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into account any relevant elements that may have emerged from the ILO’s preparatory work and the
comments of its supervisory bodies.
14.11. ILO TECHNICAL COOPERATION AND ADVISORy SERVICES
The International Labour Standards Depart- ment of the International Labour Ofice in Geneva
together with the ILO standards specialists in the regions work to give all kinds of training, explana-
tions, advice and assistance on matters relating to the ratiication and application of international labour
Conventions. These services are offered both in response to
speciic requests received from governments or employers’ or workers’ organizations and through
routine advisory missions and informal discussions initiated by the Ofice. Matters which may be dealt
with include the comments of the supervisory bodies and measures they might call for; new legislation;
and government reports to be drafted. The constituents may also send draft legislation to the
ILO for comment and advice. The International Labour Standards Department
also has a special technical cooperation programme on indigenous and tribal peoples, which
provides assistance to governments, indigenous organisations and other partners:
the Programme to Promote ILO Convention No. 169 PRO 169,
which aims at promoting the rights and improving the socio-economic situation of indigenous and tribal
peoples.
PRO 169 is based within the International Labour Standards Department and has ield coordinators in
a number of ILO ofices. PRO 169 works on a wide range of thematic as well as international, regional
and country-speciic issues. PRO 169 combines a lexible demand-driven approach, responding to
emerging needs and opportunities with longer-term strategic initiatives at regional and country-level.
In Africa, comprehensive research on the situation of indigenous peoples is undertaken in collaboration
with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and country-level activities in
Cameroon
, Kenya and Namibia are addressing policy reform, capacity-building of government
and indigenous partners as well as local economic development.
In Asia, the focus is on dialogue and conlict resolution as well as policy reform and capacity-
building of indigenous and government partners. In September 2007, a major achievement was reached
as
Nepal ratiied Convention No. 169 as part of the current peace and state reform process.
In Latin America , PRO 169 is increasingly
responding to needs and requests for technical cooperation related to the implementation of
Convention No. 169 , identiied through the ILO
supervisory bodies. More information is available at http:www.ilo.org
indigenous or through email: pro169ilo.org
14.12. ILO INfORmATION RESOURCES
The ILO’s website on indigenous and tribal peoples issues http:www.ilo.orgindigenous,
contains a series of information resources, manuals, guidelines and information about ILO programmes
and projects on indigenous peoples’ rights. The Programme to Promote ILO Convention No.
169 PRO169 has established a
training website,
which provides a series of materials for conducting training on indigenous and tribal peoples’ rights,
including videos, power point presentations and background materials http:www.pro169.org.
ILOLEX http:www.ilo.orgilolex is the
ILO’s trilingual database Spanish, French and English,
which provides information about ratiication of ILO Conventions and Recommendations, comments
of the Committee of Experts, Representations, Complaints, interpretations of ILO Conventions, and
numerous related documents. In ILOLEX, you can search for information about a speciic Convention
andor a particular country. ILO’s database APPLIS provides information on
the application of International Labour Standards. The ILO Handbook of procedures relating
to international labour Conventions and Recommendations revised edition 2006, offers
detailed information on issues such as ratiication and supervision.
The website of the International Labour Standards Department is a comprehensive source
of information regarding the ILO standards system and related activities http:www.ilo.orgnormes
