Employers’ and workers’ representatives of the garment and agro-industrial industries from various Arab States will meet to exchange experiences and share good practices of bipartite social dialogue in the region.

The four-day regional workshop, which will bring together social partners from Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia, is organised by the project “Promoting the Right to Freedom of Association and the Right to Collective Bargaining” funded by the Governments of Sweden and Norway in collaboration with the International Training Center, the training arm of the ILO. The purpose of the meeting is to enhance the development of sound bipartite relations and collective bargaining at all levels, by presenting the benefits of engaging in bipartite dialogue and better understanding processes of negotiations.

Specifically, the workshop aims to:

1. Identify mutual benefits of engaging in collective bargaining and bipartite social dialogue;
2. Analyse different modalities of collective bargaining and bipartite social dialogue;
3. Refer to key international labour standards as tools for promoting collective bargaining and bipartite social dialogue;
4. Demonstrate improved skills in creating consensus, in negotiating with a needs-based approach and in order to achieve mutual gains outcomes;
5. Use good practices from the MENA region to engage in effective collective bargaining and bipartite social dialogue.