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Promoting economic empowerment of women at work through responsible business conduct – G7 countries (in co-delegation with UN Women) - Final evaluation

eval_number:

2862

eval_title:

Promoting economic empowerment of women at work through responsible business conduct – G7 countries (in co-delegation with UN Women) - Final evaluation

location:

region:

Inter-Regional

country:

Inter-Regional

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eval_url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2862

lessons_learned:

description:

The lack of prior consultations with ILO constituents led to the ILO’s Bureau for Employers’ Activities (ACTEMP)’s reticence to fully partner in the implementation of the project, as it is mentioned and highlighted in previous reports, evaluations and throughout the key informant interviews. In the later stages, even the consultations took place far after the initiation of the project, the employer organizations were not satisfied with the consultations.

context:

Contrary to UN Women and all other UN agencies, ILO is the only tripartite UN agency with government, employer, and worker representatives.

success:

The project did not directly contribute to strengthen social dialogue, however, it did seize opportunities to highlight the ILO COVID-19 response policy framework, of which social dialogue is one of the four pillars. Also, some of the illustrative practice reports (particularly the trade unions’ good pactice report ) highlight the relevance of social dialogue to address gender issues.

challenges:

Tripartism and social dialogue are an issue of concern for this project. No tripartite consultations were conducted when drafting the project document and the governance structure (SC and AG) of the project was not composed of the ILO tripartite constituents. This was the result of a multitude of factors such as the late involvement of the ILO in the design of the project, a lack of consultations during the design phase of the project between different ILO departments due to their rejection of the project (when the project idea was proposed to the ILO), the lack of interest from employers’ organizations in some of the target countries, etc.

administrative_issues:

Employers’ organizations were then only contacted at the time of setting up the national project advisory groups.

comments:

ILO

url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/228281

themes:

theme:

Planning and programme design

category:

Organizational issues

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