CIS National, Regional and Collaborating Centres
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The work of the CIS is shared with an international network of about 150 institutions in ILO Member States - National, Regional and Collaborating Centres. In most cases, these Centres are government agencies with direct responsibilities for labour affairs, but employers' organizations, workers' organizations and independent institutes are represented as well. They contribute to the processing and dissemination of information by collecting the relevant literature published in their countries and sending it to the CIS; they may also prepare abstracts of the documents, promote the publications of the CIS and other ILO units, produce translations of these publications, collaborate in the compilation of multilingual dictionaries in the area of occupational safety and health, participate in the annual meetings of the CIS Centres and engage in joint efforts to use the latest information technology to disseminate occupational safety and health information.
A country may have only one National Centre. When a National Centre is not enough to serve a country, for linguistic, geographical or demographic reasons, or when responsibilities for occupational safety and health are widely diffused, one or more Collaborating Centres may be named. It may also occur that no one institution qualifies as a National Centre, while one may be designated as a Collaborating Centre. A Regional Centre is an intergovernmental institution covering a region that shares the same objectives as CIS.
You can find information on our Centres in two ways. There is an alphabetic list of Centres here. For in-depth information, including a search engine that works on all the Centres' pages, visit our Centres Portal at http://www.ciscentres.org. By long-standing tradition, representatives of CIS Centres hold an annual Meeting to discuss current issues affecting the network, as well as to provide guidance to CIS
on how to serve the needs of the international occupational safety and health community better. Here is a list of cities where CIS Centres meetings have taken place since 1989: NOTES:
Since 2005, CIS has organized a number of regional meetings as well:
