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Towards fair and sustainable global supply chains: Promoting formalization and decent work for invisible workers in South Asia - Final evaluation

eval_number:

3480

eval_title:

Towards fair and sustainable global supply chains: Promoting formalization and decent work for invisible workers in South Asia - Final evaluation

location:

region:

Asia and the Pacific

country:

Asia and the Pacific - regional

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eval_url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3480

lessons_learned:

description:

Home-based workers, especially women, require additional livelihood and leadership development support to participate in the initiatives that promote freedom of association and collective bargaining. Home-based workers face several limitations while participating in the initiatives that promote their causes. This includes limited time (as they also care of the household work) and earning capacity (due to low wages). Accordingly, any initiative that does not lead to immediate and direct benefits in terms of increased income shall not witness good participation of the women workers. Accordingly, the TUs need to adopt non-conventional approach wherein providing income generating service is also part of the initiative and unionizing work. This initiative also needs to promote local level leaderships to provide support to the home-based workers at the local level.

context:

Lesson is relevant to the context of home-based workers, especially women, and other informal economy workers where wages are very low.

success:

The additional strategies can lead to better participation of the home-based workers in the initiative.

challenges:

In absence of additional livelihood options and leadership development strategies project are not successful in getting good involvement of the home-based workers.

administrative_issues:

Relevant to the design of the future projects.

comments:

ILO and trade unions

url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/255567

themes:

theme:

Freedom of association

category:

International Labour Standards

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