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ILO decentralizes its
activities and structure
The establishment of the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP), the admission of a growing number of Member States asking for technical cooperation and
the recommendations made by the ILO's regional meetings prompted the ILO
Director-General, David A. Morse, to launch a process of administrative decentralization.
The first decentralization measures were taken by the Director-General in 1965
with a view to enhancing ILO′s effectiveness. The objectives of this
thorough reform of the Organization′s administrative structures were to:
- move the Organization closer to its Member States – and the employers′ and
workers′ organizations from individual countries – in order to improve
knowledge and mutual understanding of goals, needs and plans;
- ensure that ILO studies and
publications were based on more direct knowledge of conditions and
needs in the Member States;
- promote broader adherence to ILO standards;
- improve cooperation with regional
organizations;
- rapidly provide Member States with
assistance and with advisory services on labour and social issues,
using teams of technical staff familiar with local conditions;
- heighten the effectiveness of ILO
external activities by entrusting personnel from external services,
rather than central services at headquarters, with the task of
resolving administrative and technical issues that could be dealt with
to better advantage on the spot.
Four major steps were taken to attain those objectives:
- a network of regional, area and
country representative offices was established in the various regions;
- a corps of regional advisers and
technical staff was sent to the regions;
- adequate administrative machinery was
introduced in the regions;
- clear lines of communication were
established and responsibilities between headquarters and the field
organization defined.
(Source: Programme and budget for the biennium 1970-71, 52nd
Financial Period, ILO, Geneva, 1969, p. 13.)
Opening of the
International Training Centre of the ILO (Turin)
Designed
to further the economic and social development of the Member States and to strengthen the role of the constituents, the Centre
organizes courses for senior staff from private and public companies, the
directors of vocational training systems or facilities, the leaders of
trade unions and employers′ organizations, civil servants and other
national officials in charge of formulating and implementing social policy,
of the economic promotion of women and of human resource management.
Almost 70,000 people from 172 countries and territories have received some
form of training since the Centre opened.
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