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Independent Clustered Evaluation of Vision Zero Fund projects in the global coffee supply chain

eval_number:

3102

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3102

location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

Independent Clustered Evaluation of Vision Zero Fund projects in the global coffee supply chain

recommendations:

date:

2023-05-23 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Programme sustainability

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action_plan:

Sustainability plan/exit strategy: The project is working closely with its partners to promote sustainability of its training products and methodologies: 1) The Vietnam National OSH Institute is currently reviewing the WIND training programme, with the aim to adopt it as one of its nationally endorsed OSH training programmes which are promoted and supported by VN NIOSH; 2) A survey was carried out to identify the strengths and weaknesses of community organisations (incl. agricultural extension centres) to support the rollout of WIND training through their structures in a sustainable manner. Potential of Women's Union and Farmers' Union to be discussed further at national level. 3) The WIND training material is currently being edited to become an ILO publication. Once the editing process is completed, it will be widely disseminated, including among MNEs, to be applied in their supply chains. 4) VCCI-HCM has dedicated space on its website to promote OSH in agriculture, with focus on the coffee supply chain. Strengthen further the capacity of agricultural extension workers: The project has invested a lot in ToT training of agricultural extension workers from 5 Central Highland provinces. The National Agricultural Extension Center (NAEC) has now the human resources (plus sufficient financial resources from the national budget) to rollout OSH training to farmers. Adopting the Guide on "Reporting, recording and notification of occupational accidents and diseases": The MOLISA Safe Work Dept. aims to adopt it as a national tool, promote its usage and upload it on its website. Technical assistance for MOLISA for revision of OSH Law and development of a decree on occupational accident and disease insurance: These activities will be included in the new project. Dissemination of survey on coffee farmers' access to social protection and occupational health services: The study has been translated into Vietnamese. It will be widely circulated in early June 2023. Key policy makers received the study already as input to the revision of the Law on Social Insurance.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

CO-Mexico

title:

Specific recommendations for Vietnam: • Prepare an exit strategy or sustainability plan for the project. It should include a more adequate training strategy for the processing companies, taking into account that so far the Project has focused its efforts more on the agricultural area and farmers and less on the processing area, which is also important in the supply chain. • Strengthen agricultural extension workers to provide OSH training by adopting the WIND methodology. Trained agricultural extension workers should begin to apply their learning and provide OSH training to farmers. If necessary, consider further investment in their skills at a later stage. • Use the PAC not only to discuss project implementation strategies and to inform partners about the progress and constraints of the project, but also as a space for dialogue on policies, regulations or to promote an enabling environment for OSH. • Discuss with MOLISA and the Labour Inspectorate the feasibility of institutionalising the tool "Reporting, Recording and Notification of Occupational Accidents and Diseases". • ILO, MOLISA, MOH and VIHEMA review the current OSH Act, identify what specific needs of the coffee chain are reflected in the Law and whether the provisions of the occupational accident and disease insurance scheme could be extended to informal agricultural workers. • Disseminate the findings of the study "Coffee farmers' access to social protection and occupational health services" and its recommendations on how to extend social protection to informal workers in the sub-sector to institutions responsible for policy and/or legislation in the country.

project_symbols:

RLA/18/08/EUR

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/16895

information_source:

Country Office

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