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Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains – Programme of Action for Asia and the Garment Sector

eval_number:

3044

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3044

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Planning and programme design

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

ILO Industrial Relations Specialists ILO Industrial Relations Project Managers ILO and ILO consultants who design Industrial Relations Projects

challenges:

ILO programme managers reported that limited project duration and budget constrained opportunities to institutionalize the programme.

success:

Feedback from participants in the LSGSC enterprise-level CBA pilot program was positive. One employer representative remarked that: “I am impressed about the TOT training. It was quite comprehensive compared to training provided by other projects. After being trained, they conducted training. The process and the way they involved all the parties was good”. In Indonesia, LSGSC interventions to promote collective bargaining at the enterprise-level in garment factories were welcomed by the Government of Indonesia (GOI), due to the perception that such an approach aligned with the government’s policy to promote collective bargaining and build the capacity of trade unions to negotiate collective agreements. The government has its own training programme on CBAs; however, project attempts to seek collaboration with the government programme were not taken up at the time of the final evaluation.

context:

In 2016, LSGSC conducted its first pilot ‘training of trainers’ (TOT) on collective bargaining with participants from provincial unions, employers’ organization representatives, and provincial labour department representatives in West Java and Central Java. This was followed-up by the project in both 2017 and 2018 with training for factory-level CBA negotiation teams which included trade union and management representatives from 16 pilot garment factories. Through their participation, 11 pilot factories either developed new CBAs or revised existing CBAs, applying the knowledge and skills learned in the training delivered by trainers capacitated by LSGSC project through its TOT approach. LSGSC awareness-raising, aided by Better Work Indonesia, and the requirements of some international apparel buyers regarding the presence of CBA agreements in their supplier factories encouraged factory participation in the LSGSC enterprise-level CBA pilot programme. The pilot enterprise level CBA promotion programme in Indonesia, which trained trainers effectively and facilitated trainer follow-on work at the factory level, was successful but was limited in scope and lacked a clear sustainability strategy. An obstacle to the scalability and sustainability of LSGSC’s enterprise-level pilot programme on collective bargaining was the absence of an agreement between ILO and a national organization that would be able continue the training programme beyond the life of the LSGSC project itself. National workers’ and employers’ organizations representatives regretted their limited involvement in the pilot programme, which they reported as having constrained institutionalization of the training programme.

description:

The importance of paying attention to the scale of impact and/or the scalability of interventions in project design and implementation: case of ILO support for collective bargaining agreements in Cambodia and Indonesia In Indonesia, LSGSC’s programme of work to promote collective bargaining trained trainers effectively and facilitated trainer follow-up work at the factory-level. The LSGSC enterprise-level CBA pilot program included many of the ingredients for both a successful and scalable intervention, however ILO needed additional time and investment in embedding the approach in one or more national institutions in order to deliver scalable, and sustained impact.

administrative_issues:

N/A

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/236902

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location:

country:

Asia and the Pacific - regional

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains – Programme of Action for Asia and the Garment Sector