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Integrated Programme on Fair Recruitment (FAIR) - Phase II - Global and Hong Kong components - Final evaluation
- eval_number:
- 3188
- eval_title:
- Integrated Programme on Fair Recruitment (FAIR) - Phase II - Global and Hong Kong components - Final evaluation
- location:
- region:
- Inter-Regional
- country:
- Inter-Regional
- region:
- Arab States
- country:
- Jordan
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- country:
- Nepal
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- country:
- China
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- country:
- Philippines
- region:
- Africa
- country:
- Tunisia
- eval_url:
- https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3188
- lessons_learned:
- description:
- Fair recruitment process should be efficient and prompt to meet the employers needs in the labour force and accompanied by comprehensive system of human rights protection including monitoring mechanisms with the participation of wide range of stakeholders
- context:
- FAIR II Project set the targets under outcome “Fair recruitment corridors and sectors are expanded or created” to recruit migrant workers at Nepal – Jordan corridor through fair labour recruiters
- success:
- N/A
- challenges:
- The fair recruitment process piloted by the FAIR project was evaluated by Tufts University in participation with five factories in Jordan. Four factories received fairly recruited workers and fifth served as a control group. The study provided substantial evidence of the benefits of fair recruitment to prospective migrants and employers. And this was confirmed by evaluation interviews that employers (at least some of them) clearly understand that the worker recruited under fair recruitment is a different worker, preferable to be employed. However, the fair recruiter lacked capacity to meet the demand for fairly recruited migrants generated by the program. The great challenge is that this is the project with high level of involvement of government – the practice that the factory hardly can replicate not being a part of such intervention run and led by UN agency. Therefore, contrary to expectations, participating factories resorted to conventional recruiters during the fair recruitment phase of the pilot in order to meet their workforce needs. They participated in the corridor but they still brought migrants through other channels including Nepalis travelling through India.
- administrative_issues:
- ILO Programme managers should invest in studying the limitations of the fair recruitment process seeking ways to increase efficiency to meet the number of workers demanded by the employers in a timely manner
- comments:
- Government, employers /migrant men and women
- url:
- https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/230809
- themes:
- theme:
- Migration
- category:
- Conditions of work & equality
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