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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:

Tripartism & constituent partnerships

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comments:

WIF will continue to work with both trade unions and civil society organisations that include migrant women.

action_plan:

The programme will continue to work with trade unions, worker collectives and civil and migrant right organizations in source and destination areas.

management_response:

Completed

progress:

Achieved

admin_units:

DWT/CO-New Delhi

title:

2. Continue the twin track approach working with tripartite partners and progressive civil society organisations that include migrant women and advance principles of women’s empowerment and gender equality in the contexts in which WIF and the ILO operate. WIF, at the behest of the FCDO, who wanted the programme to work directly with organisations representing migrant women workers, works to a greater extent with civil society organisations than the ILO usually does. It is clear that in working to mitigate the risks and vulnerabilities and improve the rights, protections and lives of women migrant workers that it is essential to work directly with structures that represent these women. Yet by and large, with the ILO’s tripartite mandate, it is less common for the ILO to work with labour representing organisations other than trade unions. In the Gulf, and in South Asian communities of origin, this is clearly inadequate as an approach. WIF should continue its work with TUs and leverage the example of the unions in Tamil Nadu as much as possible. FENASOL in Lebanon is willing, even if traditional and paternalistic in its approach. Nevertheless WIF should ideally look to provide a path to TU reform in the Middle East, and continue to engage with FENASOL on this,

project_symbols:

RAS/17/11/GBR

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/16689

information_source:

Regional Office

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