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EU-MPTF Spotlight Initiative ILO-UNW JP "Safe and Fair: Realizing women migrant workers' right and opportunities in the ASEAN region" - Final evaluation

eval_number:

2829

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2829

location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

EU-MPTF Spotlight Initiative ILO-UNW JP "Safe and Fair: Realizing women migrant workers' right and opportunities in the ASEAN region" - Final evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2024-05-16 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Tripartism & constituent partnerships

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comments:

The Regional Management Team concurs on the importance of increased investment to support social norms work, especially as it requires long term investment and sustained efforts. While changes in social norms take time, integrating approaches to eliminate harmful attitudes, practices and norms related to the acceptability of violence and the need to hold perpetrators accountable with partners is central to reaching these longer term aims.

action_plan:

• Share information and advocate with donors on the importance and potential benefits of including social norms work into EVAW and labour migration programming as part of advocacy efforts to strengthen donor investment in social norms work that promotes GEEW. • Use information-sharing sessions on safe labour migration practices in migrant worker communities as an entry point to bring women and men together to discuss gender equality concepts including ending VAWG-IPV . • Increase investment in changing attitudes towards the acceptance of violence and WMWs, promoting gender equality concepts and creating safe workplaces without violence and harassment among labour migration government officials, unions, employers organizations and potential perpetrators of violence.

management_response:

Completed

progress:

Achieved

admin_units:

RO-Asia and the Pacific

title:

Recommendation #2: Advocate for increased investment among donors to support social norms work to end violence against women when designing labour migration and EVAW programming to further address the root causes of violence against women.  Aligned with Conclusion #3  Recommended timeline: 1 January 2024 – no end date  High urgency, medium difficulty, high impact  Directed to ILO and UN Women senior staff Rationale: In order to address the root causes of VAW which stem from beliefs that women are inferior to men, future labour migration and EVAW programming should include a stronger focus on changing social norms both at the community level and across actors who interact with WMWs throughout their labour migration journey. To operationalize this recommendation: • Share information with donors on the importance and potential benefits of including social norms work into EVAW and labour migration programming as part of advocacy efforts to strengthen donor investment in social norms work that promotes GEEW. This investment should include sufficient financial resources as well as targeted efforts to design and implement strong social norms measurement tools. • Use information-sharing sessions on safe labour migration practices in migrant worker communities as an entry point to bring women and men together to discuss gender equality concepts including ending IPV. • Increase investment in changing attitudes towards WMWs and promoting gender equality concepts among government officials, first responders, service providers, youth groups, and potential perpetrators of violence. Greater investment may involve devoting more human resources at regional and national levels, as well as support to partners and investment in activities.

project_symbols:

RAS/17/12/UND

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/1680763

information_source:

Regional Office

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