our work

Public World has been working with the Freshwater Action Network and the World Bank to build mutual understanding about how civil society organisations and the Bank can work together to improve urban water and sanitation services. Read our commentary about the lessons of experience here»

We have also been working with the International Transport Workers' Federation on a project called Developing Trade Union Policy and Alternatives to Neoliberal Transport Restructuring. It is exploring:

• What are the roles, objectives and methods of international financial and trade institutions in driving transport restructuring, and particularly privatisation and liberalisation?
• How are these policies affecting transport workers, and employment and social justice more generally?
• What alternative policies can transport unions develop, and what alliances can be forged in support of them?
• How can unions intervene in the process of restructuring and privatisation to protect jobs, employment rights and services?

Public World has also recently completed a scoping study into the prospects for dialogue between the World Bank and civil society organisations worldwide about urban water and sanitation. Find out more here»

We have also been working with the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM) in support of its work on contract and agency labour. For a report on the international legal framework covering precarious employment and supply chains, click here»