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FAIRWAY Program - Midterm evaluation

eval_number:

3439

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3439

location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

FAIRWAY Program - Midterm evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2023-02-23 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Conditions of work & equality

category:

Migration

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action_plan:

The Office agrees with this recommendation, and continues to work closely with trade unions and civil society organisations, and other public and private sector actors as relevant to build solidarity, notably through increased and diversified interactions between migrant workers and nationals.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

MIGRANT

title:

Promoting the Principle of Solidarity. This is referred to with respect to the recommended change to Outcome 3, but this is also a stand alone recommendation. The need to bridge the barriers between migrant workers and nationals is important in both countries of origin and destination and some of the more interesting experimental work of FAIRWAY in countries of destination is around this. With respect to the conservative and patriarchal trade unions, the ILO regional workers specialist noted that ‘we need to create new areas where migrants and nationals can interact on a more equal basis’.

There is certainly a good case to make that the overcoming of the divides to treat migrant workers as workers rather than migrants, and in so doing to humanise them as well, is dependent on more interaction of the type facilitated by en.v in Kuwait, and the early inter-regional TU exchanges, and involvement of migrant workers in these. Further ideas are needed for promoting greater levels of solidarity in African contexts too. Some of these could be activities facilitated by migrant resource centres, and the TUs that cover domestic and hospitality work, to promote more solidarity between local and migrant workers, and an understanding that their workers’ rights and protection issues should be treated equally, and this should be reflected in the way protocols are established and implemented.

The importance of the Kuwaiti initiatives of en.v here is their demonstrating that being creative in regard of promoting this principle, can break down longstanding barriers of perception and lead to surprising outcomes. We recommend that the programme continue to work with local partners to explore multiple ways to be creative and innovative in building bridges and opening up opportunities to forge forms of solidarity.

project_symbols:

GLO/19/06/CHE

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/16670

information_source:

Regional Office

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