Description The project intends to promote a sustainable socio-economic model that allows, through trainings and educational programs addressing circular economy and fostering recycling-based culture, a reduction and mitigation of environmental impacts and an increase in the resources available in the target areas. These resources will be reinvested in the school system of the Municipality of Thiès and the Municipality of Ngaparou, in Senegal, leading to a significant improvement in the (...)
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École Durable in Thiès and Ngaparou
8 de diciembre de 2021, por Marion Levillain -
Juegoteca comunitaria Lekotek
3 de diciembre de 2021, por Marion LevillainDescription The project intends to develop a sharing space that promotes social inclusion of children, adults and elderly people from the district of Barracas, Parque Patricios, La Boca, Constitución of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and the neighbouring districts of the Department of Avellaneda. The "juegoteca comunitaria", a renovated and expanded version of the Lekotek playroom already operating in Buenos Aires, will allow the development of individual skills using the game-based (...)
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Women’s Councils: models, skills and voice for a just society in Eritrea
2 de diciembre de 2021, por Marion LevillainDescription The project promotes the active participation and the social, economic and cultural inclusion of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable women living in urban and semi-urban areas of Asmara and Massawa through the establishment of local "councils", the purposes of which are to bolster activities pursuing the exchange and enhancement of women’s skills, roles and models.
Objectives • Boosting the principles of non-discrimination, gender equality and women’s empowerment by promoting (...) -
Promoting the economic and social empowerment of vulnerable women in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt
1ro de diciembre de 2021, por Marion LevillainDescription The project aims to contribute to the improvement of living conditions for Syrian refugee women and girls, and for women and girls at risk of social marginality and fragility in the host communities in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. To this end, the recipients are provided, by means of specialized training activities, with the necessary resources to embark on a path of empowerment and socio-economic emancipation, through support and creation of real job opportunities, income (...)
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OpenFactory – Supporting innovation platforms and generating socioeconomic and open access opportunities for enterprise, research and innovators’ ecosystem in Egypt
30 de noviembre de 2021, por Marion LevillainDescription The project aims at creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem promoting innovative-based processes and products within the Egyptian manufacturing sector and drives it towards more sustainable business models, production processes and governance systems. The activities will improve in particular the production systems of the textile and leather sectors by innovating their value chain, facilitating the introduction of innovative and sustainable business solutions and steering the (...)
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Dialogue, training, bargaining: work as an instrument of peace
30 de noviembre de 2021, por Marion LevillainDescription The project intends to create a favourable environment for industrial relations and social dialogue, in order to promote decent and inclusive work in urban and metropolitan areas in Asmara and Massawa. The aim is to strengthen the involvement of the most vulnerable groups of the population in local socio-economic development processes supporting, through professional training pathways, the integration in the labour market of those who are unemployed or employed in the informal (...)
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Burma: Strengthening Trade union Capacity and Worker Voice
25 de agosto de 2021, por Marion LevillainProject description
To strengthen their structural and operational capacity to defend worker rights, the Center will provide training, mentoring, and research support to workplace-level unions and union upper structures in Burma. The Center will identify and cultivate key leaders, staff, and activists within union federation structures, labor NGOs, and workplace-level unions to become effective trainers, mentors, and organizers. The Center will also develop model structures and language for (...) -
Gulf Region (Kuwait & Bahrain): New Strategies for Building Inclusive Civic Space
25 de agosto de 2021, por Marion LevillainProject description
To promote the expansion of civic space in the Gulf region, the Center will develop the capacity of workers in Kuwait and Bahrain, particularly women and migrants, to advocate for their priorities within their union federations, and will support these organizations to build more responsive and inclusive advocacy strategies in the post-COVID era capable of representing a broad range of workers and defending their fundamental rights.
Objective 1: To strengthen the (...) -
Thailand Labor Program 2021
25 de agosto de 2021, por Marion LevillainProject description
To further promote international labor standards and protections in Thailand, the Center will leverage global trade union networks and international mechanisms including global framework agreements (GFAs), and 1) support and strengthen efforts by its partners to organize and bargain collectively, and protect themselves from anti-union and other retaliatory measures; and 2) support and intensify efforts by migrant workers to organize, build their capacity to access social (...) -
Iraq: United Workers Voices for Change
25 de agosto de 2021, por Marion LevillainDescription of the project
To enable unions to provide a platform for workers in Iraq to promote their interests and to increase understanding of the 2015 labor law among workers and lawyers to improve enforcement, the Center will support an online training platform for young workers; improve Iraqi unions’ use of social media; support an online portal for reporting legal violations; educate law students on the 2015 labor law; and enable unions to engage publicly on political party social and (...)