2. PROJECT TITLE:STRENGTHENING THE SKILLS AND CAPACITY OF FFW ORGANIZERS IN THE FORMAL ECONOMY TENTATIVE DURATION:Six (6) Months STARTING DATE:January 2007 GEOGRAPHICAL:Nationwide PROJECT LANGUAGE:English / Filipino EXECUTING ORGANIZATION UNIT:Federation of Free Workers IMPLEMENTING UNIT:Philippine Social Institute PREPARATION DATE:23 March 2006 AUTHOR:Danilo A. Laserna

3. 1. BACKGROUND / PROBLEMS: FFW as trade union – social movement Workers in the informal economy is increasing – 65.13% in 1999 to 67.47% of the total workforce in 2003 Rules of the game in the informal economy, including certain rights and welfare of the workers, not only can be found in the Labour Code (1974) but also to other special laws, local ordinances, and regulations – “web of of labor standards” FFW organizers are not equipped with necessary skills to organize workers in the informal economy. Lacking, if not none at all, knowledge in basic issues and concerns in the informal economy

4. 2.TARGET GROUPS AND OTHER PARTIES Target Group Skills and Capacity Trainings for Fifty-Five (55) FFW organizers in the national level, full-time and volunteer-organizers. No special training of this type has been attempted before Barely have experience in the informal economy Implementors This will be implemented by the Philippine Social Institute (PSI), a training and education department of FFW) with the close collaboration of the Operations Department (organizing department) particularly on curriculum-building

5. Decision-makers It shall be supervised over-all by the FFW Executive Board, who generally approves the budgetary expenditures upon the recommendation of the National Treasurer. Financiers Forty Percent (40%) of the entire cost shall come from internal General fund and Sixty Percent (60%) shall come from the External fund, preferably from the International Labour Organization (ILO)

6. 3. Long-term Objectives This workplan will contribute in achieving the following: To increase membership from the informal economy and integrate them fully in the FFW structure; To strengthen the financial position of FFW by increasing the income from these members and legally represent them in any types of social dialogue and, possibly, come up with an agreement (joint undertaking, social contract, social pact, memorandum of agreement, memorandum of understanding, etc.), To conceptualize and develop training and education intended for the members.

7. 4. Immediate Objectives The target group will be able to: Explain the prevailing special laws, local ordinances, rules and regulations with regards to the rights and welfare of the workers in the informal economy when asked what are specific laws and even specific provisions that will directly states that certain rights and welfare; Communicate with confidence with the workers in the informal economy when directly interacting with them on the prevailing issues and concerns in this particular sector; Identify the basic issues and concerns prevailing in the informal economy as well as to offer best solutions for organizing.

8. 5. Key Outputs / Direct Results Fifty-five (55) organizers who have sufficient skills to organize workers in the informal economy, and New ideas, experiences and strategies on how to effectively organize the workers and how, where, and specific government agency to appropriately register their organization. 6. Activities Within six (6) months, the following activities shall be performed: Draft training curriculum jointly by specialists from Philippine Social Institute and Operations Department. If possible, seek assistance from consultant on the contents of the said curriculum; Submission and approval of budget proposal to conduct capacity and skills training for the organizers;

9. Arrangement of appropriate training venues and dates to conduct such trainings; Distribution of notices to the organizers of the particular training; Invitation of resource persons, Preparation of training materials and relevant references such as FFW Policy on Informal Economy, related laws, rules, regulations on the rights and welfare of the workers in the informal economy – audio-visual materials also included; Actual trainings tentatively to be held on 12-17 March 2007 in Manila for Luzon-based organizers and 19-24 March 2007 in Iloilo City for Visayas-Mindanao organizers;

10. Follow-up activities as stated in Point No. 10 - Monitoring / reporting / Evaluation Procedure 7. Main Inputs Manpower, training materials and references and financial resources are necessary to implement the said activities 8. Indicators of Achievement Initiate a contact with an organization operating in the informal economy within a month; Initiate a minimum of two (2) contacts for new members to be recruited within a month; Provide a minimum of two (2) reliable mapping data produced by each member of the target group within a month;

11. Successful counselling work on two (2) cases by each organizer to the members on their issues and concerns within six (6) months; Provide legal representation and process its grievances or problems as it may arise from time to time. 9. Management of Risk POTENTIAL RISKPOSSIBLE RESPONSES Not all organizers would be Some of them will be asked whether they interested to organize workersshould want to organize the informal in the informal economy. Mostworkers in full time basis. of them have organized traditional trade unions for their lifetime.Women organizers in the Women’s Perhaps they do not want to changeNetwork (women’s department) will also their working environmentbe tapped in this project. Same thing with volunteer-organizers, including from Young Free Workers (youth desk) will be asked if they want to change their working environment

12. Not one of target group not capableDespite of improbability rate, the of doing the taskmonitoring and evaluation would play vital role to check whether they can really capable of doing task. Such improbability would happen, the Chief of Operations Department will meet the target group and will determine what went wrong along the line. After making an analysis, the Chief then make some recommendations to the Executive Board will either draft an internal policy to direct the target group to improve their work OR provide a financial incentive for those target group who successfully organized IE workers and affiliated with FFW.

13. 10. Social Monitoring / Reporting / Evaluation weekly report Report and Recommendations monitoring coordination

14. 11. Preliminary Budget Proposal Local Currency US Dollars (PhP) 1.One Activity 100,000.001,825.00 2.Second Activity 135,000.00 2,599.00 Total 235,000.004,424.00