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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:

Planning and programme design

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comments:

The Regional Management Team recognizes the importance of regional joint programmes with strong components of cross border work on issues such as labour migration, gender mainstreaming and EVAWG. Depending on the country and location of implementation of activities and within the organisational mandates of each agency, there are varying levels of delegation to national offices. However, irrespective of the level of delegation of authority, national teams and constituents are always fully engaged in planning and implementation of activities and this will be continued.

action_plan:

• UN agencies should jointly plan, report, and have ownership over all programming results regardless of which agency is leading certain programming elements. Further engage and empower Country Office Representatives across programming countries to take a leadership role in fostering national-level stakeholder engagement and buy-in among programme stakeholders. • Hire sufficient staff (ideally one representative from each UN agency) to support programming at the national level. • Strengthen the strategic engagement of RCs as programming partners to facilitate greater programming collaboration with other UN agencies working across the region and to generate strengthened cross-border collaboration. • Harness opportunities to expand each agency’s partnership base by effectively sharing partners and directly engaging with the other agency’s traditional partners. Collaborations through joint events enable opportunities to connect partners and networks. • Further invest in the capacity of staff working at the regional level to develop regional-level synergies and foster cross-border collaboration among governments, service providers, and CSOs. • Increase and scale-up opportunities for stakeholders from across countries to meet both virtually and in-person to strengthen their working relationships with the aim of generating increased cross-border collaboration and synergies. • Include outputs in programming frameworks that reflect collaboration with other UN agencies across the region in an attempt to increase collaboration and generate synergies across UN programming. Specifically, generate outputs that capture efforts to increase the gender responsiveness of other UN labour migration programming across the region. • Strengthen the collaboration between UN Women, ILO, and the UNODC by further engaging the UNODC in future EVAW and labour migration work and by providing funding to UNODC to execute programming activities

management_response:

Completed

progress:

Achieved

admin_units:

RO-Asia and the Pacific

title:

Recommendation #7: Ensure that future regional joint programming on EVAW and labour migration is designed cohesively, empowers national-level leadership, encourages regional level cross-border work, and leverages potential synergies with other UN programming. • Aligned with Conclusion #6 • Recommended timeline: 1 January 2024 – no end date • High urgency, high difficulty, high impact • Directed to ILO, UN Women, and UNODC senior staff. Rationale: To fully align with UN Reform principles and promote cohesive programming, joint programming should be designed holistically with UN agencies fully engaged across programming elements. It should also empower national-level leadership and generate synergies with other UN programming. The regional element of a regional programme particularly requires investment to generate regional synergies and promote cross-border work.

project_symbols:

RAS/17/12/UND

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/1680788

information_source:

Regional Office

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