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The Institute for Labor Studies’ Labor and Employment Officer III Arianne Ishreen C. Bucar of the Workers Welfare Research Division made it to the list of Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Governance Pitching Competition winners along with her team that will be granted 2500 USD by the U.S. Embassy Kuala Lumpur to implement their gender-related project proposal.
Their project is titled "Gender Forward: Putting Gender in the Forefront of Budgets" and aims to engage the youth in gender-responsive budgeting through capacity building and open dialogue with local government leaders in Malaysia and the Philippines.
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Manila – The Institute for Labor Studies (ILS) organized its very first online DOLE Research Conference for 2020 via the Zoom online platform from 25-26 March 2021.
As a culminating policy advocacy activity anchored on this year’s theme of Revive and Thrive: Actions for Creating a Decent Future of Work Amid and Beyond COVID-19, the 9th DOLE Research Conference provided a venue for the Institute’s researchers to present the findings of researches conducted during this time of pandemic and elicit discussion and exchange of ideas on labor policy issues between and among various offices and agencies of the Department of Labor and Employment.
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The Institute for Labor Studies’ Acting Supervising Labor and Employment Officer Ronell Delerio presented his paper titled “Between Resilience and Transformation: Mental Health Policies, Interventions, and Challenges in the ITBPO Sector through the Covid-19 Crisis” before members of the IT & Business Process Association of the Philippines (IBPAP) during the organization’s first Mental Health Forum for 2021 with the theme, “Transitioning to the New Normal: Safeguarding the Mental Wellbeing of the IT-BPM Workforce” held last March 10.
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Manila – The Institute for Labor Studies’ Gender and Development (GAD) Committee lined up month-long online activities for all its employees in celebration of the International Women’s Month, which officially started on March 8.
The series of online events included a bi-monthly screening of two films, which were followed by a post-screening discussion among its employees.
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The Institute for Labor Studies Executive Director Ahmma Charisma Lobrin-Satumba emphasized the contribution of women to both global and local employment and discussed a way of increasing their labor force participation during her guesting in the radio/TV show Oh My Job in Super Radyo DZBB on 27 March 2021.
Host and former OWWA Administrator Arnel Ignacio engaged Exec. Dir. Lobrin-Satumba in the said topic involving women participation in labor force. She acknowledged the existing dilemma generally for women whether they should work or stay home to take care of the family.