FIM

The nation­al capac­i­ty empow­er­ing work­shop organ­ised by FIM with the back­ing of LO-​TCO (16−18 September 2014) pro­vid­ed the back­drop for the SIMCCAP union to show its dri­ve. Deborah Cheyne (FIM Vice-​President and President of Brazilian union SINDMUSI) and Gabriela Supelano Londoño (region­al group coor­di­na­tor) accom­pa­nied the FIM General Secretary.

FIM’s pre­vi­ous region­al project in Latin America (2006−2007) high­light­ed social dia­logue, good gov­er­nance and finan­cial trans­paren­cy. Eight years lat­er, SIMCCAP is dis­play­ing exem­plary results on all these scores. Under the lead­er­ship of its pres­i­dent Enrique Cabrera, this suc­cess enables it to engage on a new work­site ded­i­cat­ed to the fol­low­ing priorities:
 — seek­ing to estab­lish enhanced gen­der equal­i­ty, both at union lev­el and that of improv­ing women’s sta­tus, their role and image as artists and union members;
 — devel­op­ing union com­mu­ni­ca­tion tools, with regard to mem­bers (in order to guar­an­tee their access to infor­ma­tion and improve par­tic­i­pa­tion in the organisation’s demo­c­ra­t­ic life) and with regard to the pub­lic (lob­by­ing and enhanc­ing the union’s role);
 — height­en­ing knowl­edge in the fields of copy­right, relat­ed rights and col­lec­tive management.

The Lima work­shop received numer­ous insti­tu­tion­al vis­i­tors – in par­tic­u­lar, Congressman Mr Yonhy Lescano Ancieta. It also pro­vid­ed an oppor­tu­ni­ty to cel­e­brate Peruvian music dur­ing a con­cert fea­tur­ing singer Miryam Quiñones who, in par­tic­u­lar, paid trib­ute to songwriter-​composer-​performer “Kiri” Escobar, also a SIMCCAP member.