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Consultations and social dialogue with regional and local authorities helped gain their support and paved the way for the implementation of the project’s social dialogue strategy focused on fundamental principles and rights at work (collective bargaining and freedom of association) in the fisheries, livestock, and domestic work sectors. Regional and local authorities, which included government, civil society and community leaders such as Imams, were more important to the social dialogue strategy than national actors. It is necessary to institutionalize social dialogue at the national level by solving the problem of worker’s representativeness and putting into operation the national council for social dialogue.