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ILO-DFID Partnership Programme on Fair Recruitment and Decent Work for Women Migrant Workers in South Asia and the Middle East -Phase II - Midterm evaluation

eval_number:

2868

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2868

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Migration

category:

Conditions of work & equality

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comments:

ILO initiatives working on migrant worker rights and decent work.

challenges:

N/A

success:

N/A

context:

Preconditions relate to the need to develop more inclusive forms of considering migrant worker and national worker rights, coupled with initiatives that decommodify migrants and see them as both active agents and workers.

description:

Promoting solidarity – Migrant and national domestic workers. The premise and potential contribution of a human security framework to WIF thinking has been introduced earlier. An initial discussion around the concept of solidarity was held with the Lebanon National Project Coordinator, and that this was insightful and productive provides a sense of the value the framework can serve. In Lebanon WIF is piloting a digital app targeted at national domestic workers/ carers, rather than migrant workers, in an imaginative pilot that is about the kind of bridge building between national (and Syrian) workers) and migrant workers that is necessary, to generate a wider cultural acceptance of domestic work being treated as a legitimate form of work. Although targeted at national workers, the app also provides a precedent for a mode of employing care workers that is wholly outside the kafala system. In countries of origin too, networks have promoted women’s rights more broadly, and also sought to address domestic and garment factor work issues more inclusively. To advance the solidarity principle inclusive of migrant and national workers, there are three key principles. o Decommodification of MWs requires them to be seen as workers not migrants o Seeking to unify initiatives for decent work across national and migrant workers in a sector o (Re-)Integration of MWs into sending/ receiving communities

administrative_issues:

N/A

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/229464

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location:

country:

Asia and the Pacific - regional

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

ILO-DFID Partnership Programme on Fair Recruitment and Decent Work for Women Migrant Workers in South Asia and the Middle East -Phase II - Midterm evaluation