 Trade union participation in the PRSP processLawrence Egulu No 30166, Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes from The World Bank Abstract: The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) approach offers an opportunity for civil society organizations, to join governments in the development, and implementation of poverty reduction strategies. Trade unions have been encouraged to participate. This report notes that most unions have been invited to the discussions leading to formulation of the PRSPs, but none has been included in the drafting, implementation, monitoring, or evaluation. Based on findings from 23 PRSP countries, the study identifies a number of weaknesses, and shortcomings which have limited the effective participation of trade unions, mainly capacity issues, time constraints, and lack of structured participatory processes. Lack of consensus on contentious issues like privatization, pensions reforms, and labor code reform, have been worrisome to some unions. The paper calls for, among other things, more dialogue between the labor movement, and the International Financing Institutions (IFIs), strengthening trade unions, building union capacity, and more analytical work on labor market policies, and core labor standards. Keywords: Poverty Assessment; Health Economics&Finance; Environmental Economics&Policies; Labor Management and Relations; Politics and Government (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wbk:hdnspu:30166 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes from The World Bank 1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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