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Consolidating and disseminating efforts to combat forced labour in Brazil and Peru - Final Evaluation
- eval_number:
- 1974
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/1974
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Forced labour
- category:
- Child labour, forced labour, human trafficking and slavery
- comments:
- Project designers. Population potentially co-opted under FL. Project beneficiaries.
- challenges:
- There is always the risk of a weak prioritization of gender in this kind of interventions.
- success:
- The survey conducted in Maranhão revealed the fact that there is a high number of women in a situation analogous to that of slaves in the farms (as cooks or employees); in domestic work in general and in sex work. This information was crucial in order to infom future decisions on policy making aginst FL.
- context:
- Apparently, the assumption at the design phase was that FL predominantly affected the male population, since this was based on data from forced labor inspections, provided by MTE. The few references to women appeared in relation to rescues from the apparel industries in São Paulo, most of which were Latin American migrants. With this new information provided by the project further interventions could strengthen this preventive approach.
- description:
- Through the project’s research Gender dimension clearly appeared linked to the FL phenomena. The emphasis given by the IAP to the preventive work inside the communities enlightened the fact that women are indeed crucial in the fight against FL because the majority of men victims of FL feel pushed to FL in order to gain the livelihood to support their family. By encouraging women’s productive inclusion, the need for the men to look for their family livelihood (and therefore his risk to be co-opted under FL) diminishes.
- administrative_issues:
- ILO could apply the survey “Hard to count, harder to see” at the initial stage of a FL intervention in order to clarify the presence of women affected by the FL phenomena. This may imply resources for the development of the survey. Design of these type of interventions should give priority to the gender approach in order to gain effectiveness.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/198188
- location:
- country:
- Americas - regional
- region:
- Americas
- country:
- Peru
- region:
- Americas
- country:
- Brazil
- region:
- Americas
- eval_title:
- Consolidating and disseminating efforts to combat forced labour in Brazil and Peru - Final Evaluation
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