This chain of partnership is important because it makes us stronger to create synergies in the exchange of experience and understanding of other people’s living and working conditions in a global economy. It provides the opportunity to improve education and training of union members, to develop union management and administration and to advance recruitment and organising strategies.
An important element in the partnership are our affiliates in donor countries which are involved in project work and contribute financially and with human resources to the success of projects.
UNI is a multi-sector global union federation. It is vital for UNI and its integration at a global, regional and national level that along with sector-specific projects there are also projects covering all affiliates representing a number of sectors in one country, as well as cross-sector regional projects. Where more than one affiliate is involved in one country the project work should be done through a joint liaison committee.
For the bulk of the development and regions' department projects UNI relies on finance from funding organisations. As a rule, direct relations with funding organisations are only maintained by the development and regions' department at Head Office. The principal funding organisations are:

• ACILS, American Center International Solidarity

• Fundacion Paz y Solidaridad, CC.OO, Spain

• ISCOD, Instituto Sindical de Cooperacion al Desarrollo, Spain

• FES, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Germany

• FNV Mondiaal, Netherlands

• ILO, International Labour Organisation

• LO/FTF, Danish Trade Union Council for International Development Cooperation, Denmark

• LO/TCO Secretariat of International Trade Union Development Cooperation, Sweden

• SASK, Trade Union Solidarity Centre of Finland

• DGDC/ISVI, Belgian Development Cooperation, Belgium

These partners do not only donate funds. They cooperate in various ways in methodology, as resource centres, in evaluating projects and in coordinating reporting and accounting. A group of donors, in co-operation with the Global Union Federations (GUF), has developed guidelines and a handbook for participatory and strategic project planning, based on the logical framework approach (LFA). Annual exchanges between funding organisations and GUFs assess how this works, discuss new project ideas and identify problems and challenges. Training courses for regional staff and project co-ordinators of GUFs are organised on LFA-based project planning.
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