political support from within the EC. This affects directly the perception of TUs as important actors to be supported. Therefore, the secretariat will keep liaising with the EC officials to advocacy the importance of social dialogue in development. In this respect, the research plan on social dialogue (see below) will be proposed. Some recommendations were provided by participants to improve future funding proposals by unions: Collect more data from project implementers and adapt trade union language to the funders’ language, despite the fact that funders do not seem to understand the reality on the ground in the South or social dialogue. Anticipate call for proposals. Start working on them before they are open. Build relationships with funders for better chances of success and to receive early warnings on future calls. To work on the rights budget line of the EU. For this particular issue, the secretariat highlighted that it should increase its capacity (in terms of human resources) in order to be able to enlarge the scope of the work. Increased capacity will result also in better coherence amongst trade unions themselves and within the ITUC, and therefore organisations are invited to raise this point also in the GC of the ITUC. For the moment, meetings in West Africa are postponed and alternatives are being considered. Global Action Plan: Post 2015 Before the end of 2015, TUDCN and ILO ACTRAV will try to organise an expert meeting to study indicators for the post 2015 framework & to develop better more concrete advocacy proposals. HRBA and The TUDCN will be in charge of developing a study (in the context of the CPDE) on how to increase the accountability of multinational companies when they receive public money for development projects. The outcome will be an advocacy tool for the whole of TUs and CSOs. See Terms of reference on the web site. Global Governance The TUDCN should define a position on global governance. This will need to be conceived in coordination with ACTRAV and also with other prominent CSOs. To this end a ‘brainstorming’ seminar will be organised in 2015. See background note on the web site.
political support from within the EC. This affects directly the perception of TUs as important actors to be supported. Therefore, the secretariat will keep liaising with the EC officials to advocacy the importance of social dialogue in development. In this respect, the research plan on social dialogue (see below) will be proposed. Some recommendations were provided by participants to improve future funding proposals by unions: Collect more data from project implementers and adapt trade union language to the funders’ language, despite the fact that funders do not seem to understand the reality on the ground in the South or social dialogue. Anticipate call for proposals. Start working on them before they are open. Build relationships with funders for better chances of success and to receive early warnings on future calls. To work on the rights budget line of the EU. For this particular issue, the secretariat highlighted that it should increase its capacity (in terms of human resources) in order to be able to enlarge the scope of the work. Increased capacity will result also in better coherence amongst trade unions themselves and within the ITUC, and therefore organisations are invited to raise this point also in the GC of the ITUC. For the moment, meetings in West Africa are postponed and alternatives are being considered. Global Action Plan: Post 2015 Before the end of 2015, TUDCN and ILO ACTRAV will try to organise an expert meeting to study indicators for the post 2015 framework & to develop better more concrete advocacy proposals. HRBA and The TUDCN will be in charge of developing a study (in the context of the CPDE) on how to increase the accountability of multinational companies when they receive public money for development projects. The outcome will be an advocacy tool for the whole of TUs and CSOs. See Terms of reference on the web site. Global Governance The TUDCN should define a position on global governance. This will need to be conceived in coordination with ACTRAV and also with other prominent CSOs. To this end a ‘brainstorming’ seminar will be organised in 2015. See background note on the web site.
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