Employers' organizations, like the enterprises they represent, are a key asset of any society. Moreover, they are instrumental in creating employment and improving living standards. They help enterprises to be successful by influencing the environment in which they do business and by providing services that improve their individual performance.

Training is crucial to building up the capacity of employers' organizations and enterprises to participate in setting national agendas for advancing employers' interests and to play an effective role as social partners.

We work closely with ILO Geneva and the International Organisation of Employers (IOE) to offer training and experience-sharing opportunities to employers' organizations in a wide range of fields, including:

• capacity-building
• strengthening employers' organizations' outreach to SMEs
• strategy-based development of the structures and management of employers' organizations
• industrial relations
• corporate social responsibility and related topics
• productivity
• HIV/AIDS in the workplace
• occupational safety and health
• eliminating child labour
• international labour standards and the ILO's supervisory machinery.

Activities in this area of expertise are conducted by the following training units:

Employers' Activities

Standards and Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work

Employment and Skills Development

Enterprise, Microfinance and Local Development Programme 

Social Protection

Social Dialogue

Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications (DELTA)