Port
of Spain (ILO News) - The International Labour Organization (ILO) in
collaboration with the Government of Brazil, will be undertaking a
South-South Cooperation Mission to Saint Lucia (
6th-7th March 2017)
and the Bahamas (
9th-10th March 2017).
This is the first of several planned missions within the framework of a
regional capacity-building Project for the Caribbean Countries that are
members of the ILO’s Regional Initiative Latin America and the
Caribbean
Free of Child Labour. The Project, which focuses on apprenticeships
(School-to-work transition) as a response to child labour issues,
commenced in July 2016 with the launch of Rapid Assessments of Child
Labour in the Bahamas, Guyana, Saint Lucia and Trinidad
and Tobago.
The visiting Delegation
will be comprised of experts and officials from the Ministry of Labour
and Employment, and the Ministry of Education of Brazil, the Brazilian
Cooperation Agency (ABC); and the ILO Decent
Work Team and Office for the Caribbean and ILO Brazil.
As part of the Mission,
the national Departments of Labour, in collaboration with their
respective Ministries of Education, have organized seminars and site
visits that will allow for more in-depth information
sharing by the Brazilian team and discussions with local stakeholders.
The exercise will also be used to explore and identify other specific
opportunities for the countries to receive targeted technical assistance
from the Government of Brazil in the area
of school-to-work transition.
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