity to use evidence and data to shape policies relating to the world of work
Labour migration
Pacific regional meeting on labour mobility sets path for partnership
Dialogue strengthens collaboration between trade unions and employers to help ensure safe and regular migration.
ILO and UNCDF collaborate to grow parametric insurance in the Pacific
New partnership to build the capacity of insurers and distribution channels on disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.
International labour standards
Papua New Guinea moves towards the ratification of three important ILO Conventions
1. Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190); 2. Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144); and 3. Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81).
Labour statistics
The Pacific region statistical and labour community benefit from an ILO training on the latest international statistics standards
The ILO Office for the Pacific Island Countries in partnership with the International Training Centre (ITC), the ILO Department of Statistics and the ILO Regional Office for Asia & the Pacific is conducting a Labour Market Statistics and Analysis Academy for the Pacific Island Countries.
Labour migration
Climate Change and Labour Mobility in Pacific Island Countries Policy Brief published
The International Labour Organization and the International Organization for Migration have jointly prepared a policy brief on ‘Climate Change and Labour Mobility in Pacific Island Countries.’
Upskilling Papua New Guinean youths to empower rural communities in transport infrastructure works
To build the capacity of the local workforce to support rural road transport infrastructure development projects in Papua New Guinea, the EU-STREIT PNG Programme trained and upskilled a new batch of interested young men and women in the Sepik region.
EIIP activities in PNG
Groundbreaking ceremony labour-based road works in PNG
The project in PNG funded by EU and implemented by FAO with an ILO component to improve the condition of transport infrastructure, mainly provincial, district or local level roads, air strips and jetties in East Sepik and Sandaun Provinces to create climate resilient and efficient value chain enablers for cocoa, vanilla, and fishery industries.
Labour intensive employment
ILO is set to rehabilitate roads in the Greater Sepik Region in Papua New Guinea under the EU-Funded UN Joint STREIT PNG Programme
ILO through the EU-STREIT PNG Programme creates employment opportunities for rural populations in the Sepik region by applying employment-intensive work methods in road maintenance works to improve the access of farming communities to markets.