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Better Work Global – Phase IV - Final cluster evaluation

eval_number:

3191

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3191

location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

Better Work Global – Phase IV - Final cluster evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2023-01-16 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Programme sustainability

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action_plan:

"Better Work’s 2022-27 strategy reorientates the programme to address its sustainability challenges. The programme aims to do this by building stronger ownership over the change process with workers and employers at the enterprise level and increasing its alignment with the ILO’s efforts to build strong national institutions more capable of sustaining high levels of compliance as mentioned above. During the design of the new strategy, national constituents were at the centre of defining the programmes’ operational trajectory. However, the strategies to achieve this long-term vision differ depending on the context in each country. Critical differences include the stability of the country, economic development status, the size and relative importance of the apparel industry in the country, industrial relations climate, compliance and risk levels, requirements in existing trade agreements, external buyer presence, the motivation and interests of national stakeholders, and other factors. Another key variable affecting each Better Work country programme’s strategic approach is the ILO’s presence and priorities in each country as defined in its Decent Work Country Programmes. "

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

BETTERWORK

title:

Recommendation 3: Increase attention to sustainability of the programme, within its design, both in terms of its current results and in terms of continuation of its activities. The current evaluation did not find significant evidence that country-level stakeholders possess the capacity, ownership, resources, and willingness to take over factory services themselves if BW exits the country. Therefore, in most countries, the programme cannot end in future years without a concrete phasing-out strategy and related implementation plan.
Several actions can be taken to implement this recommendation:
- Integrate a clear sustainability dimension in the design of Phase V, which includes indicators for country maturity and pathways to phasing out for countries at different stages of maturity. Examples of how this can be approached are included in Annex 8.
- Already include preliminary sustainability considerations in new country programmes. This can ensure that a high level of dependency on BW is avoided, and stakeholders immediately build capacity to conduct factory-level services and other activities currently carried out by BW. See also the second Recommendation in the Mid-Term Evaluation of BW Global in this regard.
- Conduct country-level sustainability workshops to engage stakeholders in the sustainability of the programme. Identify the main gaps in the capacity of stakeholders and their needs for knowledge and other resources in order to take over the programme (i.e., embedding the activities in national / local labour systems). This can be aligned with the workshop suggested under the first recommendation.
- Strengthen linkages between constituents, brands / buyers, factories and other stakeholders, to continue and enhance collaboration without BW as intermediary.

project_symbols:

GLO/17/55/MUL

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/16570

information_source:

Country Office

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