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FAIRWAY Program - Final evaluation

eval_number:

3440

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3440

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Gender equality

category:

Conditions of work & equality

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comments:

Development actors, including the ILO and the UN agencies

challenges:

The FAIRWAY programme missed on integrating the gender equality in a strategic manner, starting from its conceptualization phase, by conducting gender analysis and developing a gender strategy supported by the Results Framework addressing gender equality issues through specific outcomes and outputs targeted at various needs of migrant men and women. In accordance with the Recommendation 2 and 5 of the Mid-Term Evaluation, the gender analysis was conducted yet the gender strategy has not been developed at the end of the FAIRWAY intervention. The FAIRWAY supported the establishment of the Migrant Resource Centers (MRCs) in Uganda and Kenya and operationalization of earlier established three MRCs in Nigeria. The interviews with the stakeholders revealed that the FAIRWAY programme has not developed specific services addressing needs of migrant men and women and rather worked on individual needs basis regardless of clients’ gender – migrant men and women. There was a notable effort by implementing partner in Ethiopia to engage relevant government offices or structures (children and women affairs, labour and skills, police and justice system) and grass-root CSOs. However, there was no specific investment made by the Programme and implementing partners on gender training, gender case development, researches and gender materials/guidelines. The analysis of the delivery of results presented in sex disaggregated manner suggests that men and boys have not benefitted to the equal extent as women and girls. E.g. In Lebanon, 2,994 Ethiopian migrant workers (100% women) received different consular and protection services from the Ethiopian missions. In Ethiopia 7,098 (6,647 women, 451 men) potential migrants including school students, returnees and families left behind reached by different partners with key information on labour migration and regular process and 500 returnee migrant workers (88.5% women) received training on business skills. In Kenya 1,189 (270 men and 919 women) potential and returning migrants assisted with services provided by the Kenya Labour Migration Resource Center (KLMRC) at National Employment Authority (NEA).

success:

The FAIRWAY staff received the training on gender issues and the evaluation stakeholders represented by the Programme staff demonstrated high awareness on importance of gender equality. The FAIRWAY adopted a strong 'women's empowerment focus through its activities and interventions in the CoO and CoD. The FAIRWAY programme integrated needs of women and girls into its activities in all local contexts in a consistent manner across different locations in the CoO in Africa and CoD.

context:

The FAIRWAY Program is a four-year inter-regional development cooperation project funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and implemented by the International Labour Organization (ILO) from December 2019 to March 2024. The programme aims to improve conditions of labour migration across migration pathways from Africa to Arab States and better protect all migrant workers in vulnerable situations within the Arab states region, thereby enabling migrant workers to contribute more fully to sustainable development in both countries of origin and destination. The budget of the Programme is USD 10,972,250 including an additional USD 1,500,000 in 2020 to support the COVID-19 response in African countries of origin.

description:

The programme of such scale and ambitions should have provisioned gender analysis and gender strategy at the stage of programme inception

administrative_issues:

To the Programme Department of the ILO, ROAS, programme staff at country level: 1. The programmes results frameworks should benefit from the expertise of ILO GEDI Bureau 2. Gender experts and gender-equality organizations should be consulted 3. Evaluability of human rights and gender equality should be conducted in line with the UNEG Guidance on Integrating Human Rights and Gender Equality in Evaluation prior the implementation on the ground

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/1859906

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location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

FAIRWAY Program - Final evaluation