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Independent Clustered Evaluation of Vision Zero Fund projects in the global coffee supply chain

eval_number:

3102

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3102

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Programme implementation

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

Project formulators

challenges:

In Colombia, the main structural limitations for coffee farm workers to access social protection are: (i) the regulations are designed for affiliation of permanent workers, and in the coffee sector they are usually temporary; (ii) workers do not want to join a contributory scheme, because doing so would deprive them of the benefits of the SISBEN, which is a subsidised scheme; and (iii) small farms cannot afford the cost of affiliating all their temporary workers. In Mexico, the main limitations are: (i) there are workers who do not comply with the administrative or documentary requirements of the national regulations to be insured; and (ii) social security is of poor quality, so the company and the workers agree that the farm does not affiliate the worker but that, in case of illness or accident, it pays for medicines and pays their wages for the days they are unable to work.

success:

-

context:

Agriculture in developing countries is characterised by a highly heterogeneous production structure and agricultural productivity; high informality of employment; exposure of workers to occupational hazards and high incidence of occupational injuries and diseases; low supply of public services related to OSH and social protection, and a lack of quality. In future similar projects, it is necessary to consider intersectional and complementary approaches to address more comprehensively the structural deficits and barriers faced by agricultural workers and producers in adopting safe and healthy practices in the workplace. These approaches imply fostering complementarity and synergies with other projects or institutions working on issues such as formalisation of agriculture; development of labour markets in rural areas; the right to unionisation of agricultural workers; social protection mechanisms; to integrate OSH into their work and, in this way, seek to reverse the deficits and structural barriers to adopting safe and healthy practices in the workplace.

description:

Factors beyond the scope of project interventions that may limit their ability to achieve their objectives include: structural barriers to rural and agricultural development; underdeveloped rural labour markets; insufficient youth labour force; reduced organisational capacity and agency of rural workers; and structural limitations for coffee farm workers to access social protection.

administrative_issues:

This lesson learned is linked to project design processes.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/246961

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location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

Independent Clustered Evaluation of Vision Zero Fund projects in the global coffee supply chain