Mission statement

To be the leading global provider of learning and training for the world of work. Our learning, knowledge-sharing and institutional capacity-building activities and programmes for governments, workers’ and employers’ organizations and other development partners are based on the latest thinking, best practices and comparative experiences in the fields of:

• rights at work
• enterprise, microfinance and local development
• employment and skills development
• social protection
• social dialogue, tripartism, labour law and labour administration
• workers’ and employers’ organizations
• gender and non-discrimination
• sustainable development and governance
• learning methodology and technology

Regular programmes are offered in a multicultural and multilingual environment at the campus or through e-learning. Tailor-made programmes are offered at the organizational, national or regional level.