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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

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country:

Lebanon

region:

Arab States

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country:

Jordan

region:

Arab States

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country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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country:

Bangladesh

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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country:

India

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Fair recruitment and decent work for women migrant workers in South Asia and the Middle East - Regional Component - Final Evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2020-07-21 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Governance and Tripartism

category:

Social dialogue

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comments:

The evaluation of the first phase of WIF was followed bv a proactive approach by the Lebanese Ministry of Labour, establishing a Working Group on Kafala Reform which was coordinated by the ILO. The Working Group developed a road map to dismantle Kafala which was presented and discussed with international and national CSOs and trade unions and. The WIF program is engaging technically and financially to support this process which will indirectly respond to this recommendation.

action_plan:

Circular 1/9 pertains to a classification of migrant workers defined by the Ministry of Labour of Lebanon. It distinguishes four categories of workers taking into consideration the maximum salary they can claim. Migrant domestic workers are listed in the fourth category, in other words the lowest in the pay scale. Reforming the content of the circular will be more effective once more crucial reforms are achieved, such as including domestic workers within the labour law, lifting the need to get employers approval for migrant domestic workers to change jobs and agreeing on a unified contract that dismantles some of the key provisions of the Kafala system. WIF in any case is already working along those lines.

management_response:

No Action Planned

progress:

No implementation

admin_units:

DWT/CO-New Delhi

title:

In this area of work, WIF2 should consider initiating research and social dialogue on the proposal of Reform of Circular 1/9 in Lebanon, to critically review the potential benefits as well as the likelihood of negative consequences of this reform. This would enable WIF to highlight the challenges in formalizing occupational mobility and to spur a debate on alternative ways of addressing these.

project_symbols:

RAS/13/55/UKM

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/13274

information_source:

Regional Office

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