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May 2023
NEWSLETTER #231 |
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The OAS Department of Effective Public Management launches 11th Call for the Inter-American Award for Innovation in Public Management
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The Inter-American Award for Innovation for Effective Public Management was launched with the objective of identifying, collecting, systematizing, and disseminating innovative experiences that national and local governments are carrying out in the Americas in terms of effective public management.
The evaluation criteria include the following categories: uniqueness, value and public benefit, replicability, efficiency, sustainability, and a gender, diversity, and human rights perspective.
The 11th Call is open until August 15, 2023.
We encourage all Ministries of Labor to apply to this Call with their innovative management practices!
To learn more about this Call, click here.
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The 12th Caribbean Labour Ministers’ Meeting concluded
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Under the auspices of Guyana’s Ministry of Labour and the International Labour Organization (ILO), the 12th Caribbean Labour Ministers’ Meeting was held on May 23-25 in Georgetown, Guyana. The meeting was attended by 13 Ministers of Labor from ILO member states and 9 non-metropolitan territories of the English and Dutch-speaking Caribbean.
The objectives of the meeting were to: provide a forum to exchange perspectives on the global, regional, and national actions needed to accelerate the mainstreaming of social justice for transformative socio-economic development, to address labor migration as a potential enabler of decent work and an accelerating factor in the development of the Caribbean, and to examine the progress of the Caribbean in just transition policy.
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ILO Launches World Employment and Social Outlook Report: Trends 2023
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The ILO released a report with employment and social trends for 2023 to date that analyzes global patterns, regional differences, results by groups of workers and also offers projections of the labor market for the rest of 2023 and 2024.
Focusing on the trends in Latin America and the Caribbean, the report highlights that in the next period, given the reduction in the GDP growth rate, employment will slow down and will only be able to offset the growth of the working-age population, unemployment rates will not vary, and that the progress in formal employment creation that was recovered post-pandemic will stagnate, among other points on decent work and female employment.
See the report here.
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Argentina: Ministry of Labor started the Trade Union Training Cycle in the Staff Association of the University of Buenos Aires
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Brazil: The Inter-ministerial Working Group on Collective Bargaining held its first meeting
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Colombia: Government and Association of MSMEs met on labor reform
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Guyana: Ministry of Labour partnered with two new entities to expand training, part of the Board of Industrial Training
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Mexico: The Agreement to prohibit the importation of merchandise produced with forced labor enters into effect
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Panama: Ministry of Labor presented progress of the Public Policy for Employability and Labor Insertion of Young and Adult Women in Conditions of Socioeconomic Vulnerability (PEIM) Read more
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Paraguay: Ministry of Labor presented the Child Labor Vulnerability Index (IVTI)
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United States: DOL welcomes new Apprenticeship Ambassadors to promote, expand and diversify registered apprenticeships
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CEPAL: Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2022
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IDB: Caribbean Economics Quarterly: Volume 12, Issue 1: Reflections on Innovation and Productivity as Caribbean Businesses Emerge from the Pandemic More information
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