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Sea Fisheries: Strengthened Coordination to Combat Labour Exploitation and Trafficking in Fisheries in Southeast Asia - Final evaluation

eval_number:

2705

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2705

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Fishing

category:

Sector

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comments:

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challenges:

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success:

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context:

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description:

• Significant outreach and planning is required before launching a regional coordinating body (RCB). Assuming that the need for a such as body is not widely recognized at the beginning of the process, considerable effort is needed to identify key actors in each country, explain the purpose of the RCB, and encourage the active participation of government authorities and other constituents. Outreach activities need to be coupled with rigorous planning based on objective research on the nature and magnitude of the problem in each country. It would be helpful to conduct assessments of the existing legal framework and institutional constraints in the countries as part of the planning process. The process should culminate in a strategy document, which identifies the goals and objectives of the RCB, the specific problems that it will address, the activities that it will undertake, membership arrangement, governance structure, secretariat functions and staffing, and financial plan. With respect to the latter, the potential for long-term funding needs to be considered at the outset. The RCB should not be launched until there is agreement on the plan among a sufficient number of participating countries. The agreement should be in the form of a resolution of the ministers in member States to signal their endorsement of the strategy and commitment to work together to address common problems in the region, bearing in mind that multiple ministries may be responsible for policy matters related to trafficking, forced labor, labor exploitation in the fishing sector. This process will take considerable time and money. It would be preferable to divide projects into two distinct phases. The design phase would focus on outreach, research and planning, culminating in the endorsement of the strategy document. The implementation phase would begin once the strategy is endorsed and requisite financial resourced secured.

administrative_issues:

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url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/230048

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location:

country:

Thailand

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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country:

Asia and the Pacific - regional

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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country:

Indonesia

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Sea Fisheries: Strengthened Coordination to Combat Labour Exploitation and Trafficking in Fisheries in Southeast Asia - Final evaluation