Management Response

: Nepal
: 2012 - 2013 , Nepal (CO)
: Final Evaluation of the programme on Sustaining the Gains of Foreign Labour Migration through the Protection of Migrant Workers Rights
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: Nepal
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: Approved
Recommendation: 1: Formalise the development partner?s coordination mechanism on migration to enhance coherence, and coordination on safe migration responses, facilitate synergy with the on-going anti trafficking initiatives and share good practices.
Management Response: Accepted
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development, Knowledge management
Organizational Priorities: Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Efficiency, Relevance
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1.1: Initiate discussions with development partners to formalise and expand the existing Coordination Group on Migration. Women's Economic Empowerment (WEE) Unit 2014/12 Completed A forum of development partners - the Kathmandu Migration Group was formed in 2013 and has been expanded in 2015 to enhance coordination on the migration response.
Recommendation: 2: Expand the scope of the existing Steering Committee at the Ministry of Labour and Employment (MoLE) focused on UN Women's intervention, to enhance coordination between government agencies such as Foreign Employment Promotion Board (FEPB), Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development (MoFALD) and formalize the presence of key development partners and civil society members within the Steering Committee.
Management Response: Accepted
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Advocacy, Internal coordination and communication, Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: UN Coordination, Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Gender equality
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2.1: Initiate discussions with the Government and development partners to expand the scope of the existing Steering Committee to include key development partners, government bodies, civil society members/organizations and key sectoral and concerned ministries. WEE Unit 2014/12 Completed A dialogue to form a high level inter-ministerial body at the National Planning Commission was initiated in December 2014 to mainstream migration issues into sectoral policies and programmes. An IOM led joint migration initiative started and formed a follow-up committee with the Government (MOLE/MFA and MOFLD) and development partners. The National Action Plan (NAP) on Foreign Employment was endorsed in August 2015.
Recommendation: 3: Facilitate linkages and networking between Community Alert Groups (CAGs) and POURAKHI (network of Women Migrant Workers (WMWs)with mandated government bodies like the Foreign Employment Promotion Board (FEPB), Department of Women and Children(DWC), Local Development Offices(LDO) to generate/disseminate local level information and provide services especially to migrant workers and their families to facilitate safe migration.
Management Response: Accepted
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Internal coordination and communication, Advocacy, Knowledge management, Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: UN Coordination, Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Gender equality
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3.1: Using the on-going LOA with MoLE, advocate and lobby to link CAG and POURAKHI with Foreign Employment Promotion Board (FEPB), WDO and LDO and also seek synergy with the on-going Local Governance and Community Development Programme (LGCDP) to implement provisions within the blended guidelines to disseminate information on safe migration. WEE Unit and Governance and National Planning(GNP) Unit 2015/06 Completed The FEPB is continuously developing capacity of local government agencies on safe migration, mobilising Community Alert Groups and returnee women migrant workers. FEPB is continuously promoting the use of the provisions in the Blended Guideline on safe migration through its localisation initiatives. UN Women has established linkage between FEPB and POURAKHI.
Recommendation: 4: Continue to strengthen advocacy on safe migration using mechanisms like the Local Governance and Community Development Programme (LGCDP)so as to enhance outreach.Support the replication and up scaling of the safe migration orientation workshops for local level stakeholders in collaboration with FEPB, using the handbook on foreign employment and gender and social inclusion, developed in collaboration with MoFALD. Support advocacy efforts with the Ministry of Finance (MoF), Nepal Rastriya Bank, Federation of Nepal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI)and the private sector to endorse and enforce the financial schemes for migrant workers based on the experience of Philippines and Sri Lanka.
Management Response: Accepted
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Advocacy
Organizational Priorities: Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Impact, Sustainability
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4.1: UN Women Nepal's draft framework of support for 2014-17 prioritizes women's economic empowerment with the following outcome and outputs: Outcome 2.1 Government of Nepal develops and implements policies to advance women's economic empowerment and sustainable development. The partnership with MoLE will be expanded to support the finalisation and implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) on foreign employment. Synergy and partnership between Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development (MoFALD) and MOLE will be institutionalised within the NAP and orientation on the handbook will be included as part of NAP implementation. Synergy and partnerships between MoF, Central Bank, financial institutions and MoLE will also be included in the NAP. UN Women is supporting MoLE to draft the National Reintegration Programme Guidelines and will advocate for the inclusion of financial schemes for migrant workers. UN Women will partner with the private sector to promote the Women's Empowerment Principles. WEE Unit 2017/12 Completed The proposed amendment to the Foreign Employment Act incorporates a gender perspective. UN Women provided technical reviews of the proposed amendment and developed recommendations in 2016. Recommendations were submitted to the MOLE through the Kathmandu Migration group in 2017. The amendment, if approved, will ensure that foreign employment will be managed from the perspective of migrant workers’ rights and accord special consideration to issues of women migrant workers. This result requires that continuous policy advocacy is taken by gender champions to ensure final adoption by Parliament. While the provision of the support (follow-up actions) was completed in 2017, the Parliament’s endorsement of the amendment is still pending as of December 2018.
Recommendation: 5: Strengthen the network of WMWs to enhance their voice and agency (including the entrepreneurs' group among returnee WMWs) and prioritise the reintegration programme to generate income and livelihoods for sustainable development.Include migration as a cross cutting issue in future programming on rural women's economic empowerment.
Management Response: Accepted
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development, Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind
Organizational Priorities: UN Coordination, Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Sustainability, Impact
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5.1: UN Women Nepal's draft framework of support for 2014-17 prioritizes women's economic empowerment and this recommendation will be addressed through the following outputs: Output 2.1.2 Networks of excluded women (rural women farmers, conflicted affected women and returnee women migrant workers) have skills for livelihood generation Output 2.1.3 Networks of excluded women (rural women farmers, conflicted affected, trafficked survivors, returnee migrant workers, home base workers, HIV positive women) have voice and agency to influence local and national decision making processes for sustainable development. WEE Unit 2017/12 Completed A partnership with a consortium of six networks of excluded women was initiated in 2016 to enhance leadership capacity of excluded women to participate/represent in local-level decision-making processes. In the context of the new federal and local governance structures which were adopted in 2017, the partnership with the consortium was extended until September 2018 to provide the necessary follow-up support. The partnership was successfully completed with 180 local women leaders from six networks of excluded women. Moreover, UN Women Nepal also supported the vocational skills and entrepreneurship development and income generation with 2,000 selected excluded women, in partnership with the Vocational Skills Development Training by February 2018.
5.2: UN Women in coordination with three other UN agencies (FAO, WFP and IFAD) has developed a joint programme on the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women where migration is included as a cross cutting issue. (Output 3.1 Institutional capacity and networks of rural women strengthened to take on leadership and decision-making opportunities) A proposal with IOM to address the economic empowerment and rehabilitation of returnee migrant women workers and trafficked survivors has been developed. (Output 3.1 Networks of women migrant workers and survivors of trafficking strengthened to influence national policy dialogue) WEE Unit 2017/12 Ongoing As of December 2018, UN Women implements the following two joint initiatives with other UN agencies to integrate specific issues which underline labour migration of Nepali women, in its women’s economic empowerment interventions: 1) UN Women in coordination with other three UN JP (FAO, IFAD and WFP) partners initiated the implementation of the Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment joint programme to pilot the Agricultural Development Strategy in 2015. With the additional fund allocation by a donor (Multi-Partner Trust Fund for RWEE), the joint programme was extended until September 2019. 2) A joint project with IOM which targeted to support economic reintegration of WMWs and survivors of trafficking, was extended until October 2019.
Recommendation: 6: Support the development of a comprehensive media package on safe migration that can be taken forward by different stakeholders in an effort to expand outreach across the country.
Management Response: Accepted
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Internal coordination and communication, Knowledge management
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities, Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Impact, Sustainability
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6.1: UN Women Nepal's draft framework of support for 2014-17 prioritizes women's economic empowerment and the proposed recommendation will be addressed by the following output: Output 2.1.4 Evidence base for policy advocacy on women's economic empowerment and rights available (efforts under this output will include a comprehensive media campaign) WEE Unit 2017/12 Completed A comprehensive and action-oriented advocacy campaign which was launched in January 2018, for transformative changes in social norms. All campaign activities have completed by the end of 2018, raising awareness against gender-based discrimination and promote women's leadership in economic activities in households, communities and the labour market. One of the main subjects to be covered by the campaign is the nexus between human trafficking and labour migration to raise awareness about issues of human trafficking and unsafe migration.
6.2: UN Women and IOM have developed a proposal to address the economic empowerment and rehabilitation of returnee migrant women workers and trafficked survivors. The proposal includes a comprehensive media component (Output 1.2 Public awareness campaigns to challenge gender based discriminations and stereotypes attached to female identity mobilizing partners, young people and community leaders implemented in project districts) WEE Unit 2017/12 Completed UN Women along with IOM submitted a proposal to development partners that includes a component on public awareness campaigns. UN Women together with MoWCSW launched the Male Leaders Network to address gender based discrimination and promote gender equality and women’s empowerment on 2 November 2015.
Recommendation: 7: Develop a joint programme with the ILO, IOM, MoWCSW and MoLE to address the entire migration cycle including the nexus between migration and trafficking.
Management Response: Accepted
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018), Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Internal coordination and communication
Organizational Priorities: UN Coordination
UNEG Criteria: Sustainability, Impact
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
7.1: UN Women and IOM have developed a proposal to address the economic empowerment and re-integration of returnee migrant women workers and trafficked survivors. The proposal is to be implemented in close collaboration with MoWCSW and MoLE. The proposal focuses on the following: Output 4.1 Evidence base generated (operational gaps and recommendations) to strengthen coherence in national policies on labour migration and anti-trafficking and Output 4.2 Senior government officials in select Ministries have a better understanding of the value of convergence on the issue of foreign employment and human trafficking WEE Unit 2017/12 Completed A joint project with IOM was developed and commenced in 2016 to address the nexus between human trafficking and labour migration. Under its overarching goal, the project aims to create an enabling environment to eliminate barriers to gender equality and women’s empowerment, strengthen economic competencies of returnee migrant women workers and survivors of trafficking, and enhance cohesion and synergy of institutions and policies on labour migration and human trafficking. The project is being implemented in Sindhupalchowk and Dhading districts from October 2016 to October 2018.
Recommendation: 8. Develop a comprehensive capacity development framework with clear baselines and targets to track changes and strengthen documentation.
Management Response: Accepted
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Impact, Relevance, Sustainability, Efficiency
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Responsible Deadline Status Comments
8.1: The Nepal office prioritizes monitoring and evaluation. The establishment of baselines and systematic tracking of progress on indicators will be prioritized and performance monitoring frameworks (PMF) will be developed for all projects in consultation with partners. The office has developed a monitoring, evaluation and research (MER) plan for its work for the period 2014-17. The office will continue with systematic efforts initiated in 2012 to strengthen its own capacities on results based management and reporting. The office is also in the process of developing an internal capacity development plan. WEE Unit and Senior Management 2014/12 Completed
Recommendation: 9: Conduct research studies to assess the impact of remittances on skill development of WMW and use of remittances in sectors such as agriculture, tourism and industry to promote income generation and entrepreneurship development.Study the socio-economic impact of foreign employment on women and families. Support efforts to generate national level sex disaggregated data on foreign employment in collaboration with the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).
Management Response: Accepted
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Knowledge management
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Impact
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9.1: UN Women Nepal's draft framework of support for 2014-17 prioritizes women's economic empowerment and this recommendation will be addressed by the following output: Output 2.1.4 Evidence base for policy advocacy on women's economic empowerment and rights available WEE Unit 2017/12 Completed A research to assess the causes of women’s labour migration and ways of their reintegration into the domestic labour market in Nepal was completed in December 2017. The research examines the interplay between and among pre-migration and post-return contextual factors, migration conditions abroad, and the circumstances of return to understand how they impact the reintegration process of returnee women migrant workers (RWMWs) into Nepal’s labour market. The research report is being reviewed and a publishable manuscript of its summary report has been developed by NCO with the support of an independent reviewer/editor. The manuscript is under validation of the research team, after which it will be published and disseminated to strategic stakeholders by NCO.
9.2: UN Women in collaboration with three other UN agencies (FAO, WFP and IFAD) has developed a joint programme on the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women. It includes a focus on strengthening evidence base Output 4.1 Evidence base generated for policy advocacy on the economic empowerment of rural women). WEE Unit 2017/12 Completed Three desk reviews were completed in 2016 under the joint programme with FAO, IFAD and WFP. UN Women, in coordination with the Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) and MoAD, conducted three desk reviews on “workload distribution between men and women in the agriculture sector”, “women’s role in decision making in the farm operations” and “drudgery reduction for women in the agriculture sector”. Key findings of the desk reviews were shared with the relevant government officials, development partners and stakeholders in November 2016.