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26 March, 2010The Africa Regional Office of the IMF would like to welcome Kettie Tembo, International Development Project Coordinator for UNITE, the largest UK trade union. Kettie will be working out of the regional office implementing the capacity building project for trade unions in Southern Africa.
UNITE, with support from DFID, is implementing a three year capacity building project for trade unions in Malawi, Zambia and Swaziland. The project which is running until September 2011 aims at building the capacity of trade unions in the project countries with the ultimate objective of promoting equality and responding to HIV and AIDS in the workplace
One of the strategies adopted is to build a campaign around organising and recruitment of workers. Recently, from 15th to 23rd February 2010, UNITE organised three regional training workshops for Malawi Congress of Trade Unions' affiliates with a focus on imparting essential skills for trade union capacity building. In total 81 organisers were trained. The idea is that the trained organisers will organise and recruit members as well as train other organisers as such building a strong membership base. Similar workshops were already implemented in Swaziland in November 2009 and in March 2010, similar workshops will be held in Zambia.
Kettie is eager to work with IMF affiliates and unions encouraged to take advantage of the expertise that Kettie brings to the region, especially in the area of HIV/AIDS. Request for her assistance can be sent to [email protected]