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Sustainable supply chains to build forward better: Decent work in five global supply chains of key importance to the European Union for a fair, resilient, and sustainable COVID-19...- Final evaluation

eval_number:

3450

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3450

location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

Sustainable supply chains to build forward better: Decent work in five global supply chains of key importance to the European Union for a fair, resilient, and sustainable COVID-19...- Final evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2023-05-05 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Enterprises

category:

Global supply/value chains

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comments:

The SSCBFB project, its theory of change and intervention model were designed to be driven by the constituents of the ILO – namely governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations. Using supply chains as an entry point to advance decent work, interventions were designed to start upstream in the five supply chains. Specific country-level activities were defined and implemented in close collaboration with constituents and other key stakeholders in the five sectors and countries. As set out in the project document, interventions were expanded downstream and to the global level towards the end of the project. It is unfortunate that, because of the timing of the evaluation, the independent evaluator could not include these downstream activities in his evaluation of the project.

action_plan:

The project has successfully delivered all of the activities that were planned at the global level. This includes the publication of the so-called synthesis report, which summarizes research findings about decent work challenges and opportunities in the five supply chains, and makes these available to policy makers, constituents and other key stakeholders in the European Union and globally. It also includes the event entitled “Decent work in global supply chains”, which the project organized with the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment and the Dutch Social and Economic Council, which counted with the participation of about 200 stakeholders in the related supply chains. The project is organizing an event on decent work in supply chains with the European Commission in June 2023, which will engage constituents and other key supply chain stakeholders at the EU and global level. Moreover, the ILO has negotiated with the European Commission a follow-up up project in the amount of €700,000 for a period of one year. The new project, entitled “Supply Chains for a Sustainable Future of Work”, is implemented in three countries and supply chains targeted in the first project. It builds on the global and EU-facing activities of the SSCBFB project and places even greater emphasis on engaging constituents and key stakeholders in the EU and globally.

management_response:

Completed

progress:

Achieved

admin_units:

SECTOR

title:

1. ILO-SECTOR is recommended to move beyond the current country-focus in SSCBFB and consider a stronger international approach to address decent work challenges in global supply chains in a possible follow up project to the SSCBFB. This includes an increased focus on the EU and EU-stakeholders at the downstream level of the supply chains and also by securing a closer involvement of international and sector level employers’ and workers’ organisations. This approach should systematically consider ILO’s capacity to tackle problems and challenges with its national level constituent partners and with other partners that have leverage on international actors in global supply chains. And the international approach should generate more knowledge at the international supply chain level cutting crossing across countries and across and within sectors. Such an approach should be matched with available resources of the project: a. In case resources are more readily available, ILO could consider working in more supply chains with activities across countries; b. In case resources are limited, as would be the case if only the expected EC EaSI contribution will materialise, it is recommended to limit the choice of sectors, possibly to only one or two sectors, while maintain an international focus for activities, addressing up- and downstream challenges and also to allow for more exchange and joint learning of ILO and its tripartite partners across countries in the same supply chains.

project_symbols:

GLO/20/40/EUR

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/16848

information_source:

Head Quarters

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