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Promoting economic empowerment of women at work through responsible business conduct – G7 countries (in co-delegation with UN Women) - Final evaluation

eval_number:

2862

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2862

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Tripartism & constituent partnerships

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

ILO, EU and UN WOMEN

challenges:

The message of EU wasn’t delivered properly both to the ILO and the national governments, which caused a reluctance on the side of national governments to work with EU and divisions within ILO didn’t want to involve some action that was seen like EU was delivering technical assistance to the developed countries. In addition, the EU, UN Women and/or ILO did not engage with the three target countries governments to agree on the project scope and objectives. The ILO expected that the EU would have conducted consultations with the three target countries prior to the redaction of the Action Fiche.

success:

If this logic of the intervention was better delivered and better understood on all sides, the implementation would have gone more smoothly

context:

The instrument of EU is different from others, and it is not development cooperation, not providing technical assistance but cooperation between likeminded countries to EU, or in other words, working together with likeminded countries for serving EU’s trade, economic interest while improving conditions in the world of work, such as gender equality, gender equal pay and improving situation and work together to eliminate challenges in front of women economic empowerment. Therefore, G7 countries are seen as partners, and EU as making partnership with the governments, not a donor.

description:

All stakeholders should have communicated their ideas relevant to the project implemented in a much clearer way which might have led to better coordination and communication between/within stakeholders. On the EU side, the main underpinning objective of the project was to create a partnership within G7 countries to promote economy, trade and to position companies better to increase economic interest while strengthening linkages between EU and G7 countries implementing the project. However, this idea was not carried out to the other parties clearly, which caused misunderstandings both in ILO side and national governments of USA, Japan and Canada side.

administrative_issues:

Design and Implementation

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/228286

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location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

Promoting economic empowerment of women at work through responsible business conduct – G7 countries (in co-delegation with UN Women) - Final evaluation