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Making Decent Work a Reality for Domestic Workers - Final evaluation
- eval_number:
- 2320
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2320
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Domestic work
- category:
- Sector
- comments:
- Targeted users or Beneficiaries: ILO staff, constituents and Domestic Workers
- challenges:
- The short time frame of outcome based funding support make initiatives difficult to evaluate without knowledge of previous programmes and evaluations.
- success:
- It is interesting to compare cultural attitudes to domestic workers with attitudes towards child labourers 10 to 15 years ago (which has changed considerable in many countries). It can be argued that in 10 years ILO achieved a lot with regard to attitudes towards child labour in India (although of course much remains to be done on child labour.
New knowledge brought in from the situation in-countries who are implementing measures to address domestic workers is very beneficial. The enthusiasm for a focus on domestic workers may not last infinitely, thus speedily obtaining examples of ways to approach this difficult category of informal and isolated workers is necessary.
- context:
- Shifting attitudes on Domestic Workers amongst the public takes time. For example India society has particular perceptions about domestic work that are difficult to alter, particularly because women from marginalised communities are those that perform domestic work. Even with regulation, implementation will be difficult unless there are good practices from different states that demonstrate operational experience.
- description:
- The effect of new ideas, concepts or ideology around the rights of domestic workers cannot be determined during a two-year period.
Much work remains to establish domestic workers as workers in their own right. Cultural dimensions around domestic workers are deeply biased and hard to change.
- administrative_issues:
- Always plan for and budget for a longer term funding perspective with regard to decent work for domestic workers.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/190853
- location:
- country:
- Inter-Regional
- region:
- Inter-Regional
- eval_title:
- Making Decent Work a Reality for Domestic Workers - Final evaluation
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