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EU-MPTF Spotlight Initiative ILO-UNW JP "Safe and Fair: Realizing women migrant workers' right and opportunities in the ASEAN region" - Midterm evaluation

eval_number:

2828

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2828

location:

country:

Asia and the Pacific - regional

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

EU-MPTF Spotlight Initiative ILO-UNW JP "Safe and Fair: Realizing women migrant workers' right and opportunities in the ASEAN region" - Midterm evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2021-09-16 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Conditions of work & equality

category:

Migration

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comments:

The existing online document repository will be made more user-friendly and accessible. Safe and Fair has already been organising cross-border and multi-country discussions starting in the fourth quarter of 2020. These moderated discussions complement ongoing cross-border exchanges and dialogues (Migrant Worker Resource Centres (MRCs), embassies, CSO networks, frontline service providers). Members of the NPAC include governments, workers’ and employers’ organizations and CSOs. In the webinars being organized (Point 2), all stakeholders are invited to some webinars and there will be targeted webinar for specific stakeholders depending on the topic of the webinar. Safe and Fair is also supporting the gender and labour migration law review activity of ASEAN Committee on Migrant Workers (ACMW) which would further help in identifying areas of policy harmonisation within ASEAN.

action_plan:

1. Translate and actively share the knowledge products produced by the programme with all relevant stakeholders including through strengthening the online document repository and ensuring materials are uploaded on COSI 2. Organize online cross-border knowledge exchange events (webinars) to discuss specific technical issues such as domestic workers rights, reducing costs of migration, using technology for service delivery, training on hotline responders and strengthen referral systems on violence among others 3. Organize online thematic events (webinars) among NPAC members to share knowledge and experiences on specific issues 4. Continue with the research studies in the pipeline and disseminate and discuss these thematic priorities ● standard employment contracts focusing on domestic work; ● experiences of violence among women migrant workers; ● conditions of women migrant workers in the manufacturing sectors; ● research on women migrant workers' help seeking behaviours; ● perceptions and attitudes towards LGBTQI+ migrants and linkages with exploitation and violence – SOGI identity and implications for labour migrants 5. Ongoing technical support to governments and/or ASEAN on draft policy, accountability tools and legislation that aim to prevent and respond to violence against women migrant workers and trafficking

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

RO-Asia and the Pacific

title:

Strengthen the regional dimensions of the programme. Rationale: Further leveraging the Safe and Fair Programme’s regional elements will facilitate the programme in better supporting women migrant workers across their migration journey by helping key stakeholders, including service providers, to learn from and network with each other to provide more coherent and coordinated services across origin and destination countries. To operationalize this recommendation: • Enhance knowledge exchange between stakeholders from across origin and destination countries and actively share the knowledge products produced by the programme by creating an easily accessible public online document repository and informing stakeholders on to how to access the documentation. • Facilitate knowledge exchange between stakeholders from across origin and destination countries by organizing online knowledge exchange events that bring together stakeholders from similar groups or with similar interests to promote cooperation and strengthen referral systems. This should be integrated within the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative’s knowledge management structure to the greatest extent possible. • Promote information-exchange and networking between NPACs across countries by organizing thematic events among NPAC members to share knowledge and experiences on specific issues. • Continue to research and share information on the needs of women migrant workers across their migration journey and the services that are available to women migrant workers in both origin and destination countries. • Continue working on and promoting labour migration policy harmonization across ASEAN countries while acknowledging that policy harmonization is a large-scale and long-term goal that the programme can contribute towards. • Ensure that any subsequent programme phases continue to leverage the added value of the regional dimensions of the programme.

project_symbols:

RAS/17/12/UND

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/15268

information_source:

Regional Office

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