Over the last 10 years, the ILO’s Regional Programme for the Promotion of Social Dialogue in French-speaking Africa (PRODIAF) has helped more than 20 African countries to promote social dialogue between governments, employers and workers and prevent social conflict. Putting particular emphasis on countries coming out of crisis, the programme enters its third phase this year. ILO Online spoke with Johanna Walgrave, acting director of the ILO’s Social Dialogue Sector.
Thus in November 2002, Senegal adopted the National Charter on Social Dialogue to upgrade the institutional framework for social dialogue between the State, private sector employers and workers. In Mali, the 2001 partnership agreement committed the government and the social partners to promote a “responsible social dialogue with the aim of encouraging social conditions conducive to economic development”. Other examples of functioning collaborative frameworks for social dialogue in French-speaking Africa include Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo. PRODIAF played a decisive role in these developments.
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