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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:

Organizational issues

category:

Programme implementation

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action_plan:

The Office agrees broadly with the recommendation to strengthen the interregional dimensions of the project. However, the Office notes that in recent years, it has already supported the development of the African Union Guidelines on Bilateral Labour Agreements and IGAD Regional Guidelines on Rights Based Bilateral Labour Agreements, in addition to co-leading the development of the UN Global Guidance on Bilateral Labour Migration Agreements. These guidance documents, developed with tripartite participation and grounded in ILO and other UN instruments, provide clear advice to countries in Africa and beyond for the development, negotiation and implementation of BLAs, and will be drawn on as relevant when providing country specific advisory services.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

MIGRANT

title:

Strengthening the Inter-Regional Dimensions. Strengthening the inter-regional dimensions including the Pan-African collaboration through the AUC, so that Arab States acknowledge they need to engage with African countries to a greater extent, and the latter are organized and willing to collaborate together to increase their chances of securing legally back agreements to protect and enforce migrant labour rights. This includes on the one hand working with other ILO projects to develop a common protocol and advisory guidelines for countries at AUC level for BLAs for instance, and on the other hand then working with specific countries to support their BLA negotiations. Implementation of such protocols is also undermined by the lack of consular presence of African countries in many Gulf states. How BLAs are monitored is thus one of their more important components, and this may require a wider AUC role in supporting this. Other elements of this work are the links between African and Arab States trade unions and employers associations, and this also needs to be strengthened and developed further as a component. Altogether, since this inter-regional work has multiple components, and involves a complex range of organisations, and indeed personnel and teams within the ILO, it requires a more strategic and coordinated approach across the organisation.

project_symbols:

GLO/19/06/CHE

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/16671

information_source:

Regional Office

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