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TRIANGLE in ASEAN: Safe and Fair Labour Migration - Midterm Cluster Evaluation

eval_number:

2519

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2519

location:

country:

Americas - regional

region:

Americas

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country:

Asia and the Pacific - regional

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

TRIANGLE in ASEAN: Safe and Fair Labour Migration - Midterm Cluster Evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2019-07-19 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Tripartism & constituent partnerships

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comments:

Workers and employers organisations are important partners and stakeholders of TRIANGLE in ASEAN and significant efforts and resources are allocated to increasing their capacity at both regional and national level. This work in done in very close collaboration with the workers and exmployers specialists. However, TRIANGLE management also acknowledge that there has been some delays in some regional activities and that at the national level, the involvement of employers’ organisations can be further strengthened where joint priorities can be identified. At the regional level, our support to ATUC is quite significant and formalized in a 24 month implementation agreement with a budget of USD 171,500. TRIANGLE has also earmarked USD 150,000 in support to the ACE resource platform and other regional ACE activities. While the ATUC work plan is moving forward more or less in line with plan, the establishment of the ACE resource platform has been delayed, caused by disagreements between the ACE members on the format of the resource platform, and where it shall be housed. These issues have now been resolved and it is expected that the platform will go live by the end of 2019. TRIANGLE management also acknowledge that there was a delay in the conduct of the 2nd ATUC/ACE regional dialogue. While originally scheduled for 2018 (supposed to be held every two years), various circumstances partially beyond the control of TRIANGLE, lead to it being postponed to May 2019. Further, every year, TRIANGLE also supports some 28 representatives from national and regional workers and employers organisations to participate in AFML, including the conduct of half-day separate Workers and Employers preparatory meetings. At the national level, and consistent with the ILO tripartite nature, workers and employers are consistently invited to all meetings and workshops, with the aim to ensure that they are properly consulted and given opportunity to voice the perspectives of their members. Trade unions are also important implementing partners of migrant workers resource centres (MRCs) and outreach services in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand. In Viet Nam, while not providing traditional MRC/outreach services, TRIANGLE has supported the development of an MOU on the protection of Vietnamese migrant workers in Malaysia between VGCL and the leading trade union partner in Malaysia (MTUC).

action_plan:

Action undertaken in response to the recommendation to date: • The second ATUC/ACE regional dialogue was held 4-5 April 2019 in Manila, the Philippines. • Some progress has also been made as concerns the ACE resource platform. During an ACE board meeting held in April 2019, ACE members finally agreed to the format and housing arrangements of the resource platform. In a meeting with TRIANGLE 7 May 2019, the Employers’ Confederation of Thailand (ECOT), as the new ACE Secretariat for 2019-2020, committed to submitting a proposal to TRIANGLE covering the operationalization of the resource platform. This proposal is now almost finalised, just awaiting final confirmation on the budget. Further action to undertake: • Continue to support ATUC in line with implementation agreement. • Intensify support to ACE resource platform with the aim of it being live by latter half of 2019. • Continue to support workers and employers organizations to participate in AFML and support their preparatory meetings. • Continue to support trade unions at the national level to operate MRCs and outreach services to migrant workers etc. in line with current activities. • Explore how to increase support to national employers’ organisations.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

RO-Asia and the Pacific

title:

Involve more pro-actively the employers’ and workers’ organisations (EO/WO). This applies in particular to those EO/WO at the national level who sometimes have the impression that TRIANGLE is more about Governments and NGOs. This is a two-way street of course, and for example labour migration issues are not at the top of the agenda of the EO, and therefore ways should be explored to enhance their engagement through exchanges with and the engagement of the employers’ expert in ROAP. At the regional level, attention should be increased by giving priority to supporting ACE’s Enterprise Resources Centre, ATUC’s Youth and Women Committee and the ACE/ATUC dialogue meeting within the coming months. In addition to the contacts ACE and ATUC have with the DWT experts, they also appreciate direct relations with the project team.

project_symbols:

RAS/15/05/AUS

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/13491

information_source:

Regional Office

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