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Outcome 5: Thematic Funding for 2014-2015 - Final Independent Evaluation

eval_number:

2572

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2572

good_practices:

replication:

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cause_effect:

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themes:

theme:

Gender equality

category:

Conditions of work & equality

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context:

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description:

Mainstreaming issues such as gender equality into sectoral areas of intervention is an ongoing challenge for organizations such as the ILO, and one which consistently faces institutional resistance, watering down of rights based agendas, and marginalization. In this light this project has had notable success in fostering intra-institutional learning and coordination on the issues of domestic workers, in particular, and vulnerable workers/ atypical working arrangements more generally. The experience of mainstreaming the rights of DW into the core work of the ILO, as evidenced by the project seems to have been a highly successful example, and lessons can be learnt from some of the core approaches used. Successful strategies appear to have included the following: linking a focus on DW to the core areas of work (e.g. wages, social dialogue, right to rest etc.) of participating staff; balancing specific interventions (CPOs focused on C189 in particular) with mainstreaming approaches (addressing domestic workers' rights issues through CPOs focused on issues such as minimum wages and social protection); building on the momentum of the launch of C189 in 2011, and its high profile at the Labour conference to draw on both internal and external support; developing institutional structures (e.g. the Interdisciplinary Working Group on Domestic Work) to foster collaboration across the ILO, and; employing a very collaborative and inclusive management, with credit to the particular capacity of the lead INWORK team.

links:

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indicators:

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url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/practices/220067

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location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

Outcome 5: Thematic Funding for 2014-2015 - Final Independent Evaluation