Capacity building of employers' organizations in Ecuador

The aim of this project is to enhance the capacity of the employers’ organizations to develop proposals for productive development strategies, considering gender equality, non-discrimination and social dialogue as crosscutting issues. The public debates around the 2017 elections present an opportunity for the Ecuadorian business sector to elaborate, publicly disseminate and present to the representatives of the government, political parties, workers and society in general, the initiatives that - from the perspective of the private sector - can contribute to improving the environment for sustainable enterprises that create decent work and reduce informality. In addition, the project strengthens the institutional capacity of regional and local employers’ organizations by transferring methodologies and tools to design productive development proposals and business development promotion services. These proposals and services will either be implemented by the employers organizations themselves, or the organizations will promote their implementation by public institutions that are responsible for encouraging economic activity in general and SME development in particular.

Project symbol

ECU/16/01/RBS

Admin unit

DWT/CO-Lima

Start date

01/01/2016

End date

28/02/2018

Total allocation

249210

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

249210

Development Partners

Core voluntary funds (RBSA)

Country/Countries

Ecuador

Outcomes

Strong and representative employers' and workers' organizations