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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:

Organizational issues

category:

Programme implementation

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comments:

The concept to places decent and human-centered approaches as cornerstone of the future of industrialization will require the government vision, understanding and commitment. In Ethiopia the focus was on garment sector - as a sector commitment, and not just brand's commitment. In Myanmar it is likely to see the rift between local and international investors and the Office will play a critical role to present this rift to aggravate further. Tripartite Social dialogue platform already exists in Myanmar, the ILO tried to facilitates dialogue among multiple stakeholders in developing common vision and strategies to have Myanmar another Asian hub of socially responsible production of garment for both global and domestic market. BUT, the as suggested earlier, the rift between stakeholders exist and international and local enterprises are not talking together spontaneously - and it might be due to the lacl of vision, and trust. In many way, the Office has helped the constituents to use the tripartite platform to fix standards issues such as minimum wage, OSH, child labour discussion, working conditions, etc. However, the ILO in Myanmar does not have specific programme to help enhancing the capacity of government institution to prevent and resolve labour dispute, nor is the ILO in MM has a programme to assist the government at the regional and sectorial level to improve labour administration in strengthening the capacity of its inspectors. Coming out from dictatorship only few years back, the Government remains in control of their ruling power, and the project hat would intervene in their business would unlikely accepted by them. The office continues plays a role in establishing sustainable and inclusive compliance system for Myanmar, whilst realizing also that conservative employers continued to see compliances as trade barriers and not a tool to leap up to international market. the lack of interest on the part of the government and employers will be key to overcome before the programme such as this One approach could be implemented in Myanmar.

action_plan:

ILO planned to bring the constituents together in balance fashion to address comparative advantage in productivity and social cohesion. This remains consistently in the ILO long term plan. The factors to success will not depend on the ILO alone, but the vision of employers and Government to see the importance of social dialogue, human-centre development, and not simply immediate financial profit. The advocacy continues in Myanmar from the management to remind the constituents on experience learnt from other countries as well as the lesson learnt of their own practice.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

ILO-Yangon

title:

4) Enhance cooperation between ILO and other interventions in particular through the proposed One ILO Approach, which has been tried and tested in Ethiopia.

project_symbols:

MMR/16/01/MUL

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/14471

information_source:

Country Office

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