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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:

India

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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country:

Nepal

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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country:

Jordan

region:

Arab States

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country:

Lebanon

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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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:

Organizational issues

category:

Monitoring and evaluation

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comments:

The programme applies a do no harm approach in developing and communicating messages. WIF has taken specific and comprehensive lessons to ensure it causes no harm. These measures have included reinforcing beneficiary feedback mechanisms. The programme is regularly analysing possible risks and documenting them though its lessons learned publications, and is cautious about neither preventing nor promoting migration. Furthermore, the programme has neither prescribed any standard training curriculum for outreach methods nor encouraging delivery partners to offload any standard information through a pre-identified supply driven process. Instead the programme sees outreach as a two-way or multiple-way communication process. For example, the social workers of community delivery partners are neither promoting nor discouraging migration. Instead, they are focusing on enabling access to local and outbound livelihood options. During this process, while some women decided not to migrate and managed to access local services, those who wanted to migrate were given information that could contribute to improve migration outcomes. During community outreach or trainings, the programme is communicating on regular types of abuses or disempowering situations. Instead of being prescriptive, the programme is communicating multiple ways to deal with abuses, most of which also have their limitations given asymmetries of power between employers and workers. Periodic reviews and regular monitoring visits both by ILO staff and partner management are confirming that the conveyed messages are unbiased. The programme will continue to ensure the same by conducting regular mentoring of staff, through structured training by technical partners like GAATW, and by paying special attention during technical support visits on the quality of engagement of social workers with work-age women. The intensive and continuous engagement process with vulnerable women and girls is making them aware of their rights and how to claim them, of the risks and vulnerabilities they may face; how and where to seek assistance; to encourage them to make contact with partners at destination; how to rely or not on informal and formal support networks. To avoid the risk of over-optimism and trust, the programme and its partners have remained vigilant and are critically monitoring that migration whether policies and practices have anticipated results and are effective in the specific migration pathways.

action_plan:

During the last two years, the TPRs have reported progress regarding ILO Conventions No 189 and No 190. Cross-cutting issues such as gender are comprehensively reported. Community intervention partners in source areas are in regular touch with migrant workers and their family members, but the purpose of this regular contact with migrant workers is neither to infer intervention effectiveness on the migration outcomes nor to review the extent to which programme participants made informed migration decisions. The partners data collection system is tracking the details of women referred for relevant and functional social protection and welfare schemes/services, vocational trainings etc. At the end of every quarter, the implementation partner is tracking and reporting, how many women referred, out of them how many benefited by the referral and value of resources mobilized as a result of such successful referrals. The programme is promoting referrals to such schemes/services, which are sensitive to the needs of target population.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

DWT/CO-New Delhi

title:

WIF’s monitoring systems will improve and contribute better to the lessons learnt by taking the following measures: o TPRs and annual reviews to report on the work done and progress made (or not made) relating to the relevant conventions of the ILO and the UN and on crosscutting issues like gender, social dialogue and tripartite processes. o Review the training programmes of implementing agencies to ensure that the messaging is unbiased, does not raise false expectations of support and includes critical analysis of bans rather than internalising them in the programme delivery. o Conduct follow up surveys of training participants and derive lessons from the trajectories of the women about recruitment processes and jobs and the effectiveness of referrals and linkages in terms of access to training and protection and promotion of livelihoods.

project_symbols:

RAS/13/55/UKM

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/13275

information_source:

Regional Office

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