Malawi Congress of Trade Union
MCTU
- Malawi Congress Of Trade Unions, Lilongwe, Malawi
(010)
The Malawi Congress of Trade Unions was registered in 1995 as a membership labour movement organisation with the aim of promoting, uniting and strengthening human rights standards and social welfare of workers at the work place. MCTU has a membership of seventeen affiliates. The organisation works with industries, plantations and Employers Consultative Association of Malawi.
The objective of MCTU is to organise and build effective trade unions based on the democratic organisation of workers in their work places. MCTU also organises and secures support in order to prevent social and economic exploitation of the workers. MCTU conducts civic education, social and communal welfare activities in order to safeguard and advance the economic security and social welfare of all people of the country in general and workers in particular. The ultimate beneficiaries of the programmes offered by MCTU are registered paid up affiliate members
Hivos is motivated to support the organisation in view of the fact that their programmes are aimed at promoting, uniting and strengthening human rights standards and the social welfare of workers.
- Malawi Congress Of Trade Unions, Lilongwe, Malawi
(010)
The Malawi Congress of Trade Unions was registered in 1995 as a membership labour movement organisation with the aim of promoting, uniting and strengthening human rights standards and social welfare of workers at the work place. MCTU has a membership of seventeen affiliates. The organisation works with industries, plantations and Employers Consultative Association of Malawi.
The objective of MCTU is to organise and build effective trade unions based on the democratic organisation of workers in their work places. MCTU also organises and secures support in order to prevent social and economic exploitation of the workers. MCTU conducts civic education, social and communal welfare activities in order to safeguard and advance the economic security and social welfare of all people of the country in general and workers in particular. The ultimate beneficiaries of the programmes offered by MCTU are registered paid up affiliate members
Hivos is motivated to support the organisation in view of the fact that their programmes are aimed at promoting, uniting and strengthening human rights standards and the social welfare of workers.
Type organisatie |
Membership organisation |
Werkveld |
Human Rights & Democratisation |
Land |
Malawi |
Opgericht |
1995 |
Hivos partner sinds |
2003 |
Website |
http://www.mctumw.com |
Capacity Building Programme in Human Rights and Good Governance Monitoring
| DAC-sectors: | Human rights |
|---|---|
| Location: | Malawi |
| Beneficiary: | |
| activity | demand for government accountability |
| Direct outreach | 99 - Intermediary level |
| Indirect outreach | 200 - Policy level/ institutional |
| activity | Human Rights & Good Governance |
| Direct outreach | 195 - Intermediary level |
| Indirect outreach | 300 - Beneficiaries: poor and/or marginalised women and men |
| Contract total: | 50.000 |
| Contractperiod: | 01-01-2010 until 31-12-2010 |
| Description: | |
|---|---|
| The Hivos grant will go towards supporting MCTU to strengthen its capacity to deal with Human rights and governance issues both within the labour union and at national level. Hivos support to MCTU is motivated by the fact that the human rights and good governance situation in Malawi is deteriorating since the Presidential and Parliamentary elections that took place in May 2009. The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won with a landslide victory. The party has over 140 members of parliament out of the 193 members with up to 30 MP's being independent members. Thus the opposition's role of providing checks and balances to the government has been severely weakened. On the other hand, MCTU's work has gradually evolved from mere worker representation to being a watchdog of human rights and good governance in Malawi. MCTU is a vibrant union with over 200 000 members and with a long history of protecting human rights in general and workers rights in particular. MCTU's roles and actions include influencing government policies through lobbying legislators and timely engagements with the relevant government ministries and departments particularly the Ministry of Labour. MCTU is also involved in the Hivos supported Stop Child Labour Campaign through the Coalition Against Child Labour in Malawi (CACLAM). |
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