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South-South Cooperation to Enhance the Institutional Capacities of Trade Unions in Asia and the Pacific - Final Evaluation

eval_number:

2288167

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2288167

location:

country:

Asia and the Pacific - regional

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

South-South Cooperation to Enhance the Institutional Capacities of Trade Unions in Asia and the Pacific - Final Evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2025-05-30 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Constituents

category:

Trade Union - capacity building

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comments:

Launched on 9 May 2025, TNASA survey is ongoing. ACTRAV, in collaboration with the ITCILO, provides the UnionCoLab Asia-Pacific Community of Practice to facilitate digital knowledge-sharing, peer learning, and continuous collaboration among trade unions, enabling them to strengthen their leadership and digital organizing capacity, access curated learning resources, engage in regional dialogue, and adopt innovative strategies to address key issues such as just transition, gender equity, and occupational safety and health.

action_plan:

ACTRAV will adopt a bottom-up approach to identify the training needs of participants, placing these priorities at the core of the next project phase. A comprehensive training needs assessment and skills assessment survey (TNASA) will serve as the project’s starting point, ensuring that all learning activities are grounded in real organizational challenges. Senior trade union leaders will be actively engaged in shaping the agenda to ensure relevance and alignment with their capacity-building goals. The project will also place a strong emphasis on youth inclusion, actively involving young trade union representatives and trainers in all phases of design, delivery, and follow-up

management_response:

Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

ACTRAV

title:

Continue to apply the bottom-up approach to identify needs and try to involve trade union leadership as much as possible. One of the strengths of the evaluated South-South program was its initial approach to mapping the needs of the unions in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Pacific in a participatory manner. This was achieved through various online meetings and webinars, involving approximately 50 union workers from no fewer than 17 countries. As a result, the developed training programs were highly aligned with the specific needs. Given the vast region, the large number of countries, and the unions involved in this program, this is a significant achievement. Therefore, it is recommended that this methodology be replicated in the development of future programs to ensure that the training offerings continue to meet the specific needs of the unions in the different countries. It is also worth noting that organizing many sessions online allowed for the engagement of a greater number of stakeholders. Given the increasing travel costs, the capacity to involve individuals in person has become somewhat limited. Therefore, online sessions serve as a highly effective alternative. During the evaluation workshop in Beijing, however, it emerged that the union leaders were not always well-informed about the content of the training programs, despite having received sufficient written information from ACTRAV (in the form of training concept notes). It appears that the written information was not always processed effectively and efficiently. Consequently, it is worth considering the organization of very short online sessions for the involved union leaders during training cycles and modules. These sessions could also be used to engage union leaders in selecting trainees based on the profile needed within the offered formats and to involve them in the follow-up of the trainees in the implementation of concrete actions (see also recommendation 1).

project_symbols:

RAS/19/05/ACF

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/2288903

information_source:

Head Quarters

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