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EU-MPTF Spotlight Initiative ILO-UNW JP "Safe and Fair: Realizing women migrant workers' right and opportunities in the ASEAN region" - Final evaluation

eval_number:

2829

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2829

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Migration

category:

Conditions of work & equality

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comments:

Future ending violence against women (EVAW) and labour migration programmes

challenges:

While some labour migration sessions touched upon social norms change, the SAF programme did not integrate this as a consistent strategy to end violence against women across all of its community information sessions on safe labour migration. Since this was successful, there is room to more systematically integrate this into future EVAW and labour migration programming.

success:

In many cases, community leaders encouraged men to participate in the discussion sessions on safe labour migration practices. Ensuring the participation of men in these discussions is crucial to affecting social norms change around gender equality.

context:

Communities have to be open to discussing issues related to gender equality and EVAW, and men and boys need to be invited to participate in community discussion forums in order for social norms change to occur. Capable and skilled facilitators need to be available to lead sensitive discussions around EVAW in order to do no harm.

description:

Information sessions on safe labour migration practices in migrant worker communities are excellent opportunities to bring together community members, including women and men, to engage in dialogue on gender equality and social norms change, including intimate partner violence (IPV). In some migrant worker communities, the SAF Programme brought together both women and men to learn about safe labour migration practices and access to violence against women (VAW) services. Some of these sessions also touched upon social norms surrounding gender equality and VAW, including IPV. Interviews with women migrant workers (WMWs) suggest that these sessions positively contributed to notable decreases in IPV within the community. This indicates that community discussion forums can be an excellent entry point to improve social norms regarding gender equality and VAW.

administrative_issues:

Social norms change is a vast and often costly area of intervention. By using existing platforms such as labour migration information sessions in migrant worker communities to discuss gender equality and EVAW, labour migration programmes can advance social norms change around gender equality and EVAW with relatively little investment.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/1680803

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location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

EU-MPTF Spotlight Initiative ILO-UNW JP "Safe and Fair: Realizing women migrant workers' right and opportunities in the ASEAN region" - Final evaluation