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 Subregional Trade Union Seminar on “Strengthening Sectoral Social Dialogue in South East Europe and Moldova” for workers’ organizations from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYR Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo [as defined by UN Security Council Resolution No. 1244]
9-10 October 2008, Budapest, Hungary
The seminar is part of the Austrian funded project on “Consolidating the legal and institutional foundations of social dialogue in the countries of Western Balkans and Moldova”.
The objectives of the seminar are:
- to discuss the aims and goals of the project,
- to address the gaps in the trade unions' infrastructure, organisations and management capacities; enhance their skills in bipartite social dialogue and to increase the quality of the women employees' bargaining skills in order to rebalance the wage power between men and women workers,
- to set up the Project Advisory Team.
Two two-day workshops funded by the Austrian Development Agency were held during the week of 29 September - 3 October 2008 on collective bargaining and negotiating skills in the FYR Macedonia and Albania, respectively.
The workshops aimed at assisting those who participate in Economic and Social Council meetings, those who might soon be representing employers at those forums, and those who engage in collective bargaining - national, sectoral or at enterprise level. Staff members of the Employers' Organisations in these countries also attended as with the material provided this will be an on-going service offered to the wider membership.
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New Decent Work Country Programme for Albania to promote balanced social and economic development
BUDAPEST (ILO news) – The International Labour Organization (ILO), the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities of the Republic of Albania and the organizations representing employers and workers in Albania announced a new partnership on 24 September 2008 in Tirana, Albania.
The Albanian “Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) 2008 – 2010” which was launched in the presence of the UN Resident Coordinator for Albania promotes decent work as a key to development.
The Programme concentrates on three priorities: strengthening the capacity of government institutions and the social partners to improve the governance of the labour market; supporting government action to reduce the informal economy; and improving the coverage of the social protection system.
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The ILO-SRO Budapest, in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities of Albania, organized the Fourth Tripartite National Labour Conference on “Addressing the problem of informal economy in the construction sector through social dialogue in Albania” on 23 September 2008 in Durresi, Albania, as a follow up to the Conference held in 2007 on informality and undeclared work in the Albanian economy.
The informal economy is widespread in Albania. It is of a great concern for the government, employers’ and workers’ organisations as well as the priority of the new Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) 2008 – 2010 for Albania. The experience of several European countries shows that through social dialogue the government and social partners can work together to build an effective strategy to address this problem.
There is no reliable data on the extent of the informal economy and its features in Albania. In order to address this gap, the ILO carried out, in consultation with tripartite constituents, a study aimed at assessing the extent of this problem as well as its causes with the view to collecting information, needed for policy action. It has chosen to focus on one sector, the construction sector, in order to have measurable impact.
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Study on Micro-finance Support to Start-up in Serbia
by Igor Brkanovic, Milan Lalovic, Aleksandar Lakic, Srdjan Tilger
2007 Belgrade, Serbia
Available in pdf in English and Serb
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Flexicurity. A relevant approach in Central and Eastern Europe
by Sandrine Cazes and Alena Nesporova,
Geneva, ILO, 2007
The new ILO study says that economic growth has accelerated in Central and South Eastern Europe after 2000, but it has not adequately translated into employment creation. The positive economic trend also coincided with a relative worsening of youth unemployment and decreasing protection at the workplace. The study argues that an approach combining flexibility and security is the most relevant for the region and suggests appropriate reforms of economic, labour market and social policies. ILO Online spoke with the co-authors and editors of the book, Sandrine Cazes and Alena Nesporova. Interview with the authors |
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Biz-up: Self-employment skills for young people
Facilitators' guide and a toolkit
User's guide
by Valli Corbanese, Gianni Rosas, Geneva, ILO, 2007
The aim of the Guides "Biz-up: Self-employment skills for young people" is to raise awareness on the set of skills that are important for self-employment creation, but also for responding to changing labour market demand and for encouraging young people to find new ideas and ways of doing things. These Guides have been designed for the promotion of self-employment through group sessions organized by staff of labour market institutions in charge of employment promotion. They can also be used by employment service advisers while providing counselling services and preparing individual employment plans for young people." The package consists of a guide for facilitators and a toolkit and of a user's guide that can be used to inform the development of similar tools that are crafted according to the specificities of the national context. |
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| ILO Film |
| Fully fit at work |
Film about the advantages of employing persons with disabilities. As this ILO film (Fully Fit at Work) shows, not only may people with disabilities be more productive, they may actually be more skilled in some jobs than non-disabled people. Produced for the ILO by the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.
Watch the film online in Polish with English subtitles. Duration: 21 min 11 sec
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Press release in English and
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A package for social and economic progress
The Albanian pilot of the One UN Programme will make use of the experiences of the International Labour Organization (ILO) gained in the field. As the only tripartite organisation within the United Nations system, the ILO plays a key role in involving social partners in the recently launched UN reform process.
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