TUC Strategic Framework Partnership Arrangement: Second Year Report

TUC Strategic Framework Partnership Arrangement: Second Year Report

This progress report covers the key achievements of the TUC's Strategic Framework Partnership Arrangement (SFPA) during its second year, from July 2007 to June 2008. The three-year £756,000 DFID-funded Arrangement (2006-2009) aims put international development at the heart of trade union work.

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The second year, at a glance...

Providing advice to two unions to develop their proposals to DFID's Development Awareness Fund (DAF) in 2007 and two unions' proposals to DFID's Civil Society Challenge Fund (CSCF) in 2008. Prospect were successful in their Development Awareness Fund bid,

Training 26 trade union officers on two, four-day intensive project design courses, giving them the skills to develop stronger bids for DFID's competitive funding schemes,

Advising and funding seven unions running international development activities under the SFPA's International Development Learning Fund (IDLF). Three of these unions began their activities in the second year,

Approving five mini-grants helping TUC regions and unions develop their strategies including building links with sister unions from Malawi, Guyana, Zimbabwe and India, and in one case, running a conference on international development,

Piloting 'Going Global', an online course on international development and trade unions,

Running 'Introduction to international development', a two-day training course for TUC tutors and union officers,

Holding 'Building partnerships with unions in the south', an experience-sharing seminar, and publishing a brief guide based on contributions,

Producing 'Responding to DFID country assistance plans', a guide for southern trade unionists engaging with their local DFID country office,

Increasing the readership of the TUC's monthly International Development Matters newsletter and participation at the TUC's International Development Group, and

Holding three DFID/TUC trade union forums where, on average, 10 affiliate unions and TUC staff meet discussed ten topics with DFID ministers and civil servants.