The Institute for Labor Studies (ILS) participated in the first Workshop of the Development of Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanism for the Association of Southeast Asian (ASEAN) Labour Ministers Work Programme 2016-2020 held on 15-16 October 2018 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

ILS OIC-Chief Labor and Employment Officer Bernard Mangulabnan moderated Session 2 of the workshop, which introduced the Monitoring & Evaluation results framework linking outputs to higher-level outcomes.

The workshop was hosted by the Ministry of Human Resources of Malaysia in partnership with the ASEAN Secretariat and was intended to introduce the participants to the “6C” general approach and steps of M&E for the ALM’ Work Programme, and to connect ALM’ Work Programme’s outcomes with the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) Blueprint 2025 results framework.

Participants included representatives of the Senior Labour Officials Meeting’s Working Group on Progressive Labour Practices to Enhance the Competitiveness of ASEAN (SLOM-WG), the ASEAN Committee on the Implementation of the ASEAN Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers (ACMW), and the ASEAN Occupational Safety and Health Network (ASEAN-OSHNET) from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam.

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