Creating a conducive environment for the effective recognition and implementation of fundamental principles and rights at work in Egypt

Overall objective: Create a conducive environment for the effective recognition and implementation of fundamental principles and rights at work. Immediate Objective 1: Expand awareness and understanding of fundamental principles and rights at work and their linkages with democracy and sustainable development. The project’s first immediate objective will be to expand awareness and understanding on the effective recognition and implementation of these rights. This will be primarily done through a national public awareness raising campaign combining social market strategies and media advocacy in Cairo, Alexandria and several urban cities in Gharbiya and Upper Egypt. Immediate Objective 2: Enhance the capacity of the labour administration to promote and implement public policies, national labour legislation, and sound industrial relations. The project’s second immediate objective will be devoted to enhance the capacity of the labour administration to promote and implement labour policies, standards and sound industrial relations. To do so, the project will give initial priority to strengthen the implementation of good governance principles in the labour administration. Immediate Objective 3: Enhance the institutional capacity of independent unions and employer’s organizations to effectively exercise the rights of freedom of association and collective bargaining. The third immediate objective will focus on enhancing the capacity of employers’ and worker’s to exercise the rights of freedom of association and collective bargaining. The project will support the design and implementation of a plan of action on organizational development for all the newly created unions and their Federation

Project symbol

EGY/11/03/USA

Admin unit

DWT/CO-Cairo

Start date

16/08/2011

End date

29/02/2016

Total allocation

6435643

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

5085025

Development Partners

USA, Department of State

Country/Countries

Egypt

Outcomes

Ratification and application of international labour standards