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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 National Project Coordinators, and initiatives working on decent work and migrant worker rights and protections.

challenges:

N/A

success:

N/A

context:

Ongoing engagement with governments at different levels in countries of origin and destination.

description:

Policy persistence and stamina. As noted, by the WIF Advisory Board, the current policy climate is bleak. ‘We note that WIF has undertaken some significant policy interventions, nevertheless. There have been significant changes in Jordan in relation to the domestic work regulation and in Nepal in relation to the partial removal of the ban on women emigrating to work’. In Lebanon too, persistent pressure by the ILO has helped to prevent the new Minister of Labour instituting an entirely undesirable replacement SUC and go back to accepting more of what had been agreed earlier. This persistence of the WIF team, despite repeated rebuffs, and its foundation in a continuous process of relationship building and consolidation, is one of the more remarkable traits of the team, in spite of the snail pace of some of these reform processes. It is both a laudable achievement and lesson in managing the reform of migrant labour laws, policies and regulations in the Middle East. In a context like Lebanon, the fact that WIF has continued to knock at the Ministry of Labour’s door, has also meant that gradually concessions around piloting new initiatives have been won too.

administrative_issues:

N/A

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/229469

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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