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Promoting decent work through good governance, protection and empowerment of migrant workers: Ensuring the effective implentation of the Sri Lanka National Labour Migration Policy - Final evaluation

eval_number:

2591

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2591

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Tripartism & constituent partnerships

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

- ILO and constituents

challenges:

- If an ILO project especially on such a high-profile issue as migration does not actively involve the social partners, the specific role and mandate of the ILO can be questioned.

success:

- History shows that the stronger involvement of the social partners in labour market policy the stronger and more sustainable are the outcomes and the impact.

context:

- In the Project Document involvement of the social partners was foreseen and in the MTE Report this was again recommended as high priority. The trade unions were not involved and the employers only to a very limited extend. The reason for this can be found in the fact that besides invitations to participate in meetings no activities were foreseen with the social partners in the project design. - Out-bound migration is seldom an issue of high priority of the social partners. Therefore, it is necessary to take additional steps to make them interested in the work of the project. In the current situation in Sri Lanka where there in certain sectors is a workforce deficit, which is covered by in-bound migration both employers and trade unions have an obvious interest in getting involved in labour migration issues. - It should be noted, that TU-membership among labour migrants is very small. The capacity building of trade unions, concerning labour migration issues and how to incorporate that into their organisations work, could have been paid more attention. In Phase II safe migration sensitization sessions were conducted, but this was not followed-up in Phase III.

description:

Securing maximum involvement of constituents on high profile labour market policy issues. Labour migration is an issue of objective interest for all three constituents. If involvement of constituents is not clearly spelled out in the project design and its management structure in such a way that it invite maximum participation from constituents, in accordance with normal ILO practises, there is a risk that it is not going to materialize. Having in mind the mandate of the ILO it is of the highest importance to secure the active involvement of all three constituents especially on such important labour market political issues as labour migration both out-bound and in-bound.

administrative_issues:

- It must be secured that project design invite the social partners to active participation in the implementation.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/205000

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location:

country:

Sri Lanka

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Promoting decent work through good governance, protection and empowerment of migrant workers: Ensuring the effective implentation of the Sri Lanka National Labour Migration Policy - Final evaluation