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Capacity Building of National Centre and Affiliates Via Information Technology

Capacity Building of National Centre and Affiliates Via Information Technology. Capacity Building of National Centre and Affiliates Via Information Technology. Tentative Duration 6 months to 1 year Starting Date mid September 2002 Project Language English Preparation Date 19 August 2002

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Capacity Building of National Centre and Affiliates Via Information Technology

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  1. Capacity Building of National Centre and Affiliates Via Information Technology

  2. Capacity Building of National Centre and Affiliates Via Information Technology Tentative Duration 6 months to 1 year Starting Date mid September 2002 Project Language English Preparation Date 19 August 2002 Author Shabina Khan (Fiji)

  3. Background

  4. Background • Fiji Trades Union Congress only National Centre in Fiji • FTUC has no union membership database • Difficult to get accurate information: • on unionisation rate • union membership

  5. Background • Time consuming and difficult to disseminate union information on one to one basis (tertiary students, researchers, union members, consultants, etc) • FTUC becoming aware of IT potentials (long term project on capacity building) • Create a website and a database to disseminate information easily

  6. Target Groups • FTUC National Centre Office Bearers (General Purpose Committee - GPC) • FTUC Staff • FTUC’s 36 Trade Union Affiliates and their members • The general public and organisations

  7. Development Objectives

  8. Development Objectives • This workplan will contribute to: • Enhancing and empowering better communication • Enabling FTUC to improve and get more precise data on union membership percentage breakdown by sector/industry, gender & age • Providing facts and figures on trade union research and press releases • Using I.T. (website & database) tools for organising & recruiting membership • Improving better relations with union members

  9. Immediate Objective 1 • To redesign and redevelop the FTUC web pages for the National Centre and do website updates • informative , regular updates • create more web pages (currently 10 web pages) such as, “Why join Unions”, opinion box, worker rights and redesign FTUC homepage, etc

  10. Immediate Objective 2 • To create a trade union membership database • N.C. to have a computerised union membership database and format extended to affiliated unions with computers

  11. Indicators of Achievement

  12. Indicators of Achievement • Web-site : • Creation of additional web pages (currently 10 web pages) • Get the number of visitors visiting the site weekly for comparison • Have an opinion box in the web page • Train 1 National Centre staff on updating Website

  13. Indicators of Achievement • Database • Keep a record of database accesses via either the electronic (web site) or off-line • Increase union membership • Number of email enquiries received • Train at least 5 members or trade union staff on database • Target at least the major unions with computers i.e. FPSA, FTU, FB&FSEU to have database and train them

  14. KEY OUTPUTS

  15. KEY OUTPUTS • An informative web-site with good dissemination of labour information • A database on the trade union membership

  16. Activities • Websites • Form a work-group to re-design the web-sites • The work group will propose a new design and content • Seek approval from the General Purpose Committee (FTUC Office Bearers) • Redesign the current FTUC web-pages • Train National Centre staff to update the web pages • Collect information daily for updating newsroom web page from daily newspapers and other union sources.

  17. Activities • Website • Send fortnightly or weekly reminders to Affiliates to send any suggestion or inputs for the web-site • Liase with Women and Youth Committee Secretaries and President on articles and web materials to be upload regularly • Do email and press releases on the new FTUC website • Train a National Centre staff on updating web-sites

  18. Activities • Database • Form a work-group to design a database • Create a simple database • Seek approval from the FTUC General Purpose Committee • Assist in creating databases for individual unions who have access to computer and train them where possible • Identify key individuals in each affiliates to gather and input data in the database

  19. Activities • Database • Background research and liasing • Final approval by the FTUC’s General Purpose Committee to upload on the web • Inform the members of the new database in the FTUC newsletter and letters to their affiliates • Liase constantly with the key individuals (in each affiliates) in updating the databases and seek assistance from them to monitor the number of users

  20. Inputs • Website

  21. Inputs • WebSite • Resources available- computer, an internet access, host for the web-site, separate telephone for internet, maintenance of web site, scanner • Resources sought- an assistant for web-site maintenance, liasing officers from each affiliates/Youth Committee/Women’s Committee for information for web-site updates

  22. Inputs • Database (Online)

  23. Inputs • Database (Online) • Resources available- computer, an internet access, separate telephone for internet, • Resources sought - host and maintenance of database sites (seek arrangements), personnel in each affiliates to input data and monitor the number of users

  24. Monitoring

  25. Monitoring • Timeframe

  26. Time Frame

  27. Monitoring • Timeframe • Activity Monitored by FTUC Publicity/Education Officer & W/Y officer • Workgroup Committee (Monthly Meetings) • GPC Committee • 3 months evaluation report and then after 6months final evaluation report when whole project completed

  28. PRELIMINARY BUDGET ESTIMATE

  29. THE END

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