The African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa) organized from 15 to 16 October at the Grand Hotel Mensvic a forum on the implementation of the recommendations of the International Labour Conference on Social protection floors.

This forum brings together 70 delegates from several African countries and will allow Union leaders to revisit the recommendation and to develop a regional plan of campaign for the domestication at national level of the recommendation 202 of the ILO on social protection.

In addition to the opening ceremony, this first day was enriched with several presentations. The first was presented by two researchers of the African Labor Research Network who gave the participants an overview of social protection in Africa. They put particular emphasis on the role of trade unions in achieving an effective social floor in Africa.

A panel was organized on national experiences. The countries in focus were: Benin, Algeria, Togo, Senegal and Chad.

In the afternoon, participants followed a communication of an ILO expert on the financing of the social protection floor in Africa.

This was followed by a communication on elements of a strategy for the implementation of a social protection floor in Africa.

Work continues tomorrow.