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The basics of the National School Nutrition Programme

The National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) aims to enhance learning capacity and access to education by providing nutritious meals to learners at schools in South Africa’s most impoverished communities.

5 months ago

Power Up! Women advocate for bodies, voices and resources

by admin collective action / gender equality / organise / Power Up! / precarious employment / voluntary food handlers / women workers / workers’ rights

Seeking to connect and support women in precarious work to have their jobs made visible, recognised, valued and remunerated.

5 months ago

How does the family and school community value the role of volunteer food handlers in meeting the immediate need of feeding school children?

by admin decent work / Power Up! / precarious employment / voluntary food handlers / women workers

Voluntary food handlers are aware that they are not valued for the work they do in the National School Nutrition Programme, in schools, and in the communities that they live in.

7 months ago

What will it take to create pathways to women’s economic autonomy, resilience and stability?

by admin collective action / gender equality / organise / Power Up! / precarious employment / voluntary food handlers / women workers / workers’ rights

It’s time to Power Up! We need to build women’s voice and leadership and strengthen women-led movements to shift power and advance the rights of all women.

7 months ago

The role of Volunteer Food Handlers in the National School Nutrition Programme

by admin collective action / gender equality / organise / Power Up! / precarious employment / voluntary food handlers / women workers / workers’ rights

Through discussing issues close to their hearts, volunteer food handlers will see and articulate the important role they have in the National School Nutrition Programme and the school community.

1 year ago

Trade Unions and Trade

by admin afCFTA / african trade and integration / collective bargaining support / free trade agreements / regional economic communities / trade policy / trade union solidarity

Working together to strengthen the capacity of the trade union movement in Africa to engage on matters relating to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).

2 years ago

Creating safe and inclusive trade unions and workplaces free of homophobia

by admin gender equality / homophobia / ILO Convention 190 / LGBTI workers rights

What will it take to build LGBT inclusive workplaces in South Africa? We support the efforts of trade unions to build inclusive and safe workplaces where LGBTI workers feel free to claim their rights.

4 years ago

Ending gender-based violence in the health sector

by admin collective impact initiative / gender action learning / gender based violence / gender equality / meadowlands clinic pilot project

We support the efforts of trade unions in the health sector to end gender-based violence in the health system.

4 years ago

Value chain analysis as a tool for renewing trade union bargaining and organising strategies

Value chains capacity building

by admin bargain / negotiate / organise / peer learning process / shop steward alliance support / South African multinational companies / transforming corporate governance

We supported trade unions in ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa to renew their bargaining and organising strategies for tackling inequality in global value chains.

4 years ago

decent standard measure for South Africa

Decent Standard of Living

by admin collective bargaining support / decent standard of living / decent standard of living index / living wage

What does a decent life look like? The Decent Standard of Living Project attempts to derive an understanding of what constitutes a broadly acceptable living level that should be used to reflect a basic living level in South Africa.

4 years ago

Working together with communities to end gender-based violence

by admin collective impact initiative / gender action learning / gender based violence / gender equality / Letsema

We support the struggle by activists to create zero percent Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in communities in South Africa.

4 years ago

strategies for ending violence in schools in Africa

Working with teacher unions to end school-related gender-based violence

by admin education sector / gender based violence / gender equality / peer learning process / school related gender based violence

What will it take to support education unions to end school-related gender-based violence? Labour Research Service supports the struggle by trade unions to end school-related gender-based violence in Africa.

4 years ago

Multinational Corporations Database

by admin MNC trends report / South African multinational companies / transforming corporate governance

The South African Multinational Corporations (MNC) Database holds unique financial, operational and governance information relating to South African multinational companies operating in Africa.

4 years ago

Shop Stewards Alliance Support

by admin bargain / organise / retail sector / shop steward alliance support / South African multinational companies

We support the capacity of UNI Global Union affiliates in Africa to monitor and influence the activities of South African multinational companies. Unions are increasingly working to ensure that MNCs comply with existing Global Framework Agreements and the Decent Work Agenda.

4 years ago