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Sustainable supply chains to build forward better: Decent work in five global supply chains of key importance to the European Union for a fair, resilient, and sustainable COVID-19...- Final evaluation

eval_number:

3450

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3450

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

COVID-19

category:

COVID-19

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comments:

ILO officers and Tri-partite partners at the national and sector level and international actors in the EU and global supply chains and the EC as a donor of SSCBFB. Companies and responsible business networks could also be engaged more closely

challenges:

The involvement of international actors in the SSCBFB implementation has remained limited and outreach to EU-level actors and stakeholders (as planned in the design of the project) has not been realised at the time of this evaluation, with only limited time left until the end of the project.

success:

Global and sectoral workers’ (including GUFS) and employers’ organisations and business networks show a keen interest in this project and can be more closely involved as partners in implementation

context:

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated developments and deepened challenges, though many of the decent work challenges in the global supply chains reflect structural issues and causes and require tackling these challenges with a structural approach. In this approach legal frameworks and voluntary actions together can accelerate change in behaviour among global supply chain actors.

description:

While the SSCBFB project in design was a response to the COVID-19 pandemic related challenges, its implementation shows that the decent work challenges tackled in the project in fact focus more on structural challenges in supply chains. While COVID-19 has had a pronounced impact on direction and speed of changes in supply chains, the structural challenges to improve decent work in specific supply chains have remained the same. A consistent approach to improve decent work in international supply chains requires a combination of working on legal frameworks and enforcement and voluntary actions.

administrative_issues:

One-ILO level cooperation and increased involved of employers’ and workers’ organisations through ACTEMP and ACTRAV. And exploration of external partnerships with and outreach to actors in the EU and at the global supply chain level is desirable.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/255296

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location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

Sustainable supply chains to build forward better: Decent work in five global supply chains of key importance to the European Union for a fair, resilient, and sustainable COVID-19...- Final evaluation