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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:

Programme implementation

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

ILO Regional Offices concerned with long term migrant worker reform processs.

challenges:

N/A

success:

N/A

context:

ILO long term programme frameworks.

description:

Adopting a programmatic approach and protecting the legacy of Work in Freedom. This is a broader lesson for the ILO with respect to its work on highly complex migration issues. WIF has shown the essentiality of a long and deep rooted approach. We have seen the journey the programme has undertaken, and it is highly impressive. But with FCDO funding due to end early in 2023, it is experience that the ILO cannot afford to lose. From a programme quality perspective, the ILO talks of having programmes but in practice has projects, in that each project has its own theory of change and results framework, but there are no overarching theories of change that connect these project based frameworks over 10-15 year time frames. Initiatives like that for Decent Work, could support the fulfilment of this role, but have only the starting points for a theory of change. The FAIRWAY migration programme looking at migration linkages between Africa and the Middle East, for example, does not (yet) have an empowerment component to it. But from the lessons learned from WIF, this is essential to any migration initiative that wishes to treat women as active agents and not victims. It is positive that the migration team within the Beirut regional office works as a single team and plans activities jointly, even if they are supported through different projects, and similarly within Delhi. This needs to be extended though into the development of overarching programme frameworks too. We believe this is essential to preserving the legacy of WIF and the longer term struggle the ILO is engaged in to humanise and eradicate the kafala system in the Middle East. Any aim short of this, is less than migrant workers deserve. Women migrant workers especially have had their humanity denied for too long, and WIF has shown the rights abuses that regularly take place cannot be treated without deep knowledge, relationships and capabilities.

administrative_issues:

N/A

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/229474

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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