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South East Asia regional programme for labour migration in the fishing sector - Midterm evaluation

eval_number:

3297

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3297

location:

country:

Asia and the Pacific - regional

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

South East Asia regional programme for labour migration in the fishing sector - Midterm evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2023-07-09 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Sector

category:

Fishing

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action_plan:

The Ship to Shore Rights SEA programme conducted a theory of change workshop with the labour inspectorate in 2022, which highlighted problems with a denial of the scale of violations occurring in the fishing and seafood processing sectors. There was an acknowledgement of the many institutional challenges faced by labour inspectors to effectively identify and respond to labour rights violations. To follow-up on this issue, the Ship to Shore Rights SEA programme is planning to conduct an assessment of the challenges faced by labour inspectors engaged in Port-in Port-out centers to improve the identification of labour rights violation. The study will be conducted in Q3 of 2023. A pilot project in Ranong was kicked off in March 2023 with one of its objectives to improve collaboration between government inspectors, CSOs and worker organizations. It has been agreed that regular meetings will be held between the Fishers’ Rights Network (FRN) and PIPO officials to provide information and support, as well as access for FRN to observe the inspections.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

RO-Asia and the Pacific

title:

Thailand: Focus on engaging the central authorities to push for a change in culture on acknowledging that violations occur in the industry and pushing for more enforcement action to happen. Where there are different levels of enforcement coming from different PIPOs, conduct more research to understand why this is the case and what are the barriers that labour inspectors face in some locations which are not present in others. Continue to push for the greater engagement of NGOs and CSOs in the inspection process, allowing them to be present as much as possible when inspections happen.

project_symbols:

RAS/20/01/EUR

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/16811

information_source:

Regional Office

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