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Irish Aid Phase II: Testing methodologies to support informal economy workers and small producers to combat hazardous child labour in their own sectors - Final Evaluation

eval_number:

2259

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2259

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Occupational safety & health

category:

Governance and Tripartism

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comments:

Women and youth in quarries and fish markets

challenges:

OSH is still conceived as theoritical and not directly linked to concrete work conditions. Existing training material probably not enough adaptative

success:

GAWU and OBISACOTE, as Unions, have the potential opportunities to involve union members in the research for OSH appropriate methods and tools

context:

GAWU and OBISACOTE are short in training methods and tools to improve productivity and working health conditions

description:

The project’s activities on Occupational Safety and Health are critical when combatting child labour in Ghana and Benin and need a specially tailored methodology and tools to be effective for transformational change, improving work conditions and income – especially for women/mothers and youth. OSH tools for cocoa or other sectors cannot be applied automatically in the fishing context and the need for specific OSH materials and tools in fishing to achieve better results. The OSH training done in Torkor was based on the concepts extracted from the ILO manual for the cocoa sector. Considering the type of trainees and the Torkor context, conscience and knowledge raising on OSH concepts will be more efficiently and appropriately be done acting and learning by experiencing improvements in the concrete work conditions of fishers and, more importantly, of the women that deal with fish in the market. The same can be said concerning Benin, where improvements of the stone breaking tools can be addressed by unions.

administrative_issues:

IPEC/FPRW have the opportunity to reform methods and approach for OSH training. It is highly recommended that future training sessions use learning by doing approach with, at least, 50% of practical demonstrations. Themes of training should be directly linked with current work and management issues, e.g. the work conditions of fish clean gutting and processing or planning the use of equipment with simple records of expenditures and revenues. In all cases, it is advisable that the training sessions focus always on concrete issues with an immediate outcome on the working conditions, easily identifiable and evaluated by participants as progress.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/205329

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location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

Irish Aid Phase II: Testing methodologies to support informal economy workers and small producers to combat hazardous child labour in their own sectors - Final Evaluation