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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:

Conditions of work & equality

category:

Vulnerable groups

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comments:

In its programming, the WIF programme has been informed by the core principles of human rights-based programming, accountability to affected populations and regularly reviewed intended/unintended consequences of interventions, normative standards etc.,.

action_plan:

The programme is continuing to promote solidarity between local workers and migrant workers, and would continue to provide avenues for social connectedness among the migrant workers, e.g. through workers centre, by organizing migrant workers abroad, by promoting trade unions to have migrant workers in their unions etc.,.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

DWT/CO-New Delhi

title:

6. Build on the solidarity principle in origin and destination contexts to promote human security (freedom from fear, freedom from want and freedom to live in dignity) of all domestic care and garment workers. The initiative referenced above is an example of the solidarity principle within a human security framework, in that it seeks to align the interests of national (and Syrian) domestic carers and migrant workers performing the same role in Lebanon. In the earlier conceptual framework section, the importance of the solidarity principle, and together with that, that of Common Security (and inclusion) – that one group can typically only be secure if the groups with whom it is significantly connected are secure too. For migrant workers, to advance the solidarity principle there are three key requirements: o Decommodification of MWs requires them to be seen as workers not migrants o Seeking to unify initiatives for decent work across national and migrant workers in a sector o (Re-)Integration of MWs into sending/ receiving communities Examples of each of these from WIF’s experience are illustrated in the diagram below. With its focus too on agency (and therefore empowerment), we recommend that WIF uses this human security framework more since it encompasses the core elements of WIF’s approach in a coherent way and in particular that WIF develop this solidarity element further. It is a way of promoting the rights and protections of women migrant workers in a time of economic downtown. The digital app is one potential initiative in Lebanon, but otherwise would involve more cross over initiatives between ARM and the migrant worker CSOs it is capacity building and more conventional women’s organisations in the country. In Jordan, it requires looking for openings to being the Jordanian government around to seeing migrant workers not as a threat but a support to the country’s economy.

project_symbols:

RAS/17/11/GBR

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/16693

information_source:

Regional Office

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