Decent Work and a Fair Globalization: National Policy responses
29 - 29 September 2005, an ILO Staff Seminar in Turin
 
Decent Work and a Fair Globalization: National Policy Responses. Turin, 26-28 September 2005. An ILO Staff Seminar
 

 
Welcome
Information note
Participants
Resources
 
Programme
Monday 26
Tuesday 27
Wednesday 28
Thursday 29
 

 


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Monday 26 September 2005
Arrival of all participants to Turin
16:00
Departure by bus from ILO Geneva to Turin Centre
20:00
Arrival and accommodation of participants
20:30
Dinner at ITC
Tuesday 27 September 2005
09:00
Welcome remarks
F. Trémaud

Session I - Introduction

  • National Policies to face up to globalization: challenges to the ILO (A. Berar)
9:30
Session II - Policy space and policy coherence: a review of concepts and initiatives
Chair: G. Rodgers
Discussion
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Session II - continued
  • Policy coherence initiatives: ILO, UN, others (G. Rodgers, Y. Akyuz)

Discussion

  • Coherence, coordination, alignment and harmonization debate at the country level (J. Sorensen)

Discussion

12:00
Lunch
13:30
Session III - National follow-up on Fair Globalization and DWCPs
Chair. F. Fluitman
  • Country examples:
    • Argentina (M.A. Pángaro, P. Poschen)
    • Tanzania (A. Ibrahim)

Discussion

15:00
Coffee break
15:30

Session IV - Migration and globalization: the multilateral framework and national policy agendas
Chair: J. Makheta
Panellist:: I. Awad  

Discussion

16:30 – 17:30

Session V - ILS and a fair globalization
Chair: L. Wirth
Panellist: C. Doumbia-Henry, K. Tsotroudi

Discussion
Wednesday 28 September 2005 []
9:00
Session VI - Industrial restructuring, global production chains and policy responses
Chair: B. Kyloh  
  • Post MFA examples
    Country responses: Bangladesh , Cambodia , Madagascar and Morocco (C. Vargha, G. Bhattacharya)
    The European response (P. Itschert)
Discussion
10:30
Coffee break
11:00

Session VI - continued

  • Governance rules: ILS, voluntary codes and national labour law (C. Vargha, P. Pinoargote)
  • Decent work and competitiveness: an integrated tool (D. Lamotte)
Discussion
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Session VII -   Trade policies and labour market reforms
Chair: J. M. Salazar-Xirinachs 
  • The Doha Development Agenda (E. Kessie, WTO)
  • Trade, FDIs and and labour market in developing countries (A. Ghose)

Discussion

  • Free trade agreements and Fundamental rights (J. Ritchotte)
  • International outsourcing: trends and policy issues (M. Luebker)

Discussion

 

16:00
Coffee break
16:30
Session VIII - Local development in the global economy
Chair:
Panellists: M. Bhattacharya, A. Posthuma, A. King Dejardin
  • New perspectives and challenges for local development
  • Role of public policy, public/private partnerships and communities
  • Local policies and decent work
Discussion
19.30

Departure by bus, from Reception
Dinner at Restaurant "Moreno"

Thursday 29 September 2005
09:00
Session IX - Moving forward
Chair: A. Berar, F. Fluitman
Panellists introducing examples of new research and tools (P. Peek, U. Efendioglu, R. Diez de Medina)

Working groups (tentative):

  • Region specific priorities
  • Research Agenda
  • Policy tools and instruments
10:30
Coffee break
11:00

Session IX - continued

Reporting back by working groups

Discussion

Concluding remarks
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Departure by bus for Geneva


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