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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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
KEY OUTPUTS • An informative web-site with good dissemination of labour information • A database on the trade union membership
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.
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
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
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
Inputs • Website
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
Inputs • Database (Online)
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
Monitoring • Timeframe
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