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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:

Planning and programme design

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comments:

WIF’s advocacy was directed at integrating a rights-based approach in the digital platform and not simply piloting the initiative. The Ministry was interested in developing a job matching platform for care national workers. Through WIF’s efforts, the Ministry accepted to integrate employment conditions in line with the national labour law and other international labour standards in particular ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2012 (No. 189). The care platform however is restricted to those who operate outside the sponsorship system.

action_plan:

The ILO will monitor the operation of a "care platform" and the degree to which the practice succeeds in framing a culture of decent work and trigger a discussion regarding part time work for migrant domestic workers.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

DWT/CO-New Delhi

title:

5. Continue efforts to pilot new approaches in Lebanon. A strength of the approach in Lebanon has been the efforts to use research to identify potential opportunities for new initiatives that will advance migrant worker rights and then to seek a way of establishing a pilot to test the opportunity. One recent opportunity identified based on the rising demand for part time workers, and the fact that officially only Lebanese and Syrian women can meet such demand, has been through the agreement reached with the Ministry of Labour to pilot an app where potential employers could post requests and find care workers to meet their needs. This would require employers to agree to certain terms and conditions for employment, with the potential to link this to migrant worker conditions too. The MoL has now been pressured by WIF to agree to the pilot and is why WIF should continue to seek to pilot such initiatives. A further idea suggested in a discussion with one member of the kafala working group was to work with General Security to pilot an initiative for migrant workers to be allowed to work part time. This pilot could be undertaken in different ways. There are kafeels that allow their worker to work for others, since it allows them to defray the costs for the person. Such a pilot would again be in line with the increasing demand for part time rather than full time workers, but opposition will come from recruitment agents and it would take a while to get the MoL on board. But it is the kind of initiative that is needed.

project_symbols:

RAS/17/11/GBR

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/16692

information_source:

Regional Office

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