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PROMOTE: Decent work for domestic workers to end child domestic work - Final Joint Evaluation

eval_number:

1957

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/1957

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Child labour

category:

Child labour, forced labour, human trafficking and slavery

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comments:

This lesson can be used by any project or programme that aims to tackle child domestic work.

challenges:

Care should be taken in designing project goals not to include dual goals in the design. In this case the ultimate goal was stated as the end to child labour in domestic work - through decent work for domestic workers; but few of the intervention strategies focused on child labour, with the exception of the community monitoring initiative of one of the project partners that has a child rights focus.

success:

The domestic workers organizations and their members had a few contacts with child domestic workers in some neighbourhoods, and with a more extended period of time of domestic worker organizing and outreach, the domestic worker groups may eventually focus more on the issue of child domestic labour and have an impact on this issue.

context:

The context of this lesson is any project addressing child domestic work in countries where the number of child domestic workers is generally decreasing and it is difficult to identify child domestic workers.

description:

PROMOTE aimed to contribute to the reduction of child domestic work through strategies aimed at promoting decent work for all domestic workers. The central strategy of the project to promote decent work for domestic workers was to strengthen the organization and capacity of domestic workers’ organizations to collectively advocate for their rights to decent work. The approach was based on an assumption that improved rights and conditions of domestic workers in general would help end child domestic work. However, the project reached very few child domestic workers through this strategy, as most of the child domestic workers are live-in workers, whereas the members of the domestic worker groups organized are mostly live-out domestic workers. Moreover, the households employing child domestic workers are scattered and dispersed, according to local observers and project staff. The domestic worker organizations conducted some advocacy on the minimum age for domestic work, but there was limited understanding of this issue among the groups met by the evaluators and the members were more focused on the rights of domestic workers in general. The evaluators concluded that more targeted and child-focused strategies, such as the neighbourhood watch approach, as also used by the PROMOTE project, are required to tackle child domestic work in the immediate term, while with a longer term project domestic workers’ organizations could be better engaged in this issue.

administrative_issues:

This lesson has implications for the design and implementation strategies of projects intended to tackle child labour and decent work for domestic workers. Projects intended to combat child labour should continue to develop and implement intensive and targeted methods to reach child workers and their employers to have more immediate impacts on child labour. In the longer term the mobilization of domestic workers to claim their rights may be strengthened with respect to fighting child labour in their industry.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/198052

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location:

country:

Indonesia

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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country:

Asia and the Pacific - regional

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

PROMOTE: Decent work for domestic workers to end child domestic work - Final Joint Evaluation