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Better Work Lesotho, Better Work Nicaragua, Better Work Haiti - Final cluster evaluation
- eval_number:
- 1907
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/1907
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Gender equality
- category:
- Conditions of work & equality
- comments:
- Direct beneficiaries are men and women workers and employers.
Indirect beneficiaries: Workers families and communities, the garment industry.
- challenges:
- Lack of knowledge, stereotypes and reticence to changes are some of the challenges to defeat within the garment industry, while ending gender inequalities at workplace.
An inexistence or minimum development of a country’s public policy on gender equality and /or ending violence against women is another factor that influence negatively the design and implementation of policies that promote gender equality in work as a whole.
- success:
- Women have no fear and raise their voices against discrimination and sexual harassment at work place. Men and women are more aware about their rights and the consequences of power’s abuse, ending in a more democratic and equal work environment and society.
- context:
- The BW programme has a generic approach implemented across all countries to avoid women worker’s discrimination in various ways: access to jobs, promotion and wages and sexual harassment. This approach has also been integrated in all aspects of its work, including staff recruitment, compliance assessments, training, information resources, monitoring and evaluation.
- description:
- Gender equality goes beyond a workplace free of violence and sexual harassment. The evaluation noticed the scarce internalization and visualization of gender equality issues in the BW interventions and among the different national actors. The evaluation learned that there is a need to promote not only a workplace free of violence and sexual harassment, but also the creation and implementation of policies that promote gender equality in work as a whole. This includes elements ranging from an equal number of men and women in management positions to the recognition of the same wages for men and women in the same jobs; to the inclusion of men in trainings that until now have been given only to women, such as sexual and reproductive health; maternity, etc.
- administrative_issues:
- -
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/195148
- location:
- country:
- Lesotho
- region:
- Africa
- country:
- Haiti
- region:
- Americas
- country:
- Nicaragua
- region:
- Americas
- eval_title:
- Better Work Lesotho, Better Work Nicaragua, Better Work Haiti - Final cluster evaluation
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