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The ILO Association of Japan ,Inc.

WHAT IS IT ? and WHAT DOES IT?

Programmes and Activities

�T　ILO Promotion Activities

    For the purpose of promotion and dissemination of the ILO values and cooperation with the ILO activities, the Association undertakes the following activities with various related organizations in order to promote national consciousness towards international cooperation particularly among workers and employers.

1. Publication and publicity activities

(1) Publication of periodical "World Labour" (monthly issue) in Japanese　Issue of a periodical compiling articles, commentaries and information on the ILO and overseas social and labour situations. 

(2) Issue of "Year Book of Labour Statistics" in Japanese　Yearly issue of the Japanese edition of "Year Book of Labour Statistics" of the ILO; the most comprehensive statistics, which includes data on employment, unemployment, working hours, wages, labour costs, occupational injuries.

(3) Promotional seminar on the ILO

 Implementation of cooperative activities to the ILO associations set up in prefectural level in Japan including arrangement of lecturers

2. Projects to support organising collaborative bodies to the ILO activities in Asia

For the purpose of sustainable economic development and improvement of balanced working conditions in Asian countries the ILO Association of Japan is specifically doing the following activities with extension of its networks exploring creation of a confederation of ILO associations in Asia in cooperation with collaborative bodies to the ILO such as the ILO Association of Korea, which contribute to dissemination and
assertion of the ILO values. 

    (1) Exploration of creation of the Confederation of ILO associations of Asia

    (2) Hold various seminars at national and international level

    (3) Publicizing materials in different languages

         

�U　International Technical Cooperation Programmes

1. International Skill Development Training Scheme (I.S.D.T.S)

  The association have conducted this training programme, by the requests of the workers and employers in the Asia and Pacific developing countries, receiving worker's trainees from developing countries in Japan for the purpose of contributing to human resources development of the beneficial countries that is a basis for national development.

  The scheme recorded the 91st courses in 2003, covering 42 countries and 4,815 trainees.

2. Cooperation Promotion programme for Labour-related Issues in Developing countries

   This programme is conducted in cooperation with the Japanese workers and employers' organisations to make Japanese social partners contribution to their counterparts in developing countries. This programme reflects the increased interest to Japanese national experiences of workers and employers in the economic and social development by the social partners in Asia and Pacific countries. This programme produces mutual benefits of the executing and beneficial organisation.

 

�V　International Exchange Programmes

1. Seminar on Labour-management Relations Policy Development

 The ILO Association of Japan, as an executing organization, has organized this seminar since the fiscal year 2002.

Participants

 Participants should be middle-level officials in the labour administration in developing countries with relevant working experiences more than three years.  Also, participants should be expected to contribute to the development of labour administration on continuous basis.

Programme

 Introduction and study on the industrial relations system, experiences and the agenda to be tackled through having lectures of industrial relations and visiting social partners in Japan.

Objectives

 It aims at providing relevant information and lessons to stabilize industrial relations in the participants’ countries.

2. ASEAN Programme on Industrial Relations

  According to the request for the co-operation in the labour field expressed in the Labour Minister’s meeting of ASEAN+3 (Japan, South Korea and China) held in Laos in May 2001, this programme aims at promoting internationally mutual understandings on labour practices and also contributes to the stability of employment and improvement in welfare by sponsoring opportunities to share the experiences through dispatching Japanese Expert on labour to National Seminars and tripartite practitioners to Regional Seminar.

�W　Foreign Labour Information Services Programmes

 The efforts to attain the values of the ILO should be based on the real and background situations of labour and society.  The Association provides following information services on the fresh facts concerning labour and social situations to introduce extensively to the persons with interest.

1.  Seminar of Overseas Labour Situations

  The Association holds periodically a Seminar of Overseas Labour Situations co-organised with The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training(JILPT). Lectures and briefings on foreign labour situations are undertaken by labour -attache and other experts.

2. Confabulation Meeting of Persons concerned with the OECD

  It offers information services and exchange views on the OECD activities among the persons with interest at the government, the member of TUAC and BIAC of the OECD.

3. Planning and organising of the Overseas Labour Situations Study Team

  This project aims at promotion of understanding and cooperation with the ILO and national consciousness for international cooperation. Each study team has collected the direct facts of labour and social situations in the western countries that are actually based on the ILO activities. The members participated in the team could deepen the recognition of universality of labour issues.

�X Study and Research Activities

  The Asian region with huge population has still suffered from poverty and unemployment and other labour and social spheres. The international organisations like the ILO and the donor countries such as Japan by the ODA have undertaken the technical cooperation in the field of labour. The research project focuses on formation of technical cooperation project that enables a project fit the actual needs in a recipient country,and explores more efficient technical cooperation by the project evaluation and examination since the national budgetary restructuring is undergoing strongly in Japan. The forum provides exact and first-hand information on foreign labour law to tripartite constituents of the ILO. Also,it offers basic materials introducing Japan's labour law to overseas as well as contributing to setting international labour standards of the ILO. The project aims at fostering capable researchers of labour law with international viewpoints.