This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service - if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at http://ift.tt/jcXqJW.
Tuesday 27 Oct 2015 - 10:37 Makkah mean time-14-1-1437
Jakarta (IINA) – Indonesia will host the 3rd edition of the Islamic Conference of Labor Ministers in Jakarta from October 28 to 30.
The three-day event, which will bring together under one roof the ministers in charge of labor, employment and productivity from the member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), will be opened by Indonesian President Joko Widodo. OIC Secretary General Iyad Ameen Madani will review, in his address, the progress made toward the implementation of the OIC Framework for Cooperation on Labor, Employment and Social Protection.
The conference entitled “Mainstreaming Youth Employment and Occupational Safety in OIC Member States”, is timely considering the fact that in recent years the average unemployment rate in OIC countries fluctuated between 7.6 percent and 8.8 percent of the total OIC labor force, while world average unemployment rate remained around 7%. In addition, the average youth unemployment rate in OIC countries reached 16 percent against the world average of 12.9 percent, even as the female unemployment in OIC countries averaged 9.4 percent against 5.3 percent in other developing countries and 7.4 percent in developed countries in 2014. The rate of female unemployment is higher than 20 percent in some OIC member states.
The agenda of the ministerial conference includes presentations by the Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC) and the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) on activities within the framework of OIC Occupational Safety and Health Network (OIC-OSHNET), OIC Public Employment Services Network (OIC-PESNET) and Youth Employment Support (YES) Program. The conference will also finalize and adopt the constituent instrument of the OIC Labor Center, which is expected to be a new specialized institution of the OIC dealing with labor, employment and social protection issues.
Furthermore, the meeting will provide the ministers with opportunity to share their national experiences on strategies, achievements and challenges towards addressing unemployment, strengthening social protection systems and labor market policies, in particular occupational health and safety, among others.
At the end of its proceedings the conference is expected to adopt resolutions aimed at strengthening intra-OIC cooperation in the domain of labor, employment, occupational health and safety, and labor productivity. Some of the concrete deliverables of the Conference will include increasing capacity development operations in such areas as occupational safety and health, skill development for youth employment, and provision of literacy skills, among others.
AB/IINA
|
No comments:
Post a Comment