The Africa Trade Union Development Network (ATUDN) steering committee organised in Abuja, Nigeria from the 20th to the 21st of June 2017, their annual meeting to evaluate, plan and coordinate the work of the network.
This meeting was to help members take stock of the work done this far, plan and coordinate the future work of the network and to proffer an opportunity for orienting all the members to the SDGs monitoring tool/template that has been developed by the TUDCN for the trade unions.
The meeting brought together about 16 participants consisting largely of ATUDN members, ITUC-Africa programme staff and sub-regional trade union representatives.
During 2 days, the partcipants at this meeting had reported and evaluated the implemented 2017-18 Africa Trade Union Development Network activities. The participants also adopted the work plan and map out implementation responsibilities and were oriented on the use of the TUDCN monitoring template (country reports) for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to prepare for the ATUDN’s participation at the Africa-EU summit.
At the end of the meeting some recommendations were made. Amond them we can note essentially
ATUDN is an initiative of ITUC-Africa that brings together affiliated trade union organisations, the solidarity support organisations (SSO) and the representatives of the ITUC sub-regional organisations. The network’s objective is to bring the trade union perspective into the development policy debates at global, regional, sub-regional and national level and improve the coordination and effectiveness of trade union development cooperation activities.
