The project on “Promoting Rights at Work in Myanmar” started in 2012 with funds from the US Department of State. Its overall objective is to promote the effective recognition and realization of the fundamental workers’ rights and social dialogue in Myanmar to support the country’s peaceful transition to democracy. The project’s strategy is structured around four immediate objectives:
• Increased knowledge of national labour laws, international labour standards and the roles of the tripartite constituents in labour relations by the Government, the employers, the workers and the general public.
• Establish a well-functioning, understood and efficient registration process for workers’ and employers’ organizations.
• Providing unions with the technical and institutional capacity to better represent their members and reach out to potential new members in the core and periphery areas of the country and in a variety of economic sectors.
• Institutionalizing meaningful and effective social dialogue among the Government, the employers’ and the workers’ organizations.
• Increased knowledge of national labour laws, international labour standards and the roles of the tripartite constituents in labour relations by the Government, the employers, the workers and the general public.
• Establish a well-functioning, understood and efficient registration process for workers’ and employers’ organizations.
• Providing unions with the technical and institutional capacity to better represent their members and reach out to potential new members in the core and periphery areas of the country and in a variety of economic sectors.
• Institutionalizing meaningful and effective social dialogue among the Government, the employers’ and the workers’ organizations.