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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:

Viet Nam

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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country:

Indonesia

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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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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country:

Madagascar

region:

Africa

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country:

Ethiopia

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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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:

Social Protection

category:

Social protection

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comments:

This is not in-line with the Priority Action Programme of the new DG on Decent Work in Crisis and Post-Crisis situations considering that Decent work includes Social Protection. The pandemic has highlighted the relevance and importance of social protection to protect lives and livelihoods and 4 billion people remain without access to any social protection which makes reaching them during a crisis challenging. In particular, the crisis has highlighted the many gaps and challenges faced by social protection. Despite implementation challenges, responding during crises is seen as an opportunity to initiate a social dialogue and implement pilots through cash transfers in countries where coverage of workers is still very low or inadequate which puts countries on the path to transform some of the short-term emergency measures into long-term programmes and expand coverage and adequacy. This was the case for Rana-Plaza and Tazreen Compensation Arrangements in Bangladesh, the BMZ for job retention, wage subsidies or unemployment benefits programme as well as the EIS-Pilot in Bangladesh or the Top-up EI benefits for the Ali-Enterprise Baldia Factory fire victims in Pakistan.

action_plan:

n/a

management_response:

Rejected

progress:

No implementation

admin_units:

SOCPRO

title:

The way the cash transfer component eventually played out it was found to be less relevant in a few countries, in comparison with the OSH component - for which the implementation was much more straightforward. In the future, the ILO should concentrate its technical cooperation and assistance efforts, in the field of social protection, on systems, policies, knowledge development and institutional change which are core mandate .

project_symbols:

GLO/20/20/MUL

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/17043

information_source:

Head Quarters

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