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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:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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country:

Asia and the Pacific - regional

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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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:

Organizational issues

category:

Results-based management

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comments:

1. Both ILO and UN Women have been doing team building exercises and regular meetings with all Safe and Fair staff to discuss workloads and how to address workplace challenges. These efforts will continue. 2. Specifically, the following indicators will now read as: • Output 2.1.2. # of laws and policies on EVAW provided with technical support/inputs by UN Women ensuring integration of rights-based and survivor-centred approaches (in alignment with output 1.1) • Output 3.2.1 Percent of sex-disaggregated data produced by governments on labour migration statistics • Output 3.2.2 # of frontline service providers trained to safely collect and use VAWMWs data 3. The evaluation found that the original Output indicator 3.2.2 relied heavily on the political will of ASEAN countries; Safe and Fair is not in the position to influence such change. Thus the Output indicator has been revised. Revised Output indicator 3.2.2 will only be measured from 2021 onwards, and the endline survey will have to take note of this. 4. The Programme Management Team would like to caution that a “continuously changing Theory of Change development process” could render the programme design un-evaluable especially given the relatively short timeframe of the project. 5. This includes starting right away to look for donor funding that could support a continuation of the programme that would cover both the regional and country levels. Safe and Fair will also develop evidence-based action briefs as a base for new proposals.

action_plan:

1. Organize discussions with all staff to discuss challenges in the joint programming arrangements and identify ways forward 2. Modify the programme’s results framework by refining some output indicators 3. Discuss the existing ToC model for the programme with the relevant M&E specialists and explore possibilities of revision, as feasible. 4. Develop an exit strategy or a sustainability plan to guide the future of the programme and the sustainability of its results.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

RO-Asia and the Pacific

title:

Further strengthen the Safe and Fair Programme’s alignment with RBM good practices and improve the efficiency of joint programming arrangements. • Aligned with Conclusions #2 and #6 • Recommended timeline: August 1st 2021 – December 30th, 2022 • Medium urgency, low difficulty, medium impact • Directed to the Safe and Fair Regional Programming Team Rationale: By making relatively small adjustments to the Safe and Fair Programme’s results framework and joint working arrangements, the programme can significantly improve its results management and reporting as well as increase the sense of well being across its often over-worked staff. To operationalize this recommendation: • Organize a staff retreat or extended meeting exercise to reflect on the clarity of roles and responsibilities between ILO and UN Women staff to produce key insights and knowledge on how to further clarify these roles to avoid duplication. The exercise should also include a discussion around the degree of consultation and coordination that is truly necessary between ILO and UN Women staff to see if any adjustments in expectations could be made to further streamline the joint elements of the work. This should help to slightly relieve the workload of programming staff. • Modify the programme’s results framework by including impact indicators, identifying outcome indicators that the programme can realistically contribute towards, and refining some output indicators that are at too high of a level for the programme to be responsible for achieving (this includes Output 2.1.2.). The output indicators for Output 3.2.1 and 3.2.2 should also be adjusted to reflect the programme’s shift in focus towards capacitating stakeholders to use existing data on violence against women migrant workers due to the programming context and the challenges relating to collecting new data on violence against women migrant workers. • Develop a ToC model for the programme

project_symbols:

RAS/17/12/UND

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/15272

information_source:

Regional Office

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