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PROMOTE: Decent work for domestic workers to end child domestic work - Final Joint Evaluation

eval_number:

1957

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/1957

good_practices:

replication:

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cause_effect:

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themes:

theme:

Vulnerable groups

category:

Conditions of work & equality

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context:

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description:

The PROMOTE project goal is to reduce child domestic work through promoting decent work for domestic workers in Indonesia, and more widely in Asia through the International Domestic Workers’ Federation (IDWF). One of PROMOTE’s major strategies was to reach out to domestic workers to organize them in groups to enable them to advocate on their own behalf. One of the main project partners, JALA PRT, the National Network for Domestic Workers’ Advocacy in Indonesia, used an effective method to reach out to domestic workers to link them into peer advocacy groups. JALA PRT successfully used the “Rap” method to reach over 3,000 domestic workers across four targeted locations within the project duration, This method was used systematically to train domestic worker leaders to identify and encourage DWs to join and be active in DW groups. It refers to a rapid and dynamic door knocking and snowballing approach to reach domestic workers and raise their awareness of their rights. JALA PRT and another main NGO partner network, JARAK, mentioned that they found the Rap method particularly useful. Rap was originally developed in the United States as an advocacy and organizing tool. It was subsequently adapted to the DW situation in Indonesia with the help of another civil society organization in Indonesia, the Urban Poor Consortium. It involves a participatory and dynamic method with set of steps to interact with target domestic workers, as documented more fully in the ILO/IWDF 2017 publication, “Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Eight Good practices from Asia”. This method is a means to bring together and organize members of scattered and voiceless groups such as domestic workers.

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indicators:

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url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/practices/198071

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location:

country:

Indonesia

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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country:

Asia and the Pacific - regional

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

PROMOTE: Decent work for domestic workers to end child domestic work - Final Joint Evaluation