Place and Date: Mexico City , Mexico , April 4 to 6, 2006.

Location: Meeting room “Dr. Gastón Novelo”, at the Centro Interamericano de Estudios de Seguridad Social (CIESS) , Mexico City .

The First Meeting of the Working Groups of the XIV IACML was attended by delegations from 19 Ministries of Labor of the Hemisphere. The delegations from Mexico , Barbados , Ecuador and Paraguay were headed by their Minister of Labor. The Meeting was also attended by representatives from the advisory bodies, COSATE and CEATAL, as well as specialized international organizations such as the PAHO and the ILO.

The Meeting's main purpose was to take action on tasks assigned by the Declaration and Plan of Action of Mexico, approved during the XIV IACML in September, 2005, to both Working Groups 1 and 2 of the Conference:

• Working Group 1: “Decent Work as an Instrument for Development and Democracy in the Context of Globalization” .
• Working Group 2: “Strengthening the Capacities of the Ministries of Labor to Respond to the Challenges of Promoting Decent Work in the Context of Globalization” .

Documents of the Meeting:

•  Conclusions of Working Group 1
•  Conclusions of Working Group 2 (coming soon)
•  Meeting's Agenda
•  Guide for Working Group 1
•  Guide for Working Group 2
•  Final Participants List
•  Conclusions and Results of the IACML Planning Meeting of December, 2005

Presentations during the Meeting:

Working Group 1:

- Presentation from Argentina on the “Coordination of Economic and Employment Policies”, by Mrs. Marta Novick, Deputy Secretary for Technical Programming and Labor Studies, Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security.

- Presentation from Panama on the “Progress in Policies on Employment and Decent Work in Panama ”, by Mr. Edwin Salamín Jaén, Vice-Minister of Labor.

- Presentation on the “SME Congress of the Americas and the 6 th National SME Week”, by Mr. Iván Ornelas, Director of International Relations, Secretariat of Economy of Mexico.

- Presentation from Costa Rica on the “Tripartite Sub-regional Employment Forum” within the framework of the SICA, by Mr. Jeremías Vargas Chavarría, Vice-Minister of Labor, Ministry of Labor and Social Security.

- Presentation from Venezuela on “National and Sub-regional Employment Policies and Programs: Experience in the Andean Community”, by Mr. Ruben Molina, Director of International Affairs of the Ministry of Labor.

- Presentation on the “ The Social Labour Dimension of MERCOSUR ”.

Special Intermediate Session

- Presentation from the ILO on “The XVI American Regional Meeting of the ILO and the Hemispheric Agenda for the Promotion of Decent Work”, by Mr. Leonardo Neves, Regional Office of Latin America and the Caribbean of the ILO.

Other basic documentation:

•  Provisional index of the ILO General Director's Report to the XVI Regional American Meeting.
•  Reflections on the Hemispheric Agenda for Decent Work.
•  Presentation with the Synthesis of the Policies, Objectives and Goals of the Hemispheric Agenda for the Generation of Decent Work.

Working Group 2:

- Presentation from El Salvador on “Public Employment Services” , by Mr. Walter Palacios, Director of International Relations, Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare of El Salvador.

- Presentation from Mexico on “The Construction of a Model for Labor Linkage: Mexico 's SNE Experience”, by Mrs. Sandra Barojas, Director of Occupational Information, General Coordination of Employment.

- Presentation from Venezuela on "Experiences in Employment Services of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela", by Mrs. Elizabeth Pinto, Director of Employment and Labor market Studies, Ministry of Labor. (coming soon)

- Presentation on “IPEC's Action in Latin America and the Caribbean”, by Mr. Guillermo Dema, Sub-regional Coordinator of the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour - IPEC / ILO.

- Presentation from El Salvador on “Combating the Worst Forms of Child Labor”, by Mr. Walter Palacios, Director of International Relations, Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare.

- Presentation from Costa Rica on the “Labour Process Reform in Costa Rica”, by Mr. Jeremías Vargas Chavarría, Vice-Minister of Labor, Ministry of Labor and Social Security.

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Final Report Santo Domingo

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First Meeting of the Working Groups of XIII the Inter-American Conference of Secretary of Labor (IACML)

Second Meeting of the Working Groups in the Framework of the XIII Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor(IACML)

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