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Enhancing Social Protection for Female Tea Garden Workers and Their Families in Sylhet Division, Bangladesh - Joint evaluation

eval_number:

3479

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3479

location:

country:

Bangladesh

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Enhancing Social Protection for Female Tea Garden Workers and Their Families in Sylhet Division, Bangladesh - Joint evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2023-01-08 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Programme sustainability

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comments:

Tea Garden sector related work need to be continued to be highlighted by UN system in Bangladesh for developing new approaches to address some of the shortcomings in the sector. The overall response/reform will need to go beyond social protection and working conditions issues and look into the broader modernisation of the sector.

action_plan:

5.1 BTA and BCSU are continuing their advocacy initiatives with relevant govt. department for reviewing the beneficiaries selection criteria to make more accessible and flexible for social protection services. 5.2 ILO is mobilising resources from interested IFIs and DPs to continuing the initiatives. ILO has also integrated its current ProGRESS project funded by Global Affairs Canada to target tea garden communities 5.3 ILO along with other three UN agencies (UNICEF, UNFPA and UN Women) organized lesson learnt workshop and shared the handover process of the UN SDG joint program with the key stakeholders.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

RO-Asia and the Pacific

title:

5.1. Strengthen the social protection services and other relevant services more accessible and flexible beneficiaries selection criterias for tea communities by mandated ministries, departments and employers (BTA).
5.2. Mobilizing funds for the program's continuation should be ensured for at least 5-6 years. 5.3. A proper handover process should be ensured while phasing such a program. The handover process should include the participation of donors, implementers, BTA, BCSU, Panchayet members, and tea garden workers, where a specific post-program work plan can be constructed with the data-driven informed-decision regarding the distribution of different roles and responsibilities among these stakeholders in the short term and long term. The handover process can be done through different activities such as seminars, signing of MoU, and construction shared work plans.

project_symbols:

BGD/19/51/UND

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/16432

information_source:

Country Office

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