Online meeting held with ILO National Coordinator

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2021-02-16 14:10:40

Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/. Chairman of the National Statistical Office B. Batdavaa held an online meeting with International Labor Organization’s National Coordinator in Mongolia P. Bolormaa and other officials on February 15.

At the beginning of the meeting, the Chairman of the NSO thanked the ILO for its cooperation in projects and programs to improve labor market statistics and strengthen national statistical capacity.

During the meeting, the ILO National Coordinator exchanged views on some issues, including providing support to calculate decent employment annually within the framework of SDGs, joining the ILO Convention No. 160 on Labor Statistics of 1985, using statistical data for policy development, organizing joint online training as well as assessing situation and impact of informal employment.

Moreover, the NSO Chairman B. Batdavaa asked for ILO’s support to conduct the Child Labor Surveys independently within the 2021-2025 program on the labor statistics development, and to collect statistical data during the pandemic and conduct green work surveys regularly. He also emphasized that he would focus on cooperating with international organizations in providing statistical information to consumers and on assessing informal employment.