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Combating Labour Insecurity in Egypt
Do "NGOs" have a Significant Role to Play?
S. Eliesh, November 2004 This paper covers in brief the national NGOs Centre for Population and Development (NCPD) initiatives and findings during the year 2001, within its NGOs programme for sustainable development. These initiatives aim to create a new equation for combating labour insecurity in the context of promoting "decent work" as defined by the ILO. This new equation means the strengthening of social dialogue between NGOs, the traditional ILO's tripartite constituents (government, employers and workers representatives "unions"), and other civil society players. It also means mobilizing more societal resources (e.g. philanthropy, volunteering), to improve all forms of labour security as stipulated by the ILO Socio-Economic Security Programme. This new equation would also provide opportunities for collective representation of various groups (e.g. youth unemployed, elderly, care workers, farmers, household women, informal workers, marginalized peoples), who are not generally covered by the unions which only represent the interests of those who have a steady job, in most cases, workers in the formal sector who do not exceed more than 25 per cent of the total working force. This last objective will set the stage for giving these groups - for the first time - an effective voice in the on-going debate around the development of a new unified labour law. Click here for full document in PDF |
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Updated by LD. Approved by GS. Last update: 14 December 2004.