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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:

Asia and the Pacific - regional

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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country:

Americas - regional

region:

Americas

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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:

Planning and programme design

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comments:

Fully agree. The Safe and Fair project allocates a significant amount of funds to support MRCs in eight ASEAN member states, including all six TRIANGLE priority countries. Given Safe and Fair’s (S&F) specific focus on women migrant workers, MRC approaches and objectives differs somewhat between the two projects. Nevertheless, it is clear that the two projects need to coordinate closely to ensure that existing MRC capacity is maximised and sustained and suitable services provided. This can be done through a combination of the following: - TRIANGLE fully phases out a few MRCs to S&F; - S&F adds specific services/capacity to TRIANGLE MRCs (such as staff dedicated to do outreach services); and/or - S&F sets up new MRCs in addition to those already supported by TRIANGLE. Within these different options, it is very important to consider (a) donor branding; and (b) solid reporting mechanisms (i.e. how the reporting between the two projects of the number of beneficiaries and financial compensation awarded by MRCs will be managed). In identifying its MRC partners, S&F is conducting mapping exercises in each of the eight countries to map existing and potential MRC partners and identify needs for further capacity building. While some of these mapping exercises have been completed, some are still ongoing. Based on these, decisions have been made for Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand as follows: - Lao PDR: TRIANGLE currently supports four MRCs, two implemented by the Lao Federation of Trade Unions and two by the Ministry of Labour. S&F will take over three of these MRCs (all except the LFTU MRC in Luang Prabang) from Aug/Sept 2019. - Malaysia: TRIANGLE will phase out the MRC work with Tenaganita. The MRC work with MTUC will be shared with S&F. - Myanmar: Following request from the ministry, S&F has decided to establish four new MRCs in Myanmar. In addition, S&F will supplement two of TRIANLGE’s MRCs (Taunggyi and Dawai) with a gender consultant that can do outreach. - Thailand: No implications for TRIANGLE. The above proposals for Lao PDR and Myanmar would result in cost-savings (for Lao PDR), but not have any noticeable impact on the overall numbers of clients as the clients in the Lao MRCs are significantly lower than other countries. For Myanmar, the S&F would report on the outreach only, so this proposal would not have any impact on TRIANGLE numbers. For Malaysia, the phase-out of Tenaganita would result in a significant cost-saving while the beneficiary numbers will only be slightly reduced (Tenaganita has a very high client/cost ratio).

action_plan:

Action undertaken in response to the recommendation to date: • Agreements with S&F have been reached for Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand. Further action to undertake: • Further discussions with S&F needs to be held for Cambodia and Viet Nam.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

RO-Asia and the Pacific

title:

Explore the design of ways forward for the MRC Network in terms of sustainability including cooperating closely with the Safe and Fair programme, whereby particular attention is needed for the way the government funding is being used, and in how far that can also be an option for those MRCs currently organized by either NGOs or Trade Unions.

project_symbols:

RAS/15/05/AUS

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/13498

information_source:

Regional Office

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