Employment and Skills at Local Level

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Routes out of the crisis: Strategies for local employment recovery and skills development in Asia

from 01-Dec-2009 to 03-Dec-2009

While no country has been spared from the effects of the financial and economic crisis, the diverse impact has been quite evident in Asia.
The joint ILO/OECD LEED meeting aims to strengthen the capacity of constituents, policy makers and practitioners at local level to undertake effective employment recovery and skills strategies in response to the financial and economic crisis.

Venue: Malang (Java), Indonesia

Capacity Building Seminar for Partnerships on "Designing and Delivering Skills Strategies for Cities", Trento, Italy

from 11-Jun-2008 to 13-Jun-2008

The objective of this seminar was to improve the capacity of partnerships to design and deliver integrated skills strategies. It focused on three main themes: (i) understanding local skills needs; (ii) building an integrated skills strategy and (iii) assessing the impact: moving from quantitative to qualitative assessment.

Conference on "Designing effective local employment and skills strategies", Taipei

from 01-Oct-2007 to 02-Oct-2007

This event was hosted by the Council of Labor Affairs and co-organised by the OECD LEED Programme.  The conference aimed to identify useful lessons from local experiences, while also looking at examples from selected OECD countries.

Conference on Decentralisation of Employment Policy and New Forms of Governance: Tackling the Challenge of Accountability, Warsaw, Poland, 27-28 March 2003

from 27-Mar-2002 to 28-Sep-2003

A LEED conference on decentralisation of employment policy and new forms of governance was held in Warsaw, Poland, hosted by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. For more information, please contact Sylvain.Giguere@oecd.org

Decentralisation of the Public Employment Service and Local Management of Employment Policies

from 23-Apr-1998 to 24-Apr-1998

A Conference on the Decentralisation of the Public Employment Service and Local Management of Employment Policies organised in co-operation with the Ministry of Labour and Social Security took place in Venice, Italy

Social Partnership and Regional Labour Market Councils

on 05-Dec-2000

A conference on social partnership and regional labour market councils, organised as part of the OECD Study on Local Partnerships, was organised in co-operation with the Public Employment Service of the Storstrom Region, in Naestved, Denmark

Conference on Sub-regional Employment Committees

on 27-Nov-2000

A conference on Sub-regional Employment Committees was organised as part of the Study on Partnerships in co-operation with the Ministry of Employment of the Flemish Region, in Ghent, Belgium