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Building resilience among
frontline workers’
organizations.
A collaborative fund to build resilience among frontline workers’ organizations leading efforts at the intersection of labor rights, democracy, and a just transition.
Democracy at Work Fund:
A Solidarity Fund for Workers on the Frontlines.
The Democracy at Work Fund pools support from multiple funders to deliver strategic investments in Asia, Africa, and Latin America aimed at building resilience and strengthening the capacity of workers’ organizations as part of a just, equitable and inclusive transition. The Fund prioritizes efforts led directly by workers in the informal economy, by women and migrant-led organizations, as well as efforts at the intersection of workers’ rights, gender justice, racial justice, and climate justice.
The total amount of the fund will be distributed in awards ranging
from $10,000 to $100,000 per applicant to support worker-led efforts in the following areas:
Bolstering capacity to ensure physical and digital security
Power-building work to improve working conditions and to defend core enabling rights to organize, associate and bargain collectively
Responding to legal threats and building legal security
Where are we now?
The recipient initiatives have already been selected!
Our selection process consisted of the evaluation from a steering committee composed by 12 academics and experts from different related sectors in the Americas, Africa, and Asia.
We received 315 proposals in total, and 19 were selected to receive awards.
Meet the projects!
Strengthening of rural workers in Piauí
Confederação Nacional de Trabalhadores Assalariados Rurais – CONTAR
Trade Union Tools to Improve Journalistic Practice
Cooperativa de Trabajo Asociado "Ladran Sancho"
Strengthening the Voice of Workers in Brazil’s Just Transition Processes
CUT Brazil/ITUC Just Transition Centre
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Union strengthening and security in challenging times for press workers in Argentina
Federación Internacional de Periodistas (FIP)
"Tracing Paths: Representation and Challenges of Wichí Rural Workers' Organizations in Santa Victoria Este, Salta"
Fundacion Urdir
Strengthening precarious worker organisations in South Africa, with a focus on best practices for mobilising migrant workers and domestic workers.
IZWI Domestic Workers Alliance
Scaling Worker Co-operative Ownership in West Java (Indonesia) Fashion Waste Recycling Sector
The New Factory
Organizational Capacity Building through Organizing and Recruitment of Members into trade union by: Uganda Nurses and Midwives Union.
Uganda Nurses & Midwives Union
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Strengthening the safety and self-protection capacities of banana workers.
Asociación de Trabajadores Agrícolas, Campesinos y Bananeros ASTAC
Strengthen Astradomes by promoting a political agenda of care that includes the experience, struggle and demands of paid domestic workers in Costa Rica.
Astradomes
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Do you need help?
For inquiries related to the application process or problems with the platform, please contact: Giselle Baiguera (democracyatworkfund@protonmail.com)
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