SOLiD-South Mediterranean Social Dialogue is a 42-month program with a budget of 3,333,249 euros, 90% funded by the European Union. It is coordinated by a consortium made up of four partners: The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), The Arab Trade Union Confederation (CSI-AR), The Mediterranean Union of Business Confederations (BUSINESSMED-UMCE), The Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND).
The SOLiD project is the result of long-term support from the European Union for social dialogue in the Mediterranean region; it strengthens economic and social councils and gradually opens up dialogue to civil society organizations.
The SOLiD pilot project, implemented in three countries (Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia), integrated civil society as a full partner of the project, alongside and at the same level as employers 'and workers' organizations, and contributed to the development of the Charter for the Promotion of Social Dialogue in the Southern Mediterranean Countries.
The SOLiD II project aims to strengthen the capacities of social actors (trade union organizations of employers and employers and their counterparts, trade union organizations) in Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia, in order to promote institutionalized, strengthened, dynamic and inclusive social dialogue.
OBJECTIVES
The Overall Objective of the SOLiD II programme is to to contribute to the improved social dialogue in the target countries, namely the pilot countries (Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia) as well as the new ones (Algeria, Lebanon and Palestine).
The component to be implemented by the International Trade Union Confederation and its partners, aims at enabling an inclusive and structured social dialogue. It will translate the Charter to promote social dialogue in the South Mediterranean into concrete national action plans in the countries of the pilot phase (Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia) and extend the action to 3 new countries, Algeria, Lebanon and Palestine.
The objective of this component is to strengthen the consultative role of economic and social partners, including the broader civil society, in the Euro-Mediterranean region; to promote a dynamic, inclusive and reinforced institutionalised social dialogue and to promote social inclusion through social dialogue tools and organised tripartite institutions.
The Project aims to:
1. Improve the environment for social dialogue between economic and social actors in the target countries of the southern Mediterranean
2. Strengthen civic and multi-stakeholder dialogue on the implementation of the Charter on Social Dialogue between Civil Society Organisations and regional and local authorities.
3. Establish a Community of Practice (CoP) including Economic and Social Councils, public authorities, NGOs, local authorities, media in the target countries and at regional level.
ACTIVITIES
• Studies on Economic and social situation in the new target countries
• National Social Dialogue Capacity building Programme
• Regional Seminars on economic and social issues (local authorities and professional associations)
• Regional Seminars on economic and social issues (youth and women)
• National Multipartite group meetings on the Charter’ action plan
• SOLiD promotional weeks
• SOLiD Charter Local Days
• EU Social Partners’ Exchange Visits
• Quadripartite Regional Conference on Social Dialogue
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