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Responsible Supply Chains in Asia - Final evaluation

eval_number:

2837

eval_title:

Responsible Supply Chains in Asia - Final evaluation

location:

region:

Asia and the Pacific

country:

Asia and the Pacific - regional

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region:

Inter-Regional

country:

Inter-Regional

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eval_url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2837

lessons_learned:

description:

Regional projects need to have a Regional Component for the exchange of good practices and lessons learned among the target countries.

context:

The RSCA Programme was lacking a Regional Component in its design, but due to the widely felt need for exchange of experiences among countries halfway such a component was added in the LogFrame especially targeting knowledge management and policy exchange.

success:

The added Regional Component turned out to be instrumental also to map labour issues in supply chains across countries and to design interventions in countries with interlinked supply chains including home-host dialogues. Such a component further opens up possibilities for Peer-to-Peer and Triangular Cooperation as well as for trade dialogues. As an example, lessons could be learned by other countries from the situation in Viet Nam where all eight Fundamental Conventions are ratified, and a new Labour Code was introduced. It could also have a snowball effect, when one country does a lot on Business and Human Rights Due Diligence, then other countries do not want to be left behind A concrete example was the support of the programme to the annual “United Nations Regional Forum on Responsible Business and Human Rights (B&HR), Asia and the Pacific”.

challenges:

To implement the RSCA programme in isolation in the six countries without interaction meant that a lot of information was not shared in the early years of the programme.

administrative_issues:

Regional technical and administrative staff needs to be present in the regional hub (in this case ILO-ROAP in Bangkok).

comments:

ILO MULTI, ILO ROAP/DWT, ILO Country Offices, Other UN and other international organisations, and Donor.

url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/226565

themes:

theme:

Organizational learning

category:

Organizational issues

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