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Advancing Decent Work and Inclusive Industrialisation in Ethiopia – ONEILO SIRAYE - Final evaluation

eval_number:

3427

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3427

location:

country:

Ethiopia

region:

Africa

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eval_title:

Advancing Decent Work and Inclusive Industrialisation in Ethiopia – ONEILO SIRAYE - Final evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2025-05-28 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Constituents

category:

Trade Union - capacity building

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comments:

The program partially endorses this recommendation. The program has supported the significant expansion of unionization coverage in industrial parks, particularly at Hawassa Industrial Park (HIP). All HIP factories—except one recently operational—have established basic Trade Unions (TUs). The program supports these unions by strengthening negotiation and bargaining skills, fostering workplace cooperation, and encouraging women’s participation in TU leadership through capacity-building programs. BW’s in-factory engagements focus on enhancing social dialogue and industrial relations, supporting management and TU leadership in forming bipartite committees, and providing workplace cooperation training. In factories without established TUs, BW Advisory prioritizes strengthening occupational safety and health (OSH) committees, improving management systems, and ensuring active worker participation. TUs need further support to expand membership, offer meaningful services, and build stronger trust among members. This is one of the key thematic areas that will be emphasised in phase II.

action_plan:

- Provide focused BW advisory support for to the establishment of bipartite committees in factories where TU are established. - Provide training and capacity building to strengthen OSH committees and TU engagement in OSH committees to facilitate social dialogue in OSH - Provide tailored workplace cooperation training to TU and management representatives - Highlight the importance of continued support to Unionization and strengthening of Unions in the Phase II program development.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

CO-Addis Ababa

title:

Recommendation 6: Maintain and strengthen advocacy and awareness raising among factory management on the benefits of trade unions. The impact assessment noted that increased trade union representation coincides with a sharp reduction of management being in favour of trade unions, from 56% to 40% in treatment factories, and a decrease in workers believing that management takes into account workers’ interests (from 17% to 7%). There is a need to continue advocating among managers on the benefits of unionisation for factory growth and workers’ wellbeing to avoid the negative trend continuing and unionisation decreasing again. At the same time, where progress towards informing the factory management about the benefits of trade unions stalls, the ILO should seek temporary arrangements to ensure workers’ rights are better represented. This could be done by establishing PICCs or strengthening them to better represent workers' rights through training activities for selected workers' representatives. Alternatively, further expansion of OSH committees can be done to ensure that workers' interests and needs are represented, at least in the area of OSH regulations.

project_symbols:

ETH/17/01/MUL

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/2343933

information_source:

Country Office

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