Capacity building

In order to develop constituencies' capacity to engage in Nedlac, and to take part in policy formulation, Nedlac devotes a fairly substantial amount of its budget to supporting constituency structures.

The National Labour Secretariat co-ordinates the three labour federations in Nedlac. The funds for the staffing and operations of the office comes out of the labour capacity fund allocated from Nedlac's budget. Likewise, the Community Constituency office co-ordinates the four community organisations in Nedlac, and is funded from the community capacity fund. Business also receives a grant from Nedlac to assist them in co-ordinating their inputs into the Nedlac policy processes

As part of its capacity building programme for constituencies Nedlac jointly hosted a 3-day workshop with COSATU Western Cape. The workshop was aimed examining and proposing an appropriate institutional arrangement that would promote social dialogue in the Western Cape province. It was attended by over 60 senior trade unionists from the province.

Nedlac intends to carry out capacity building programmes on economic issues for the labour constituency.