Programmes and projects

Activate!Youth in Montenegro

1 December 2019 - 30 November 2021

This two-year project will support Montenegro to bring youth under 29 years of age back to the labour market. Such ‘welfare-to-work’ programmes help Montenegro in meeting its commitments under the current and forthcoming Economic Reform Programmes (ERPs), whereby the EU has recommended to the country to ensure better coordination between employment activation measures and social benefit schemes.

Access to Justice in Labour Disputes through Mediation and Conciliation

1 October 2019 - 30 September 2022

The project aims to improve access to justice for all, including vulnerable groups of workers through peaceful settlement of labour disputes, collective bargaining and collective agreements, and the creation of informed policies on amicable settlements of labour disputes.

Measurement, awareness-raising and policy engagement project to accelerate action against child labour and forced labour in Serbia

17 June 2019 - 17 December 2020

The project aims to build and apply the critical knowledge needed to inform policy choices to combat child labour and forced labour, and to support measures to address these challenges in key countries (including Serbia). In support of this effort, the project develops knowledge, advocacy, capacity-building and global action necessary to eradicate child labour and forced labour.

Improving labour market governance through effective social dialogue over labour reforms in Montenegro

19 February 2019 - 19 January 2021

The project will aim at improving the effectiveness of tripartite social dialogue in Montenegro. It will strengthen the capacities of actors and institutions of social dialogue, especially that of trade unions and the Social Council to play a more effective role in labour market governance.

Young people learn about rights at work

14 January 2019 - 31 May 2020

The idea of the project is to use gamification of the Rights@Work instruction materials in schools and other contexts to raise young people's awareness of their rights at work. Areas to be covered include important guidance on how to avoid the traps of informal economy, understand their rights and obligations at work, know where they can obtain support and increase their participation in the governance of the labour market.
“More and Better Jobs for Women Programme” – PHASE II

1 January 2019 - 30 December 2022
Strengthening social dialogue in North Macedonia

1 January 2019 - 30 June 2021

The project aims at improving social dialogue as a means to create more and better jobs in North Macedonia. It will support the participation of social dialogue institutions in policy making at national and local levels and foster the practice of regular consultations through the national and local economic and social councils. It will create conditions for the social partners so that they are better equipped to provide quality policy advice and deliver demand-driven services.

Improved national normative framework to protect wages in Ukraine

14 December 2018 - 31 December 2020

The overall objective of the project is to protect wages by improving the national normative framework through social dialogue. It is expected that by the end of the intervention, tripartite constituents would have agreed on the measures to address the issues of wages (wage arrears, minimum wage and equal pay) and started their implementation.
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Promoting Decent Work For Syrians Under Temporary Protection and Turkish Citizens

6 December 2018 - 31 December 2022

Promoting Inclusive Labour Market Solutions in the Western Balkans

17 November 2018 - 31 May 2021

The overall objective of the project is to make national and local labour markets more inclusive. The project seeks to ensure that labour market institutions at the national and local levels have improved capacities to design and implement, in partnership with the private sector and the civil society, inclusive policies and programmes for individuals at risk of social and labour market exclusion.

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