Power in Migration and Work - Projects in 2018
Safe and Fair Migration: A Feminist perspective on women’s rights to mobility and work
Duration: January - December 2018
Locations: Souteast Asia: Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia; South Asia: Nepal, India, Bangladesh; West Asia: Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait.
Beneficiaries: Women and (migrant) workers in source and destination countries, working in domestic work, the garment sector and entertainment.
What is this project about?
This project focuses on participatory learning and evidence-based advocacy. Centering migrant women’s voices and experience by using Feminist Participatory Action Research as a framework, it brings together partners across countries of origin and destination in Asia. The mix of different sub-region, sectors, and movements will help us strengthen our intersectional approach to view gender, labour, and migration issues from a rights-based and feminist perspective.
Objectives:
- Enhance mutual strengthening of the capacity* of women-led/women-focused organisations and migrant communities who will participate in the research to deepen understanding and recognise women’s autonomy and strength in making decisions regarding their migration through research and advocacy (through conceptual clarity, qualitative research skills with feminist agenda in mind and building and strengthening alliance)
- Bringing about policy and attitudinal change towards women’s labour migration through collective collaborative advocacy.
Project Partners (Members and Non-Members):
- South East Asia: MAP(Thailand), CATU(Cambodia), LRC-KJHAM (Indonesia, member)
- South Asia: WOFOWON (Nepal, member), SEWA (India), SLD (India), Karmojibi Nari (Bangladesh)
- Middle East: IDWF (Lebanon), ARM (Lebanon), Al Hassan Workers’ Center (Jordan), Sandigan (Kuwait)
Funding Support: Women's Fund Asia
Towards Empowerment: Working with women and girls in India
Duration: January - December 2018
Location: Odisha state in India
Beneficiaries: Women and girls before they have migrated or have decided to migrate
What is this project about?
The tribal communities of Odisha are migrating to other parts of the country – mainly to cities – in search of work. Many people see the cities as places of opportunities and freedom. Unfortunately, when people from these communities migrate, they become subject to exploitation, abuse and poor working conditions. Much of this migration is distress or forced migration resulting from policy failure of the state. Our project aims to understand the complexities around interstate labour migration, especially female labour migration, in India. We want to critique and speak out against forced or distress migration. We also want to support young women and girls in making informed and well-considered decisions regarding their in-country migration for work.
Objective/s of the project:
- To work with women and young girls so that they develop adequate awareness regarding demands of paid work, job markets, workers’ rights and life skills necessary for working away from their home villages
- To link young women to various skills development programmes available in their communities to expand their livelihood options
- To educate migrating women to join unions to enhance their collective bargaining and to form cooperatives and small businesses should they decide not to migrate any more or not at all
- To build adequate knowledge and skill of NGO partners on trafficking, migration and labour to deliver work at the community level effectively and connect to advocacy spaces at state and national level
- To build capacity of field staff in analysis, documentation and reporting
Project Partners (GAATW Members): Institute for Social Development, and Aaina - Odisha
Funding Support: Caritas-France
Learning from the Experiences of Women Migrant Workers
Duration: March - December 2018
Locations: South Asia: Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka; West Asia: Lebanon, Jordan; Africa: Ethiopia
Beneficiaries: Women and (migrant) workers in source and destination countries, NGOs service providers.
What is this project about?
The aim of this project is to enhance the direct services and advocacy work of the participating NGOs by incorporating the lived experiences of women migrant workers.
Specific objectives:
1. Improve partners’ qualitative documentation of women migrant workers’ experiences
2. Enable the voices and concerns of women migrant to reach national and international agendas
3. Strengthen collaboration between partners in countries of origin and destination
Project Partners (Members and Non-Members): Bangladesh – Ovibashi Karmi Unnayan Program (OKUP), Ethiopia – Agar Ethiopia Charitable Society (AGAR), India - National Workers Welfare Trust, Jordan - Caritas, Jordan Women’s Union, Solidarity Centre, Lebanon – AMEL Foundation, Nepal – Aaprabasi Mahila Kamdar Samuha (AMKAS), Sri Lanka - Caritas
Funding Support: Swiss Development Cooperation Agency
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