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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:

Organizational issues

category:

Programme implementation

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comments:

The first part of this recommendation was an integral part of the strategy and intervention model of both the SSCBFB project and the new Supply Chains for a Sustainable Future of Work project. The project has made distinct and acknowledged efforts to ensure cooperation and alignment of work with relevant other actors, including relevant other ILO projects, offices and departments. The second and final part of this recommendation goes well beyond the scope of any ILO project, office, branch or department. The recommendation to “avoid a race to the bottom” and “promote ratification and implementation of international labour standards in all countries” is so broad that it can only be achieved by the entire organization and all of its Members working together.

action_plan:

The new, follow-up project “Supply Chains for a Sustainable Future of Work” is building on and expanding the work of the SSCBFB project to explore cooperation with other relevant actors upstream. This includes exchanging experiences and achievements of advancing decent work in the coffee supply chain in Colombia with other coffee-producing countries and with key coffee supply chain stakeholders globally and in the EU. The same applies to fisheries in Namibia, where lessons learned and achievements are shared with constituents and key stakeholders in other countries and downstream along the fisheries supply chain.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

SECTOR

title:

4. ILO-SECTOR is recommended to explore cooperation with relevant other actors, including relevant other ILO projects, offices and departments in other relevant countries, to address upstream challenges in specific supply chains that require actions in countries where sourcing of inputs is done or in countries that compete in the same supply chains. Relevant linkages and possibilities for cooperation that can be identified in the sectors that were selected in the design of the next project phase are: - Tackling migrant labour issues in source countries in Asia for labour in the rubber glove sector in Malaysia, strengthening the partnership with the International Organisation for Migration who is working with migrant labour challenges in source and recipient countries; - Exchange of experiences in projects in the Coffee sector, between Colombia and Viet Nam that has been explored to some extend in the current SSCBFB project can be strengthened and possibly expanded to other coffee producing countries, where ILO is present; - Exchanges of knowledge and experience from Namibia in the fishery sector with other countries exporting to the EU. An important challenge in working on international labour standards and decent work in global supply chains is that lead companies in these chains can easily change their sourcing strategies, as was for example shown in the electronics sector. This requires an international focus across sourcing countries to avoid that improvements in decent work conditions and compliance with international labour standards in a specific sector and country do not come at the cost of companies changing their sourcing strategies to other countries. ILO as an international organisation has access to tri-partite partners in different countries and to social partners at international level to address these challenges at the global supply chain level.

project_symbols:

GLO/20/40/EUR

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/16851

information_source:

Head Quarters

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