Kathmandu,
July 2: Tomoko Nishimoto, assistant director-general and regional director for
Asia and the Pacific of the International Labour Organization (ILO), concluded
her five-day visit to Nepal on Thursday.
During
her visit, she participated in discussions on trafficking of workers in the
foreign labour migration process, climate change, social protection, labour
law, job creation and formalization of informal economy, Sustainable
Development Goals (SDG) and the 2030 development agenda.
Nishimoto
met Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and gave her best wishes on the promulgation
of Nepal's new constitution. They discussed the need to focus development
efforts on the realization of rights, informed ILO in a press statement.
During
her meeting with Minister Bohara, she gave details of fair recruitment
guidelines being prepared by the ILO. "The fair recruitment guidelines
will be useful tool in helping to deal with the challenges," she said.
Nishimoto
attended a roundtable meeting with senior officials from workers' and
employers' organizations. The representatives of the respective organizations
briefed her on opportunities and constraints affecting the creation of more
decent jobs in Nepal in the context of increasing globalization.
She
also participated in the launching of National Dialogue on the Future of Work
centred around four thematic areas – work and society, decent work for all, the
organization of work and production and governance of work.
"The
world of work is undergoing major process of change, and this is affecting the
character of production and employment. Therefore, the country needs to prepare
itself from now on to face the challenges brought by transformation in the
world of future work," said Nishimoto.
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