Sweden · Human rights and democracy

Union to Union

National non-governmental organisation. Based in: Sweden. Active at least since 2026. Main sector: human rights and democracy.

Union to Union is the Swedish union movement's joint international cooperation development organisation. Our work focuses on creating strong democratic trade unions and more decent jobs globally. As a secular, non-partisan, and non-profit organisation we gather the whole Swedish trade union movement into one organisation. Our role is to coordinate and support LO (Swedish Trade Union Confederation), TCO (Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees), Saco (Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations) and their affiliates in international trade union development cooperation. Our organisation was established in 1977 as LO-TCO Biståndsnämnd. Saco joined in 2015, and the name changed to Union to Union. Union to Union’s vision is a world in which trade union and other human rights in working life are respected, protected and ensured. This means giving all workers the opportunity to come together to improve their situation in the belief that acting as an organised group is more effective than acting alone. How we work Union to Union’s work is primarily geared towards building up the capacity of unions in low and middle-income countries for organising, negotiating, advocacy work and promoting gender equality and democracy. Our partners are usually Global Union Federations and trade unions. We perform our work via a wide-ranging network consisting of Union to Union and Swedish trade unions, which carry out the projects in cooperation with Global Union Federations. The focus is on strengthening local trade unions in development countries.

Registers: IATI (d-portal)

Active at least since

2026

Accounts

No accounts available from the sources we use.

Public funds from donor governments

Payments to the organisation reported by the aid agencies of 17 countries (USAID, FCDO, BMZ, Sida and others) in their own IATI data, converted to euros at the year's average rate. They include funds passed on to local partners. Not all donors name the recipient of their payments, so figures may be incomplete; EU funds are in their own section.

Projects published on IATI (most recent and largest)

Titles are shown as published by the organisation, in their original language. Spending = disbursements and expenditure reported on IATI, in US$.

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Official checks

Public register

Bolagsverket (Sweden) 802014-4294 — number declared on IATI; that register is not one of our sources of accounts

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Timeline

1. 2026-01-22 First publication on IATI

Identifiers

IATI (d-portal) · SE-ON 802014-4294