Description
SOLiD-South Mediterranean Social Dialogue is a 42-month programme with a budget of 3.333.249 €, funded up to 90% by the European Union. It is coordinated by a consortium of 4 partners: The International Trade Union Organization (ITUC), The Arab Trade Union Organization (ATUC), The Union of Mediterranean Confederations of Enterprises (BUSINESSMED-UMCE), The Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND).
The SOLiD project is the result of long-term EU support for social dialogue in the Mediterranean region; it strengthens economic and social councils and gradually opens up dialogue to civil society organisations.
The SOLiD pilot project, implemented in three countries (Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia), has integrated civil society as a full partner in the project, alongside and at the same level as employers' and workers' organisations, and has contributed to the development of the Charter to promote Social Dialogue in the Southern Mediterranean countries.
The SOLiD II project aims to build the capacity of social actors (employers' organisations and their counterparts, workers' trade union organisations) in Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia to promote institutionalised, strengthened, dynamic and inclusive social dialogue.
About SOLiD II
The SOLiD Project is the result of a long-term support of the EU to Social Dialogue in the region, reinforcing economic and social councils and gradually opening up the dialogue to civil society organisations.
The SOLiD Pilot project, implemented in three countries (Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia) integrated civil society as a full partner in the project along with, and at the same level, as employers’ and workers’ organisations and resulted in the adoption of a Charter to promote Social Dialogue in the region and help achieve 12 of the Millennium Development Goals.
The overall goal of the SOLiD II project is to support the efforts of the beneficiary parties in order to build an inclusive and structured Social Dialogue in the Southern Mediterranean neighbourhood.
The implementing consortium will work on translating the outputs of the SOLiD charter for the promotion of Social Dialogue into concrete national action plans for the beneficiary countries of the first phase of the project and with the expansion to three new countries, Algeria, Lebanon and Palestine.
The 2nd phase of the SOLiD programme covers two separate components:
Component one aims at promoting multipartite Social Dialogue in Southern Mediterranean Countries and the second component consists in supporting the progressive formalization of the informal economy.