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Outcome evaluation of MMR801, Strengthened capacity of employers organizations - Independent evaluation

eval_number:

2653

eval_title:

Outcome evaluation of MMR801, Strengthened capacity of employers organizations - Independent evaluation

location:

region:

Asia and the Pacific

country:

Myanmar

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eval_url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2653

recommendations:

title:

ILO should encourage UMFCCI to retain the employers’ organisation department rather than hiving it off, recognising that this could offer significant synergies with other departments within UMFCCI (and ensuring that the tram can focus on the important activities of delivering services and engaging in dialogue and advocacy rather than being diverted into discussions on structure and funding). (High priority; no resources required.)

url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/12370

action_plan:

ACTEMP fully agrees with this recommendation,. As noted in the initial guidance given to UMFCCI, the global trend is one of Chambers and EOs merging over the last few decades, not of Chambers hiving off the EO functions into a separate organization. Along the same lines, nowadays employers’ organizations are extending their mandate beyond labour issues. Almost no pure employers’ associations exist any longer. Additionally in the Myanmar context there does not seem to be evidence to suggest that a proliferation of organizations would benefit the private sector. Instead, it could result in an EO that is less representative, less well resourced, and less able to effectively advocate for the business community. The main problems stand in the current Labour organization Law which hamper to register UMFCCI as an EO. Two solutions are envisageable: amending the current law (the process is on going – at parliament level) or keep the de facto UMFCCI recognition as private sector organizations dealing with social and labour matters. - Meetings with the newly created Industrial relations Committee in UMFCCI to illustrate the different ways of business representing business and the current legislation regarding registration of EO - Organization of a workshop in Yangon with key leaders of business organizations with “dual role” (EBMOs) targeting UMFCCI CEC members to illustrate structure, modus operandi and legal recognition of EBMOs - Take advantage of the ILO Direct Contact Mission to explore the possibility to amend the current law and allow the registration of UMFCCI as EO

date:

2019-06-25 00:00:00.0

progress:

Partially achieved

management_response:

Partially Completed

information_source:

Country Office

admin_units:

ILO-Yangon

project_symbols:

NO_DC_SYMBOL_42

themes:

theme:

Constituents

category:

Employers - capacity building

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