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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:
- Training
- category:
- Employment
- comments:
- Migration project staff, Chief Technical Advisors, International Project Coordinators, Technical Officers, National Project Coordinators
- challenges:
- The project invested significant time and resources training implementing partners where required. However, capacity building was affected by frequent staff turnover and efforts to manage knowledge acquired in training workshops to offset this had limited effect in many instances. Most constituents did not have systems for knowledge management, so the project tried to mitigate the knowledge management risk through the institutionalization of manuals, guidelines and legislative tools.
However, national and regional staff remained key in initiating new project partners to the goals and interventions of the project. Many implementing partners required more backstopping and capacity building to increase sustainability. Regular coaching from National Project Coordinators (NPCs) was essential to ensuring that they were able to provide quality support services and meet reporting requirements. Depending on the priorities at any given point during the project, NPCs were not always available for the longer-term coaching needs.
In hindsight, workshops were not necessarily the most effective way to provide capacity building in a sustainable manner. However, on the job training requires more significant resource investment. Notwithstanding, workshops were a good way to get stakeholders in all countries speaking more lucidly regarding labour migration, including its links with forced labour, child labour, and trafficking. The impact in increased knowledge of stakeholders could be seen in the later years of the project, with the level of conversations in consultations having significantly improved.
- success:
- In Cambodia, Lao PDR and Viet Nam, an assessment was carried out on the capacity of the institutions responsible for overseeing the deployment and protection of workers. The assessment supported the identification of gaps in terms of the policy, organizational structure, coordination mechanisms and human resources of these institutions, and led to the development of a Training Needs Plan, which prioritized the delivery of training to a variety of stakeholders. Though never formally endorsed by project partners, the Training Needs Plan has guided the formulation of annual work plans.
Following the adoption or revision of policies and legislation, the project provided extensive support to the responsible authorities through capacity building trainings at central and local levels. In addition, promulgation was reinforced through dissemination of information to the affected parties and monitoring of practical gaps in delivery.
The project encouraged trade unions to play a bigger role in the protection of migrant workers through the development and implementation of action plans, with the goal of permanently broadening the focus of trade unions to include migrant workers. This was carried out in each country in close cooperation with the ILO Specialist on Workers Activities, and drawing from the ILO ACTRAV Manual, In Search of Decent Work: A Manual for Trade Unionists. In certain countries, this led to increased comprehension of the issues and visibility, and gave trade unions more voice in advocating for changes in migration policy.
- context:
- Through enhancing the capacity of tripartite constituents within project countries, the project worked to narrow the gaps between policy enacted and practical implementation for national policy frameworks, bilateral agreements and regional commitments related to the recruitment and protection of women and men migrant workers.
For example, following the adoption or revision of policies and legislation, the project provided extensive support to the responsible authorities through capacity building training workshops at central and local levels.
- description:
- The project invested significant time and resources training implementing partners where required. However, capacity building was affected by frequent staff turnover and efforts to manage knowledge acquired in training workshops to offset this had limited effect in many instances.
- administrative_issues:
- To ensure the sustainability of the interventions related to capacity building, consider:
1. Systems to better communicate ILO technical comments on labour migration law and policy to social partners and CSOs, thereby empowering national level partners to continue rights based advocacy in the long term.
2. Developing tools to measure the impact of capacity building activities, beyond pre- and post-testing. The results emerging from the use of these tools should be shared with the project partners to demonstrate the value of the training.
3. Increasing instances of on the job coaching to influence working styles and problem solving initiative by implementing partners.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/181147
- location:
- country:
- Asia and the Pacific - regional
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- eval_title:
- Tripartite action to protect migrants within and from the GMS from labour exploitation - Final Evaluation
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