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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
- good_practices:
- replication:
- -
- cause_effect:
- .
- themes:
- theme:
- Planning and programme design
- category:
- Organizational issues
- context:
- -
- description:
- Developing generic capacity building tools for use in multiple countries.
This good practice was documented in the final evaluation of the Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains (LSGSC) project (2013-2018). The overall objective of LSGSC was to improve the lives of workers and increase decent work opportunities in the global garment sector supply chain, starting with three main beneficiary countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, and Pakistan. The project had three immediate objectives:
Immediate Objective 1 (IO1): Systems for participatory and evidence-based minimum wage-fixing, wages policy, and collective bargaining will have been improved in the target countries.
Immediate Objective 2 (IO2): Systems for assuring labour standards compliance at the factory level will have improved in the target countries;
Immediate Objective 3 (IO3): Institutional capacity of tripartite partners to respond to labour standards challenges in the global garment sector supply chain will have improved.
Many ILO programme managers and constituents cited the Minimum Wage Policy Guide as a useful resource. The guide, which is available online (see https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/wages/minimum-wages/WCMS_458660/lang--en/index.htm) includes chapters on definitions, number of rates, systems for setting rates, beneficiaries, monitoring, enforcing, and on domestic workers.
One of the positive outcomes of developing a “generic” versus a country specific guide was that it could be adapted to a variety of country settings and achieved economies of scale. According to one ILO official, the minimum wage guide was translated into local languages spoken in the LSGSC three project target countries and has also been used in non project countries, such as Ethiopia.
- links:
- -
- indicators:
- -
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/practices/236916
- location:
- country:
- Asia and the Pacific - regional
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- eval_title:
- Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains – Programme of Action for Asia and the Garment Sector
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