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Fair recruitment and decent work for women migrant workers in South Asia and the Middle East - Regional Component - Final Evaluation
- eval_number:
- 2350
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2350
- location:
- country:
- Nepal
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- country:
- Jordan
- region:
- Arab States
- country:
- Inter-Regional
- region:
- Inter-Regional
- country:
- Bangladesh
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- country:
- Lebanon
- region:
- Arab States
- country:
- India
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- eval_title:
- Fair recruitment and decent work for women migrant workers in South Asia and the Middle East - Regional Component - Final Evaluation
- recommendations:
- date:
- 2020-07-29 00:00:00.0
- themes:
- theme:
- Organizational issues
- category:
- Programme implementation
- comments:
- The programme in origin locations will continue to advocate better pre-departure orientation sessions for women workers before they leave the country. Effective labour inspection and/or and better collaboration with civil society may help to protect the interests of migrant workers in destination countries.
- action_plan:
- It is important to reiterate that the sectors of employment that ILO’s WIF programme deals with consist of domestic and garment work. The business models of these sectors are intrinsically linked to low incomes of workers. While a few employers do practice post-arrival orientation training for migrant women (e.g. Classic Fashion in Jordan), the recommendation assumes that employers and recruiters are interested in creating training space to enable migrant workers to negotiate better terms and uphold their rights, or that recruiters and/or governments have the means to organize post-arrival orientation. In practice when it is practiced, such orientation training tends to leaves no space for life skills or rights and instead develops subservience to the employer, and most employers, recruiters and governments don’t have the funds to fund such orientation. Such an intervention would therefore not be sustainable. Moreover, ILO is not in a position to leverage space for life skills in such contexts and its funding would end-up representing an unfair subsidy for certain employers compared to others with no guarantee that the training would empower women. Finally, there is a considerable risk that such practices may unintentionally raise recruitment costs across the sector and harm migrant workers.
- management_response:
- Rejected
- progress:
- No implementation
- admin_units:
- DWT/CO-New Delhi
- title:
- WIF should consider facilitating the piloting of post-arrival orientation training in a country of destination. This could include information on rights and institutions they can turn to should they face violation of their rights.
- project_symbols:
- RAS/13/55/UKM
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/13270
- information_source:
- Regional Office
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