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Fair migration in the Middle East (FAIRWAY) - Final Evaluation

eval_number:

2523

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2523

location:

country:

Arab States - regional

region:

Arab States

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eval_title:

Fair migration in the Middle East (FAIRWAY) - Final Evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2020-07-22 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Monitoring and evaluation

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action_plan:

There are presently a number of projects addressing various aspects of labour migration operating in the Middle East (FAIR, REFRAME, WiF, FAIRWAY, the ILO-Qatar project, and BETTERWORK and the Workers’ Centre in Jordan). Some of these projects (e.g. REFRAME and the Qatar project) are fairly recent, and the WiF project is likely to increase its engagement in the region. As such, there is a need to allow more time before embarking on a thematic evaluation. An evaluation/strategy paper would best be conducted in 2-3 years.

management_response:

Action not yet taken

progress:

No implementation

admin_units:

RO-Arab States/DWT-Beirut

title:

Consider conducting a thematic evaluation/ strategy paper covering all labour migration projects in ROAS. The previous thematic evaluation of the migration portfolio was conducted globally, by the ILO HQ, in 2013. Given the growing importance of the issues related to labour migration, increased migration flows from Africa, the growing number of ILO projects in the region, and the need to collaborate with other regional and country offices of ILO, the thematic evaluation/ strategy paper could address, among others, the following issues: • Consider all good practices and lessons from migration-related projects in the region and globally, especially including the Asian and African regions which are the predominant origin countries of migrant workers to the Middle East; • Consider strategic issues, such as the competition and practical areas for collaboration between TUs and CSOs, and an ILO strategy on how to bring them closer in order to achieve an effective migrant workers’ representation in the Arab States, where migrant workers capacity to organize is limited, weak or non-existent; • Consider and analyse the benefit and challenges of the projects’ sectoral approach towards labour migration in a segmented labour market, as well as potential competition of migrant workers and refugees in specific sectors in the different national contexts and room for coordination among labour migration, and Syrian crisis-related projects in the region; • Design a clear and coherent theory of change leading to intermediary and long-term outcomes. The TOC developed could then be connected to the logical framework of all new migration projects of the ROAS. This would enable better coordination among ILO projects about MWs and/or refugees as also better coordination among countries of origin and destination. The thematic evaluation may be timed as per the assessment of ILO-ROAS about the readiness for the exercise.

project_symbols:

RAB/15/03/CHE

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/13612

information_source:

Regional Office

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