Title National capacity-building initiatives for social partners: Experiences in five EU Member States /
Authors Blažienė, Inga ; Aumayr-Pintar, Christine
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Is Part of European observatory of workin live - Eur WORK.. Dublinas : European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. 2017, p. 1-10
Keywords [eng] capacity-building initiatives ; Social partners ; labour market
Abstract [eng] Capacity-building for social partners at all levels has recently received greater policy attention at EU level in the context of the relaunch of social dialogue announced in 2015, the declaration of the social partner in early 2016, and the successive declarations on social dialogue. The authors of this article considered that this was a good reason to review recent experiences of capacity-building measures in some Member States where social dialogue traditions are more recently established and structures often characterised as comparatively weak. Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Latvia and Lithuania have all implemented, for the first time, some form of capacity-building initiative through their country’s 'Operational Programme for EU Structural Funds investments between 2007 and 2015'. Only in Lithuania had there previously been a nationally funded programme that targeted this issue. In all of the analysed countries, social partners have been involved in the process of devising capacity-building programmes to a greater or lesser extent and have participated in planning or monitoring activities. In most countries, funding for social dialogue was awarded through tendering procedures, while in Bulgaria six nationally representative social partners’ organisations received strategic (targeted) support. Although the main industrial relations indicators differ widely between the five countries, many of initiatives put place had much in common. In most of the countries, training activities were set up alongside initiatives to strengthen bipartite social dialogue at regional and/or sectoral levels.
Published Dublinas : European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
Type Journal article
Language English
Publication date 2017