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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:
- Communication/media strategy
- category:
- Organizational issues
- comments:
- Future labour migration and EVAW programming
- challenges:
- There is significant resistance among governments to support and provide services to undocumented migrant workers. Therefore, UN programming is required to take a more diplomatic and creative approach to promote the rights of undocumented workers.
- success:
- UN programmes are very well placed to promote international human rights standards, which call for equal protection of all people regardless of their migration status.
- context:
- The UN is required to respect government decisions regarding the migration status of migrant workers and cannot be perceived as promoting irregular migration. However, the UN is also obliged to promote international human rights standards, which call for equal protection of all people regardless of their legal status.
- description:
- Communications and advocacy messaging that call for service provision to all women is an effective strategy to gain support for the inclusion of undocumented WMWs into policies and service provision. The SAF Programme effectively drew on international human rights standards that require the protection of all people regardless of their legal status when it supported the strengthening of government laws, policies, and service provision to WMWs. By focusing on the need to include all women regardless of their legal status, the programme was able to convince government partners to increase legal protections and access to services for irregular and undocumented WMWs. Drawing on international human rights standards and focusing on the inclusion of all women is an effective strategy to advance the rights of undocumented workers that could be applied to programming in other contexts.
- administrative_issues:
- Implementing this lesson learned would require careful attention to messaging.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/1680823
- location:
- country:
- Inter-Regional
- region:
- Inter-Regional
- 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
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