Report on a Mid-Term Review of the Vida Viva Project

David Sogge

David Sogge (in collaboration with Deisimer Gorczevski)

September 2006

A report on an independent mid-term review of TIE-Netherland’s Vida Viva Project in Brazil.

Powerful and poorly-controlled currents of change are putting lives of working people in Brazil under increasing pressure. Tightening labour markets and the re-design of work are generating more precarity, stress and illness. At the same time, many laws and other institutions that are supposed to protect workers, traditions of resistance by organised labour and other social movements, are generating opportunities to be seized and allies to be mobilised. Stronger trade unionism responsive to such challenges and opportunities -- and to rank-and-file workers themselves –- is a precondition for decisive changes for the better.

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David Sogge

Independent Consultant

Transnational Institute Board member, David works as an independent advisor for grant-making agencies, specialising in civil society. Research and other professional activities in Africa provided a basis for books and articles on Angola and Mozambique and many unpublished reports on South Africa. More recently, evaluative research assignments have taken him to Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union. Trained at Harvard, David earned his graduate degrees from Princeton and the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague.