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ILO-DFID Partnership Programme on Fair Recruitment and Decent Work for Women Migrant Workers in South Asia and the Middle East -Phase II - Midterm evaluation

eval_number:

2868

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2868

location:

country:

Asia and the Pacific - regional

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

ILO-DFID Partnership Programme on Fair Recruitment and Decent Work for Women Migrant Workers in South Asia and the Middle East -Phase II - Midterm evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2024-08-16 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Programme implementation

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comments:

There are two angles to this recommendation. One applies to external stakeholders interested in preventing forced labour and human trafficking and the second one applies to the ILO. In response to external parties, WIF is doing as much as it can to disseminate the findings, research and lessons as can be attested in multi-stakeholder dissemination events organized in Geneva and at least three other programme countries. As for ILO adopting a programmatic approach inspired on WIF, there are many learnings that can inform its future programming, however the main one is about ensuring that responses to forced labour and human trafficking are not limited to informing migrants about their rights and building accountability in recruitment practices, but more importantly to address vulnerability to forced labour through a right based holistic approach. WIF has conducted internal dissemination events to share the lessons and findings of WIF among programme staff, specialists and management and hopes that such approaches will be taken forward in a future without WIF. As a start, the care work related projects in Bangladesh and Lebanon s have built at least in part on the lessons emerging from WIF.

action_plan:

WIF to make available all its learnings and publications online. During the remainder of this phase, the programme to continue provide inputs and influence strategic documents of the office, complete the dissemination events as planned.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

DWT/CO-New Delhi

title:

1. Adopting a programmatic approach and promoting the legacy of Work in Freedom. The evolution undertaken by the Work in Freedom programme during its 10 year life span has been quite remarkable. When then first EA was undertaken in 2014, the approaches that WIF was using in countries of origin were didactic, disempowering and ineffective. Since then the programme has built new strategic partnerships with women’s organisations in South Asia, changed completely it’s outlook and philosophy, and generated orientation approaches that are both empowering of women and expand their knowledge and possible options. Now what is necessary is to build a longer-term commitment to these ground-breaking approaches, turning them into models and deploying them in a 10-15 year programme framework to ramp up the scale of impact.

project_symbols:

RAS/17/11/GBR

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/16688

information_source:

Regional Office

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