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Improving labour relations for decent work and sustainable development in the Myanmar garment industry - Final evaluation

eval_number:

2584

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2584

location:

country:

Myanmar

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Improving labour relations for decent work and sustainable development in the Myanmar garment industry - Final evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2020-09-01 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Governance and Tripartism

category:

Labour relations

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comments:

The Works under GIP project is seen as imbalance advocacy on social dialogue and industrial relations. Bias to workers does not help the Office very much in trying to mobilize employers' attention and actions in building sound industrial relations. It did not help further with the fact that employers inclined to reject changes toward better governance. The observation of the Office suggests that this is due to the lack of exposure to modern practice of industrial relations, and the lack of concrete vision of the employers group. The conservative camp in the UMFCCI is holding the management fort at the moment. The Office will make the best use of COVID 19 incident to display how important it is for bipartite establishment to continue using dialogue to plan to overcome the crisis, and without dialogue it would only create more disputes than civil settlement.

action_plan:

The ILO brings the importance of this issue into the UN SERF plan in response to COVID 19. Through that channel the ILO continue to promote social cohesion through the already existing platform of social dialogues and encourage the UN partners toward acceptance of social partners' views and concern in policy formulation / influence in response to COVID 19.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

ILO-Yangon

title:

1) Continue activities on improving labour relations, social dialogue and gender equality as this is no less relevant now than it was at the design stages of the ILO-GIP project and try to combine this with emergency bridging programmes to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 crisis for the (laid-off) workers and for the factories as has been proposed by some of the social partners and as currently is being developed jointly by GIZ and ILO-GIP, while other donors have also expressed interest in such programmes. As the ILO Director-General Guy Ryder recently stated: “Workers and businesses are facing catastrophe, in both developed and developing economies. We have to move fast, decisively, and together. The right, urgent, measures, could make the difference between survival and collapse

project_symbols:

MMR/16/01/MUL

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/14468

information_source:

Country Office

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