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Tripartite action to protect migrants within and from the GMS from labour exploitation - Final Evaluation

eval_number:

1379

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/1379

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Gender equality

category:

Conditions of work & equality

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comments:

Chief Technical Advisors, International Project Coordinators, Technical Officers, National Project Coordinators, Gender Specialists

challenges:

N/A

success:

The project attempted to address broader gender inequalities for all project beneficiaries, including women and men migrant workers, government officials at central and local levels, and social partner representatives. For instance, gender equality concerns were mainstreamed into all ILO technical comments on legislation and policy, drawing on international gender equality standards articulated in ILO and other UN instruments. Where possible, partners from women’s organisations and UN Women were invited to attend consultations on draft legislation and policy, to further ensure gender sensitivity within legislative and policy instruments. It was good practice to address the fact that men and boys, as well as women and girls, have specific vulnerabilities to forced labour and trafficking. Men in the fishing sector, for example, are extremely hard to reach and often in dire need of assistance. However, because of the stigma of being labelled a ‘failure’ or a ‘victim’, men are often reluctant to acknowledge that they have been exploited or trafficked, and therefore may not be inclined to seek out or accept support services. Moreover, in several countries, the anti-trafficking legislation does not cover adult men as potential victims. more in the full report

context:

Challenges which affected gender aspects of the project included: absence of an explicit strategy to mainstream gender in activities; insufficient monitoring strategy to institutionalise gender mainstreaming from project inception; inadequate capacity of implementing partners; lack of systematic availability of sex-disaggregated statistics of participation in and benefit from project activities; availability of gender expertise to assist the project; inadequate systematic gender analysis throughout the project; absence of a gender budget.

description:

To ensure systematic achievement of positive gender equality outputs and outcomes in the project from its inception, it would have been good to have: • a specific gender equality strategy • targeted gender equality training for implementing partners • systematic collection of sex disaggregated data • allocation of specific expertise (e.g. local gender consultants who speak local languages and have good awareness of cultural issues); and • a gender budget.

administrative_issues:

To source less expensive gender expertise, consider using networks of women’s organisations and unions to identify local gender consultants who speak local languages and have good awareness of cultural issues. Other ideas include low cost or non-project budget options such as ILO Junior Professional Officers (funded by national governments), UN Volunteers (lower cost professionals), Australian or New Zealand Volunteers or similar (like UN Volunteers but funded by national governments). Many of these professionals have several years of work experience, or may be retirees, and may be a good source of gender expertise. In the absence of specific gender expertise, include implementation of the gender strategy as a key function of a project technical officer. For gender equality training of implementing partners, consider developing a gender equality training manual (like the project developed for MRC M&E), and conducting targeted training based on this manual with key implementing partners in the inception phase. Consider engaging local gender experts and local women’s organisations and unions to facilitate this.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/181142

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location:

country:

Asia and the Pacific - regional

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Tripartite action to protect migrants within and from the GMS from labour exploitation - Final Evaluation