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Spotlight Initiative's Safe and Fair Programme, worked among ASEAN countries and engaged with employers’ organizations to improve the working conditions of women migrant workers. This included building the capacity of 1,003 employers in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam to address the concerns of women migrant workers. A group vulnerable to exploitation, harassment and abuse. Spotlight Initiative partnered with the ASEAN Confederation of Employers (ACE) to develop policy briefs that made the business case for preventing violence and harassment at work and detailed…

The Kyrgyzstan Programme set up a Participatory Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting (P-MER) function, a joint monitoring mission to Osh and Naryn regions in April 2022 with a group consisting of 13 representatives from key ministries and departments of the Government of Kyrgyz Republic, including the Office of the President, 8 Civil Society National Reference Group members, 14 representatives of the UN implementing agencies of Spotlight Initiative and the Programme Coordination Unit (PCU) and four media representatives. All members of the team came together to agree on a common vision, plan…

In Kyrgyzstan, Spotlight Initiative worked with parliamentarians to end violence against women and girls. A key achievement was the establishment of the Council on the Rights of Women, Children, and Gender Equality in 2022, by order of the Torago of the Jogorku Kenesh (the Speaker of the Parliament). This Council serves as a crucial liaison between parliamentarians and women’s rights organisations. It supported the development of a strategic action plan for 2023-2026, focused on enhancing civic engagement in law-making. This plan facilitated the participation of women’s rights groups…

Spotlight Initiative's Safe and Fair programme in Southeast Asia was designed to promote safer labour migration in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region. The programme was designed in recognition that women migrant workers in ASEAN countries are at an increased risk of violence, trafficking and exploitation.  The Safe and Fair programme helped to develop guidance for Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) as a tool for service providers to support more coordinated responses to violence against women, including women migrant workers. Due to the multi-faceted nature of violence…

Spotlight Initiative’s Kyrgyzstan Programme revised and updated existing ethical guidelines and protocols for data collection, sharing and reporting on SGBV/VAWG, and integrating confidentiality and safety provisions. In 2022, the programme provided capacity development to the Office of the National Statistics Committee (NSC), and other responsible public bodies on collecting statistics based on recent legislative amendments related to gender-based violence, to develop standardised reporting forms and ethical protocols for the use of VAWG data as well as digitise case management. These efforts…