Trade Unions for Social Justice

The project Trade Unions for Social Justice is designed to contribute to the implementation of ILO’s Outcome 10: Workers have strong, independent and representative organizations. Building on lessons learned and achievements of the last phase (2010 – 2011), the project will pay particular attention to capacity building, campaigns for ratification and implementation of ILO’s Core Conventions, increasing trade union influence over national policy issues pertaining to labour and, linked to these aims, strengthening trade union platforms in countries in which trade union fragmentation is a challenge. The Development Objective for the project is that “Workers have strong, independent and representative organizations”, which has the following immediate objectives: I.O.1: Improved capacity of national trade unions in the areas of collective bargaining, trade union services, gender equality and participation in the DWCPs; I.O.2: Strengthened national trade union platforms and regional networks to enhance union influence on national policies. The project’s direct beneficiaries will be workers’ organizations at national, regional and global levels. The ultimate beneficiaries of stronger trade unions would be the workers in the target countries as the unions would contribute to a positive development in the countries and regions targeted. India, Nepal and Cambodia will be the core countries, where the project will function as the main agent for implementation of the overall work on Outcome 10. In Armenia and Moldova, the project will contribute to the Outcome 10 at national level, and in Latin America and Africa at regional level.

Project symbol

GLO/12/58/NOR

Admin unit

ACTRAV

Start date

01/01/2012

End date

31/12/2014

Total allocation

4356576

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

4356576

Development Partners

Norway, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Country/Countries

Global

Outcomes

Workers' Organizations