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Protecting garment sector workers: occupational safety and health and income support in response to the COVID-19 pandemic - Final evaluation

eval_number:

3547

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3547

location:

country:

Indonesia

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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country:

Viet Nam

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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country:

Madagascar

region:

Africa

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country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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country:

Lao People's Democratic Republic

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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country:

Ethiopia

region:

Africa

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country:

Cambodia

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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country:

Bangladesh

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Protecting garment sector workers: occupational safety and health and income support in response to the COVID-19 pandemic - Final evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2023-05-23 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Planning and programme design

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comments:

Though the ILO strongly advocates for universal coverage of workers in all forms of employment, including workers in the informal economy, and will strive to ensure programmes including in crisis and post crisis contexts target all, as was the case for the project that is the subject of this evaluation, timeliness imperatives and limited donor funds and scope mean that there are trade-offs to strike for implementation and the need to piggy-back on existing delivery mechanisms, most importantly on existing beneficiary lists. The omission of workers in the informal economy in certain contexts is thus due to either the lack of available registries of such workers and/or to the prioritization in the design that had been agreed upon by the tripartite consultations.

action_plan:

This recommendation highlights the necessity to build social protection system preparedness and to continue ILO’s work in terms of expanding coverage to workers in the informal economy. A working paper on the role of the ILO in social protection in crisis and post-crisis contexts is under preparation (forthcoming Q1 2023) which will clarify the ILO’s role in terms of building preparedness of systems and it will also propose an implementation roadmap. The Global Accelerator for Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions, under the leadership of ILO, will also build tools, strategies and roadmaps to support countries which are actively engaged in the transition from the informal to the formal economy including through the extension of social protection coverage and comprehensiveness to workers in the informal economy. In some of the project countries, e.g. Madagascar, the COVID 19 risk assessment and advice was already extended to informal and/or micro and small enterprises. As VZF works with a supply chain approach, it addresses OSH issues among informal and other vulnerable workers in different sectors such as in agriculture sector. During the VZF strategy revision exercise (2023), approaches towards greater reach to informal sector will be explored.

management_response:

Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

SOCPRO

title:

c) When designing new similar projects, the ILO should ensure that garment workers in the informal economy also are targeted (in this Project, only Cambodia and Madagascar had included the informal economy actors as beneficiaries in their “logframes”).

project_symbols:

GLO/20/20/MUL

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/17041

information_source:

Head Quarters

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