Enhancing food security in developing countries is one of the new overarching policy aims of Dutch development cooperation. This position links up with current United Nations policies. Their joint concern is prompted by the fear that the food crisis will be worsening over the coming decades. Already today close to 1 billion people worldwide suffer from starvation, and the trend of increasing food prices will lead to more hunger and poverty.

This combination of national and international priorities led the WageIndicator Foundation to design the Living Wage project. Since income security in households has everything to do with food security, WageIndicator definitely has a contribution to make here. It specializes in collecting and making accessible information on minimum wages, collective agreements, current wages, labour law, debates, and compliance sessions.

Living Wage addresses income and food security in 9 countries of East Africa: Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Egypt. Read more...

This 3-year project, started in July 2012, aims to promote the payment of Decent Wages in Western Africa and in Madagascar. This CNV-funded project is very much in line with earlier projects set up in cooperation with the Dutch Christian Trade Union Confederation, i.e. Decent Wages Central America and Asia. It increases the outreach of this approach to include the West African French speaking countries Benin, Guinea, Niger, Senegal, Togo and includes Madagascar as well. In addition it introduces a focus on the collection, exchange and dissemination of collective agreements as examples of best practices for possible implementation elsewhere. Read more.

WEBDATANET is a unique multidisciplinary European network bringing together leading web-based data collection experts, (web) survey methodologists, psychologists, sociologists, linguists, economists, media researchers, Internet scientists and public opinion researchers from 22 European Member States.
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This is a 4 year project funded by the EU flow fund which began in January 2012. LABOUR RIGHTS FOR WOMEN aims to contribute to overarching policy aim of contributing to structural poverty reduction by improving gender equality and the empowerment of women. Within this aim, LABOUR RIGHTS FOR WOMEN will promote economic self-reliance, through giving women a say in employment in 11 countries: Egypt, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. Read more

This is a 3 year project which began in October 2011. It is funded by Dutch Trade Union Federation, FNV, the Dutch Employers’ Cooperation Programme, DECP. Promoting Social Dialogue is an objective in the Decent Work Agenda as elaborated by the ILO, and adopted by employers’ and employees’ organisations worldwide. Read more

This is a 1 year project which started from October 2011 and funded by CNV, Dutch Christian Confederation of Trade Unions. The binary focus is on minimum wages and compliance with Labour Law. The project proposal Decent Wage Latin America, falls within the scope of the Decent Work Agenda of the ILO. This agenda was proclaimed as the ILO contribution to achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, in particular cutting poverty down by 50 percent. Read more

Decent Wages Asia is a 3-year project, started in October 2010, co-funded by CNV, the Dutch Christian Confederation of Trade Unions. It aims at raising awareness, working people should know their minimum wages; fostering of compliance, trade unions and governments check and insist that legal minimum wages are paid; improvement of minimum wage setting as an instrument of economic policy. Decent wages Asia is rolled out in Cambodia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Read more

The WISUTIL project aims to clarify the impact of current developments in the utilities sector, notably market liberalisation, privatisation, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and technological change, on wages, working conditions, occupational structures and skills, and workers’ representation in the European Union. The project covers employment in both public and private companies in the electricity, gas, water and sewerage and waste sub-sectors. Read more

Wage Indicator publishes short stories of Bookkeeper, Bus driver, Secretary, Nurse from four countries receiving Dutch assistance, showing that Everybody Wants to Earn a Bit More and how accurate wage information can help bring this about. Read more

The project extends the already functioning DecentWorkCheck in South Africa with two national websites, in Zambia and Mozambique. Next to that, the topic Decent Work through partner organizations, trade unions in particular, will find its place on a variety of offline agendas. Read more

Development of the DecentWorkCheck. This online tool makes the pretty abstract ILO Conventions and national legal texts on decent work tangible for a wide audience. Read more

The project aims to compare wages and tariffs for 20 occupations in the Netherlands, in which both employees and self employed are active. It will result in an online tariff tool that gives applicants the answer to their question: am I better off as an employee, or as a self employed person in my trade? Read more

The overall objective of the DECISIONS FOR LIFE project is to raise awareness amongst young female workers about their employment opportunities and career possibilities, family building and the work-family balance. The lifetime decisions adolescent women face, determine not only their individual future, but also that of society: their choices are key to the demographic and workforce development of the nation.

DECISIONS FOR LIFE focuses on 14 developing countries, notably Brazil, India, Indonesia, the CIS countries Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and the southern African countries Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Project partners: ITUC, UNI, WageIndicator Foundation, University of Amsterdam/AIAS. Read more

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Extension of the current Latin American operation with trade union partners in Colombia, Chile - online survey, Paraguay and Guatemala - offline survey. TUSALATIN aims to collect in 2 years time in Chile 15,000, in Colombia 12,000, in Guatemala 2,000, and in Paraguay 3,000 completed questionnaires. Read more

The European Commission funds WIBAR-2. carried out by the University of Amsterdam/AIAS, ETUC, EMF, ETF, WageIndicator Foundation, and with Ruskin College - UK and WSI - DGB - Germany. Its focus is on conferences grouped into: 1 metal & electronics manufacturing; 2 retail; information technology; call centres and finance; 3 transport. The project includes introduction of the WageIndicator web-survey in France. Read more

10 European universities and research institutes bring together information on approx. 1500 - 2000 occupations. From care & welfare to technology & manufacturing, from service occupations to agriculture & fishing. They are described within the context of 7 countries. A so called FP 6 program. Read more

This project aims to increase the transparency of the labour market in a number of developing countries. Funded through the development aid programme of the Dutch Trade Union Confederation FNV, the WageIndicator operation now includes India, South Korea, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico. Read more

This project aims to measure the incidence of forms of flexible wages in the Netherlands, based on current and new questions in the Loonwijzer-survey. Read more

Its overall objective is better understanding of citizens' work life attitudes in 9 EU-member states. What is of the impact of a citizen's socio-economic framework on his/her attitudes, preferences, and perceptions with regard to this framework? A so called FP 6 program. Read more

The WIBAR project aims at supporting collective bargaining by means of detailed reports drawn from WageIndicator data in 8 WageIndicator countries. Read more

The project aims at diminishing the gender wage gap in six sectors. Research results on the size and determinants of the gender wage gap are debated between paid and lay union officials in these sectors and in the Dutch Confederation of Trade Unions - FNV about policy options. Read more