The contributions that IMPACT members make every year through the fund are a crucial element in PSI’s ability to work with affiliates around the world to defend trade union rights, to promote quality public services, to assist in organising new members, to strengthen collective bargaining and to campaign for gender equality.PSI has produced the following document which is a survey of achievements on IMPACT/PSI trade union development cooperation between 2008 and 2013. Although not all IMPACT-sponsored projects are covered in this publication due to space limitations, stories from every sub-region where projects where held during this period have been included. These stories highlight real change that have resulted not only in better outcomes for trade union members, but also for workers in public services in general and for societies as a whole.Read separate articles online:

• Unity of action drives social dialogue forwards in the Andes
• PSI affiliates in Turkey intensify campaigns against precarious work
• Recruitment and retractable syringes: SOLISCO-DRC rebuilds for its members and saves lives
• Gender equality and equity: Flowing into the heart of Brazil’s unions
• Making use of the ‘new animal from the forest’: East African unions strengthen social dialogue mechanisms
• A tale of two unions: How public sector unions helped to unleash a surge of democratic reform in Egypt
• From doubt to dedication: Young Czech and Slovakian trade unionists get active
• Unions in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa work for a new era of social dialogue on migration and health care systems
• Decent work for youth and nothing less! Southern Cone Youth Committees begin to mature