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Promoting social dialogue and harmonious industrial relations in Bangladesh ready-made garment industry - Final Evaluation

eval_number:

2509

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2509

location:

country:

Bangladesh

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Promoting social dialogue and harmonious industrial relations in Bangladesh ready-made garment industry - Final Evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2023-11-13 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Conditions of work & equality

category:

Gender equality

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comments:

"To drive the WRC towards self-sustainability and resilience, a new Implementation Agreement (IA) is in the process of been concluded between the ILO and WRC. This collaboration aspires to accomplish key milestones that include: 1. Empowering young and female trade union leaders: The agreement aims to elevate awareness and knowledge amongst young and female leaders within trade unions, focusing on nuances of industrial relations, management, leadership proficiency, and inclusion of gender-related matters. 2. Enhancing capacity and awareness of union members and leaders: The objective is to augment the understanding and capability of young and female trade union members and leaders regarding the roles of trade unions, leadership dynamics, and influencing the agenda. 3. Promoting inclusive participation in policy dialogues: The collaboration seeks to amplify the involvement and contributions of trade unions, especially from women and youth, in platforms designated for policy discussions and dialogues. To operationalize these goals, the LAWC cluster will collaborate with the existing 29 WRC paralegal pools and endeavour to cultivate an additional pool of 25 paralegals, ensuring a 40% female representation. This renewed support also envisages the establishment of a labour rights-centric platform for domestic workers within the WRC framework. Furthermore, the WRC Women Committee will receive support in structuring anti-harassment committees and strengthening their activities aimed at mitigating violence and harassment in the professional environment. This initiative will span at least 50 unionized enterprises across diverse sectors, focusing on refining the Sustainability Strategy (2021-2026) of WRC to address and prevent harassment effectively."

action_plan:

As an action plan the following activities are aimed at supporting the WRC: 3.2.3 Refresher training for existing (29) WRC paralegal pools 3.2.4 Develop new pool of 25 paralegals (40% female) 3.2.5 Develop video documentary on paralegal activities 3.2.7 Support to the establishment of rights-based platform for domestic workers at WRC 3.2.8 WRC Women Committee supports the formation of anti-harassment committee and strengthen committee’s activities for reducing violence and harassment at the world of work for at least 50 unionized enterprises from different sectors 3.2.10 Capacity development of NCCWE women committees on basic policy advocacy and functioning 3.2.11 Support to the NCCWE to develop gender policy concerned 3.2.13 Support to WRC to revisit its Sustainability Strategy (2021-2026)"

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

CO-Dhaka

title:

Recommendation 3. ILO should continue to support WRC, including the Women Committee in its quest for more self-reliance and sustainability, including working with the Paralegals.

project_symbols:

BGD/15/03/MUL

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/16700

information_source:

Country Office

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