The meeting will hold from November 30 to December 3, 2015.
ILO, in a press statement from the office of the Assistant Director General and Regional Director for Africa, Aeneas Chapinga Chuma said the organisation’s governing body adopted Ethiopia to host the meeting which holds every four years.
The statement said “promoting an inclusive and job-rich growth through decent work in Africa will be at the heart of the meeting which brings together – every four years – the political, economic and social actors of the world of work in Africa.”
“With more than 18 million new jobs needed every year in Africa, creating quality jobs for young African men and women is one of the most urgent post-2015 challenges, stated Mr Chuma,” urging the need “to embark upon inclusive growth paths that create decent jobs and reduce poverty.”
The meeting will “review, on the basis of the Report of the Director-General, progress on the implementation of the “Decent Work Agenda in Africa 2007–15” since the 12th African Regional Meeting (Johannesburg, South Africa, 11–14 October 2011) and adopt the strategic orientation of the ILO’s support to its tripartite African constituents for the next decade.”
The ILO pointed out that half of Africa’s population is under 35 years of age and according to its department of statistics, between 2014 and 2020, the African labour force aged 15 and over will grow annually by about 13.3 million.
