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Contents
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News,
Background, Purpose, Methodology,
Expected Impact
Highlights
UNI Asia &
Pacific Regional Office is the next venue for GDII. The seminar will be
held in Singapore from 5 to 9 December. The first
series of Regional
GDII seminars have been held in UNI Americas,
Panama, 3 to 7 October and in UNI Africa, Kitwe,
Zambia, 25-29 October
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Presentation GDDI, March 2007
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Background
UNI’s
core area of impact is the Trade Union Movement through its commitment to
develop ever stronger and interactive worker’s organisations while at
the same time ensuring its own institutional development, expansion and
success. In
pursuit of this aim, UNI’s Development and Regions’ Department (DRD)
has identified the need to strengthen regional structure and affiliate
capabilities through development work coordinated with and through
Regional Offices.
During
the last two years the DRD has increased the number of field activities
considerably and the need to measure and demonstrate their impact is seen
as critical for mobilisation of resources and effectiveness of its
relations with funding organisations and for future development.
In response to the above-mentioned needs this project was designed and
proposed to FES
and FNV who agreed to fund it for a period of two and a half years.
Purpose
The
Initiative’s overall objectives are to optimise UNI’s capacity to
provide development tools to workers’ organisations through UNI
structures and to strengthen their performance capability and that of
affiliates. The
underlying purpose is the overall institutional development of UNI and its
affiliates as one homogenous ever stronger and unified organisation.
A part of DRD’s Programme objectives aims to identify areas in need of
assistance and to support regional structures, sectors and human resources
in their efforts to develop workers’ organisations throughout the world.
To contribute to this objective, the DRD already produces
institutional and organisational development tools, and implements
programmes to strengthen regional structures in the areas of Strategic
Planning, Institutional and Organisational Development through practical
in-service training and participatory management processes.
To optimise these activities, the Department has recognised that it
needs to improve its own capacity to identify development needs without
bias and effectively prioritise them, and better plan institutional
development based on sound analysis of factual data, and ensure coherence
of action with needs and consistent results.
The Global Development Impact Initiative’s long-term objective is the
effective development of the whole of UNI.
This Project will lay the Initiative’s foundation stone, giving
focus, providing training in Institutional Development and examining
existing institutional capabilities amongst regions and affiliates.
Specifically,
the 2½ year project will establish UNI’s Institutional Development (ID)
Indicators, define UNI’s ID baseline data on members and regional
structures, develop a system to assess ID Indicator trends throughout the
organisation, assess strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats (SWOT) related to the DRD’s relations with
beneficiaries and partners and to the DRD’s products and services.
Methodology
Project
activities are based on participatory management principles and mutually
beneficial work between HO and Regional Staff.
These are centred around two sets of Institutional Development
seminars to take place at field level with regional and DRD’s staff,
facilitated by an external development consultant knowledgeable with
UNI’s work.
The methodology is based on close interactive collaboration and
work with Regional Offices through: systematic planning and execution;
careful (interactive) identification of ID Indicators applicable to
UNI’s operational environment; standardization and adoption of ID
Indicators; systematization of ID Indicators’ monitoring and evaluation
(M&E); increase in regional ID activities, and, standardization of
Strategic Planning, M&E and Regional Strategic Planning processes.
The DRD/GDII team has already mobilised the financial resources and
designed the process.
Further implementation depends on UNI’s adoption of currently
researched and standardised ID Indicators.
The first regional development seminars will complete the research
component to create the baseline data bank and allow interactive training
and work on institutional development, strategic planning and M&E.
The results of the first round of seminars will provide the data
required to develop the web-based M&E System.
The second round of regional workshops will consolidate processes
and test the first version of the M&E System to be put in place by an
external IT service now being screened.
The project will be completed with a period of improvement,
evaluation, and reporting.
Expected
Impact
The
DRD expects this Global Initiative’s project to have significant impact
by providing a sustainable improvement mechanism to UNI’s support to
affiliates to optimise operations, reduce operational costs, increase
UNI’s visibility, improve the coherence and efficiency of technical
co-operation and become a model for continuous improvement within the
international Trade Union Movement.
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