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Homenet
Southeast Asia (Homenet SEA) and Homenet South Asia (HNSA) have a long history
of working together. Homebased worker-leaders from Southeast Asia
distinctly remember their inspiring visits to SEWA, the largest and longest
existing HBW organization in Asia, during their early years of organizing. Both
collaborated in a joint UNIFEM-FNV project entitled “Strengthening the Network
of Homebased Workers in Asia” which covered the period 2002 to 2006.
On two occasions, leaders of
Homenet SEA participated in
regional workshops conducted in India
under the sponsorship of HNSA and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
(FES). Those workshops sought to build solidarity, mutual learning and
experience sharing among participants so that they can strengthen their
organizations and make their issues visible Moreover, both Homenet SEA
and HNSA are also strengthening membership-based organizing (MBO) in
their various country homenets in order to facilitate the emergence and
empowerment of grassroots women leaders.
It
is in this context that Homenet Southeast Asia and the FES Philippines would
like to invite you to attend the Joint
Conference-Workshop of Homenet Southeast Asia (Homenet SEA) and Homenet South
Asia (HNSA) to be held on August 2-3, 2010 in Discovery Suites, Ortigas Center,
Pasig City Metro Manila.
With
the theme “Building Visibility and Voice through Responsive Homebased
Workers’ Organizations in Asia: Focus On ILO Convention 177 on Home Work, ”
the purpose of this meeting will be three-fold, namely:
1) to
share experiences and assess the campaign for ILC 177 ratification on a per
country and subregional basis, in order to plot the ways forward;
2)
to share experiences and lessons in advocating for national policies and laws
on homebased workers; and
3)
to review the results of the membership-based organizing initiatives discussed
in previous workshops conducted by SEWA in Ahmedabad as important steps
in building cooperation and solidarity for greater visibility, participation,
and empowerment of homebased workers at national, subregional, regional,
and global levels.
The major
outcome of the activity will be a stronger sense of mission and solidarity
among all the national and subregional homenets that will be the main
ingredient for the success and of sustainable, democratic, transparent,
accountable, gender-responsive, and participatory initiatives at the national,
subregional, regional and global levels for the benefit of homebased
workers.
Given your expertise on the issue, we sincerely hope that you will
accept our invitation and confirm your participation in the workshop. Kindly
find attached a draft Agenda for the Meeting.
Waktu, Tempat, dan
Penyelenggara
It
is in this context that Homenet
Southeast Asia and the FES
Philippines would like to invite you to attend the Joint Conference-Workshop of Homenet Southeast Asia (Homenet SEA) and
Homenet South Asia (HNSA) to be held on August 2-3, 2010 in Discovery Suites,
Ortigas Center, Pasig City Metro Manila.
Rincian Kegiatan
AUGUST 1 Day Zero
Arrival
of participants
Preparation of exhibits and bazaar
Welcome Dinner
AUGUST
2 Day 1
08:30 - 09:00 am Registration
of participants
Viewing
of exhibits and bazaar
09:00 - 09:30 Opening Ritual
Ms.
Zone Narito, WISEACT
Welcome
Remarks
Ms. Kristina Birke
Director, Regional
Cooperation for Gender Equality
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
Dr. Rosalinda “Inday” Pineda-Ofreneo
Regional Coordinator, Homenet SEA
09:30 - 10:00 Key note
speech
Mr.
Jeff Lawrence Johnson
ILO
Country Director
10:00 - 10:15 Tea Break
10:15 - 10:35 Policies and Programs for Homebased Workers
in the Philippines
Secretary
Rosalinda Baldoz (to be confirmed)
Department
of Labor and Employment (DOLE)
10:35 - 11:00 Comments and Reactions based on the proposed
Magna Carta
for
Workers in the Informal Economy (MACWIE) and
People’s Social Protection
Agenda (PSPSA)
Ms. Beth Angsioco of DSWP for MACWIE
Ms.
Olive Parilla of MAGISSI for PSPA
11:00 - 11:30 ILO Convention 177 on Home Work: Looking Back
And Moving Forward
Mr.
Dan Gallin
Global
Labour Institute (GLI)
11;30 - 12:00 nn Comments and Reactions
Trade
Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP)
Federation
of Free Workers (FFW)
Alliance
of Progressive Labor (APL)
Employers
Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP)
12:00 - 01:00 pm Lunch
01:00 - 01:10 Energizer
01:10 - 01:30 Building Homebased Workers’ Organizations for Greater
Visibility
and Voice
Homenet South Asia (to be
confirmed)
01:30 - 02:30 Sharing of Experiences on MBO Organizing for Policy
Advocacy:
Homenet South Asia
country homenets
02:30 - 03:30 Sharing
of Experiences on MBO Organizing for
Policy Advocacy:
Homenet Southeast Asia country homenets
03:30 - 5:00 Homeworkers’
Café:
(Snacks will be served during the Café)
05:00 - 05:30 Short sharing of insights from the
stories
Table hosts
DAY
2 AUGUST 3
09.00 - 09.15 am. Recap
and synthesis of Day 1
Myrna
Magbitang, Homenet SEA Documentor
09.15 - 10.15 Homenet South Asia panel presentation: Summing
up
last ten years of policy advocacy in the subregion – nodal points
Sharing of good practices: India, Nepal, Pakistan
Sharing of
problems and difficulties: Bangladesh,
Sri
Lanka
Summing
up: HNSA (to be confirmed)
10:15 - 10:30 Tea break
10:30 - 11.20 Homenet Southeast Asia panel presentation:
Summing up
the last 13 years of policy advocacy in the subregion – nodal points
Sharing of good
practices: Thailand
Sharing of problems and
difficulties: Indonesia, Cambodia,
Laos
Summing-up: Dr. Rosalinda “Inday” Ofreneo
11.20 - 12.00 nn Sharing
of Experience on Using ICT as an Organizing Tool
Ms.
Jeyasothy Arulambalam, eHomemakers.net, Malaysia
12.00 - 01.00 pm Lunch
break
01.00 - 02.00 Workshop
I: Action Plan for Advocating ILO C177 and other
Policies for Homebased
Workers (country and sub-regional levels)
02:00 - 2:30 Presentation of Results of Workshops for Consolidation In
Plenary into an Asia-wide Plan
02.30 - 03.00 Workshop II: Sustaining Policy Advocacy:
Identifying and Accessing Sources of Support
03.00 - 03.30 Concluding and Synthesizing Observations, Next
Steps
Dan Gallin and Inday Ofreneo
03.30 - 04.00 Comments and reactions from
Homebased Worker Participants
04.00 - 05.00 Participatory Evaluation and Vote of Thanks
Closing
Ritual
Ringkasan Materi
Homeworkers
are not recognized as workers yet and earn small income with long hours and no
social protection. Homeworkers need a
decent and basic right. So, the
Ratification of ILC 177 is the way but need a long and hard work.
Homenet SEA
and Homenet SA work very hard to make the ILC 177 ratified in national
homenet. It’s need working together with
Trade Union and Confederation to do dialogue with government.
Philipines
Government through the Department of Labor already set up the rules and
policies about the informal workers: The Informal Employment Rules and Laws and
Special Concerns for Informal Employment of Labor and Employment Minister. Philipines also has Magna Carta for Women
Informal Employment (MACWIE), the basic rights bill for women in informal
workers. The numbers of Informal
Employment are 25million, 5 times then formal employment. The informal workers movements are supported
by the Researchers and Academe also joining the Trade Union movement.
The form of
homeworkers around the world are 55% of informal employment (own account
homeworkers) and 45% of industrial homeworkers (putting out system
homeworkers). They are not protected by
the social protection, only 7 countries that already ratified the ILC 177. The homeworkers movement must be joining the
Trade Union Movement also with the Urban Poor Movement as the Industrial
victims. The movement is not just
workers movement but also the social movement.
The
homeworkers movement needs organization because of the economics and politics
trend and face the challenges (invisibility, genders bias, acceptance as real
workers). The most effective
organization is Member Based Organization (MBOs), because show the real
number. Number (quantitative data) is
everything. The organization must be
registered. MBOs is same with Union.
Notes: SEWA
is NGOs but accepted in International Trade Union in 1983 but the India Trade
Union not accepted SEWA until now. SEWA activities
focus on organizing, but working like a movement. Now a day SEWA become MBOs, because NGOs did
not practice democracy structure in the organization, MBOs is the best choice
for homeworkers movement.
The main
problem of homeworkers movement are: political influence, bureaucratic
deadlock, gender bias, patriarch culture, and market flexibility. The percentage of homeworkers are 80% women
and 20% men, the number are 300million around the world, 50million in South
Asia and no social protection.
Notes from
Malaysia (the next member of HomeNet SEA).
Working as the social enterprise for working women live in the below of
poverty line or single mother, the name is “Salam Wanita Project”, operate like
cooperative and training service in the Information Communication
Technology. The SEP working based on the
grass root based planning and implementation to make the women self-reliance
and not depending to others. SWP form
the community empowerment project to train women do fishing and feeding the
fish. SWP supported by 17 NGOs.
Fundraising
can be access to the Corporate Social Responsibility, the industrial country
like Korea and Japan to build a training center like in Laos. Transparency with strong management and
accounting system is a must also build many shops or gallery to maintain the
sustainable funding and self-reliance.
Sustainable development and self-reliance is everything.
The action
plan for HomeNet Movement:
1.
Organize
more homeworkers by the MBOs.
2.
Develop
linkages with stake holders.
3.
Expanding
network.
4.
Incorporation
in Labor Act Reformation.
5.
Urge
government include homeworkers into existing social security mechanism.
6.
Make local
government responsible.
7.
Develop
leadership of homeworkers.
8.
Enhance
capacity of homeworkers and MBOs and country homenet.
9.
Develop
database system in country and regional level.
10.
Develop and
publish Economic Informal Campaigns materials as advocating tools.
11.
Sensitize
the policy maker.
12.
Advocate
government to mainstream homeworkers as labor force and to include in the
national budget.
13.
Declare
international homeworkers day (20 0ctober).
14.
Funding by
CSR concept.
15.
Appeal,
event, exhibition, supermarket, etc.
16.
Proposing
for project funds from donors.
Kesimpulan
Great step
to make collaboration of HomeNet South Asia and South East Asia for the
International Homeworkers Movement.
Moving forward as Union and with Trade Union because the differences
very thin and fighting for the workers or labor rights.
Convince the
ILO to push the national government to do ratification of ILO Convention 177,
because ILC is an international commitment and obligation.
Need to
organize as global or international organization.
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