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Improving labour relations for decent work and sustainable development in the Myanmar garment industry - Final evaluation

eval_number:

2584

eval_title:

Improving labour relations for decent work and sustainable development in the Myanmar garment industry - Final evaluation

location:

region:

Asia and the Pacific

country:

Myanmar

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eval_url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2584

lessons_learned:

description:

Stakeholders’ participation of all three Tripartite Constituents, including the Government (a Ministry of Labour or Employment), in the project design and in the implementation result not only in Ownership but also allows for leverage vis-a-vis the other constituents.

context:

Undertaking participatory design processes with national stakeholders is crucial. The employers’ and workers’ organizations were expected to play key roles the ILO-GIP as they were) expected to be jointly responsible for implementing the project intervention and monitoring the project progress via their participation in the ILO-GIP governance structure. The evaluation learned that the insufficient participation of the national social partners in the project´s design stage proved to be critical in their lack of understanding and ownership of the project, and thus, largely contributed to significant challenges for creating an enabling environment for the successful implementation of the ILO-GIP. When one of the social partners is reluctant to join the project, as was the case in the ILO-GIP project for the employers’ organisation, and the government is hardly included in the project set-up, there is no leverage to mediate for the government.

success:

Positive was that gradually the two trade unions started working together for the first time.

challenges:

Ownership was not well developed among the tripartite constituents, and the employers’ organisation was reluctant to join the project, while the government was left out and could thus not play a mediating role.

administrative_issues:

In designing a project and writing a PRODOC, there have to be intensive consultations with all three tripartite constituents separately as well as plenary.

comments:

ILO Liaison Office, DWT-ROAP, ILO- HQ, Tripartite Constituents and Donors.

url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/174961

themes:

theme:

Tripartism & constituent partnerships

category:

Organizational issues

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