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Jobs and Green Skills in a Brown Philippine Economy, which

was jointly published by the ILO and the UP Press in 2010.
He also edited the DOLE’s history book, Balik-Tanaw, Bagong
Pananaw: 75 years of DOLE, published in 2010. He is a seven-

time recipient of the UP’s “International Publication” Award
and two-time awardee of the “UP Centennial Professor” Award.

In 1995 - 96, Dr. Ofreneo joined a small group of re-
search professionals who backstopped the peace negotiation
efforts of the Office of the Executive Secretary with the Moro

National Liberation Front (MNLF). His task in the group was to
outline the socio-economic issues in the MNLF areas.

Dr. Ofreneo has been an active advocate of a people-
centered ASEAN. He edited the Manual on Good Industrial
Relations Practices, which was published in 2013 by the ASEAN/

ILO-Japan Bilateral-Multilateral IR Project based in Bangkok.
He contributed the chapter on “Social Dialogue and Industrial

Relations” in the book Labour Laws and Practices in ASEAN
(2013), a joint publication of the ASEAN Secretariat, Association
of Trade Union Employees Council, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

and the Ministry of Labor of Vietnam. As a Consultant in the
World Bank’s 2013 Report on “More and Better Jobs” in the

Philippines, he wrote the background papers on how to man-
age the contentious issues of “labor outsourcing” and how to
reduce the huge compulsory arbitration backlogs in dispute

settlement.

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