Regional Trade Union Programme

Through the regional trade union project, FES pursues the following objectives:

• Consolidating the regional trade union structures in the MENA region and providing support for women's and youth structures.
• Promoting regional cooperation between unions
• Elaborating strategies and trade union position on the socio-economic themes such as social security, migration, informal sector and climate change.
• Developing e-learning methods to strengthen the knowledge about workers right.

To implement our projects, the regional trade union project works together with:

• Member of the executive and with young trade unionist. As well as officials and members of the national and sub-regional trade unions.
• Independent civil society organizations representing the interests of citizens and workers.
• Policy makers who have influence on the relevant issues;
• Workers, progressive scientific and intellectual elite dealing with social and trade unions rights.

The planned activities are for instance conferences, seminars, workshops, publications and information visits as well as dialogue. Additionally, more recent instruments such as animated videos and infographics can be used as learning material.

FES is working with varied partners including ATUC (Arab Trade Union Confederation) and the GUFs (Global Union Federation). The GUFs describe eight global trade federations representing national sector trade unions at the international level, along with the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC).