Uganda
Together with Canadian labour lawyer Peter Barnacle and a number of Canadian trade unions, ICTUR has started work on a four-year capacity building project with Ugandan trade union centre NOTU and its affiliates.

In the first phase of the project, which is now being completed, a computer network and broadband internet access has been installed in the NOTU offices to improve the unions communications capacity. Next is is a strategic planning conference organised by NOTU and its affiliate unions that will take place in early August 2009. The affiliates will look at practical measures that can be taken in organising, recruitment and education of new union members as well as promote international partnerships to assist in carrying out such activities in the remaining years of the project. The strategic planning conference will be followed by paralegal training for affiliate representatives scheduled for March of 2010 and the funding of NOTU research projects. In a parallel initiative, the Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers will assist in funding the work of Ugandan labour lawyers lobbying the government to set up the promised Industrial Court and to fund the national workplace inspection system.

To date the project has been supported financially by Canadian unions CUPE Global Justice Fund; CAW Social Justice Fund; and NUPGE.