Promoting Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work in the Zambian Mining Sector

The project’s ultimate objective is to promote sound industrial relations and compliance with fundamental principles and rights at work in the Zambian mining sector. To this end, the project will establish and develop the capacity of a Tripartite Partnership Committee for the Mining Sector (TPCM) to promote tripartite trust and effective social dialogue and address core employment and labour issues (Immediate Objective 1). In parallel, the project will strengthen the capacity of the tripartite constituents to promote sound industrial relations and comply with international labour standards in the mining sector (Immediate Objective 2) and Enhance trade union capacity to better represent and serve their members, particularly through workplace cooperation and collective bargaining. In total, the project is expected to deliver seven interrelated and measurable outputs within 18 months: Tripartite Partnership Committee for the Mining Sector (TPCM) established and fully operational (Output 1.1); Members of TPCM more knowledgeable on the situation of labour rights and working conditions in the sector (Output 1.2); Tripartite agreement on shared priorities to improve sound industrial relations and labour law compliance in the sector (Output 1.3); Labour inspection task force for the mining sector established and better equipped to improve labour law compliance and assist social partners in the sector (Output 2.1); Increased number of mining companies improve labour law compliance (Output 2.2); Trade unions possess better skills and tools on workplace cooperation, collective bargaining and the prevention and resolution of labour disputes (Output 3.1); Joint strategy for coordinated and comprehensive collective bargaining developed by trade unions for the mining sector (Output 3.2). The project will build the capacity of social partner organizations and enable them to better reach out, train and represent their members

Project symbol

ZAM/14/01/USA

Admin unit

CO-Lusaka

Start date

13/08/2014

End date

29/02/2016

Total allocation

490106

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

482839

Development Partners

US Government

Country/Countries

Zambia

Outcomes

Promoting workplace compliance through labour inspection