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Improving industrial relations for decent work and sustainable development of textile and garment industries in Ethiopia - Final Cluster Evaluation
- eval_number:
- 2534
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2534
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Gender equality
- category:
- Conditions of work & equality
- comments:
- Workers (young women) and potential female leaders and senior officials.
- challenges:
- - Traditional role of women in rural areas where the young women are migrating from
- Workers with low educational background
- “Workers” representatives selected by management
- Insufficient data to demonstrate the needs and challenges
- success:
- - The young women are benefiting a lot from the soft skills/livelihood training they received within the project
- Many of the women are now reported to use family planning
- The working discipline and turnover has improved
- context:
- The far majority of workers in the industry are women, but there are very few women in any leading positions in the factories, among MOLSA and BOLSA officials and in the workers and employers organisations.
- description:
- Lack of gender disaggregated data in the design phase leads to low priority of empowerment of women.
The project documents were generally lacking gender disaggregated data, likewise were the set-out targets also not gender disaggregated. There were limited activities for ensuring women empowerment through targeted leadership capacity building for women. As a result, were few women participating in skills development whereas many participated in awareness raising. A consequence of this will be that the skills and knowledge gap between males and females will increase and by that is the likelihood that more female leaders will appear in the workers and employers’ organisations and among e.g., Labour Inspectors be minimised.
- administrative_issues:
- - The project budget did not allocate specific resources for women leadership development
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/216701
- location:
- country:
- Ethiopia
- region:
- Africa
- eval_title:
- Improving industrial relations for decent work and sustainable development of textile and garment industries in Ethiopia - Final Cluster Evaluation
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