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Two day Workshop on

finalizing the Implementation modalities for

Home Based workers Policy/Law in Sindh

29-30 June 2016

Hotel Marriot, Karachi

Organized By: HomeNet Pakistan

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List of Acronyms

HBWWCA Home base women worker association center

HNP HomeNet Pakistan

SWD Social welfare department

WDD Women development department

SESSI Sind employees social security institution

PESSI Punjab employees social security institution

DOL Department of labor

BMST Business Management Skill Training

CMST Community Management Skill Training

DoL Department of labour

WDD Women development department

SWD Social welfare department

LG Local Government

PPP Pakistan People’s Party

PMLN Pakistan Muslim League (nawaz)

PMLQ Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid e Azam )

PSD Punjab skill development

SIRA Sindh Industrial Relation Authority

DoL Department of Labour

LHRD Labour and Human Resource Department

DDoL District Department of Labour

PCSW Provincial Commission on the status of women

OSH Occupational, Safety and Health

NCSW National Commission on the status of women

WEP Women Empowerment Package

HBW Homebased worker

DW Domestic Worker

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Rationale of the Workshop HomeNet Pakistan is directly involved in the advocacy and lobbying with the parliamentarians and

government departments for mainstreaming of the HBWs issues. With the support from UN women

and ILO in post devolution scenario the LHRD had been engaged in the HBWs policy process at the

provincial level. The finalization of the HBWs policy in Sindh and the processes adopted had been

shared with the parliamentarians and relevant stakeholders including the employer’s federations,

workers representatives and HBWs organizations time and again and their advice, recommendations

sought during the project period, and also as a continuous process of advocacy by HNP.

Since 2013 LHRD Sindh have shown commitment on the HBWs issues and had desired to have more

consultative session on developing a better understanding on the HBWs issues and giving it a concrete

shape by brining in the policy and law and implementation it with full zeal.

HomeNet Pakistan with the support of ILO and LHRD Sindh is organizing a two day activity for

developing implementation mechanism for the protection of HBWs.

Main Objectives of the Two Day Workshop:

The main objective was to bring the HBWs legislative draft into practical implementation plan through

holding this two day consultative workshop with LHRD officials, Workers and employers representatives

to finalize the implementation mechanism for HBWs legislative draft.

The purpose of the workshop was to engage relevant stakeholders in tripartite consultative process to

finalize implementation plan for HBWs in Sindh. The representatives from Labour and Human Resource,

Women Development, Social Welfare, Local government and planning and development departments,

Pakistan workers and employers’ federations, representatives from 7 district action committees, home based

workers , domestic workers , Agri workers and fishery workers along with relevant key line departments

and stakeholders participated in the workshop.

Methodology Adopted:

The two day workshop was organized in collaboration with ILO and Labour and Human resource

Department Sindh. The two day workshop methodology were mix of sessions using different tools like

PowerPoint presentations, documentaries, plenary, group work,

The workshop was consist of sessions on Informal sector , dialogue on the Importance of the HBWs

in Economy , PowerPoint presentation on the present processes , Successes models from Asia ,

discussion in Plenary on HBWs Draft Bill , Group work and Question/Answer Session.

Target Group: 1- Department of Labour

2- Pakistan workers federation

3- Employers federation of Pakistan

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4- Line departments (Women development, Planning and development, Local government, social

welfare, finance department, Special Initiatives department, Provincial Bureau of statistics)

5- Representatives of District Action committees from Hyderabad, Thatta, Sanghar, Sukkur,

NawabShah, Dadu and Mithi)

6- HBWs organizations, Federations, Unions representatives, NTUF, Fisher folk forum.

7- CSO (PILER, Aurat Foundation, SPO, TRDP, LEF, SAFCO, WDO,)

8- Representatives of Agri and Fishery Unions.

Expected Outcomes:

1. Increased knowledge of 40 stakeholders (LHRD, Workers representatives, Employers) on

Informal sector issues specifically HBWs issues.

2. Increased knowledge on initiatives for HBWs and draft legislation.

3. Final draft of the Implementation plan for protection of HBWs in Sindh.

4. Consensus among the tripartite bodies for protecting the HBWs and other workers in the Informal Economy

5. Establishment of the “Directorate of the Informal Economy” within the LHRD.

Results: 1. Draft implementation plan for the protection of HBWs at the provincial level.

2. Agreement on the Establishment of “Directorate/Unit of the Informal Economy” within the

LHRD.

Day 01, Wednesday 29 July, 2016

Inaugural of the Workshop

The Two Day on finalizing the Implementation modalities for Home Based workers Policy/Law in Sindh

was started by welcome note by representative fromHomeNet Pakistan.

The workshop was formally started with the recitation of the Holy Quran by Mr. Abdul Ghaffar Sherani

from DAC Hyderabad, there was round of introduction in which the participants introduced with their

names, designations and departments.

Ume Laila Azhar Executive Director HomeNet Pakistan presented key note address to the participants, she

said that the main purpose of the workshop was to engage relevant stakeholders in tripartite consultative

process to finalize implementation plan for HBWs in Sindh. We are looking forward towards productive

output from all stakeholders; the final implementation plan of HBWs policy would be shared with LHRD

Sindh.

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The workshop proceeded by following the agenda:

Session I

Title: Importance of the Informal economy and situation in Pakistan

Chair: Dr Mustafa Suhag

Moderator: Ume Laila Azhar

Speakers

HNP/HBWs

DWs Union Representatives

Mr. Waqar Memon from Pakistan Workers Federation

Mr. Ayoub Shaan from Pakistan Fisher Folk Forum

Concluded by:Mr. Habib ud Din Junedi Convener Sindh Solidarity Committee The session I was about the importance of Informal economy and situation in Pakistan, it was categorized

into different informal sectors and speakers were representatives from HomeBased, Domestic, Agri and

Fishery Workers shared their issues.

i) Home Based Workers:

Home Based Worker Leader HomeNet Pakistan from Baldiya Town Karachi highlights the issues and ways

of organizing home based workers,

She said HBWs are facing issues of low wages, extreme poverty and bad governance issues; they don’t

have access towards markets, we are living under hardships but no policy or laws look into this. There are

no specific schemes for us, not a single mechanism of ascertaining wages, no complaint mechanism, and

no health security has ensured by Government for us”

She further added that HomeNet Pakistan supported us and formed our groups through organizing and

mobilizing strategy. We the workers have resolved our issues related to bad governance in our areas, still a

large number of workers don’t have access towards their basic legal rights and other opportunities, we urge

Government of Sindh for speedy approval of policy.

ii) Domestic Workers

There are approximately 8.5 million domestic workers in Pakistan, most of them women, they also

include a large number of boys and girls, domestic workers were a significant portion of the informal

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economy. These workers remain unregulated, are not covered by labour laws…are also vulnerable

to all kinds of exploitation.

HomeNet Pakistan in collaboration of The Plan International Pakistan in year 2011, helped domestic

workers of Islamabad and Rawalpindi last year to set up first of its kind union in Pakistan. “HomeNet

Pakistan worked for over two years with the workers to convince them to form a union/association.

Later on, in this year 2015 another component of Domestic Workers was added up to organize

Domestic Workers and to push up the advocacy process of policy practice & implementation at

provincial level in Punjab and Sindh including Lahore and Karachi, HomeNet Pakistan conducted

baseline survey, for this HNP team developed questionnaire around the basic issues of Domestic

workers related to their Household, socio-economic status, wages, discrimination they have faced

during their work, capacity building for providing them alternative skills, and issues faced on basis of

religion. 200 women Domestic Workers responded as per questions asked in database.

A DW leader Kalsoon from Itehad Town Karachi said “Each domestic worker employed in the house,

whether a child or a good old’ massi ji, that it’s very clear to them that they are less of a human being

and that it is ok to treat them differently. We pay them to work of course and give them leftover food

but they cannot sit with us or eat in our dishes. I asked my mother this question and she said “beta

because they are dirty.” She further added that “Majority of DWs women are not receiving any financial

aid from Government announced packages for women empowerment including BISP, Women

empowerment schemes announced for the women socio-economic development etc. In many areas of

Karachi, hundreds of Technical & Vocational education centers for women artisans are not

functional”. The issues are also related to the interfaith harmony, low confidence, harassment, low

wages etc.Thus it is a dire need to demand policy formulation for domestic workers in Sindh.

iii) Agriculture Workers

Mr. WaqarMemon Chairman Pakistan Workers Federation

highlighted the issues of agriculture workers in Sindh; he

recommended making amendments in laws for social security

of agri- workers. He also stressed the fact that occupational

health and safety laws needs to be extend to the Agriculture

workers. The union of the agri workers present on the occasion

shared how the union is working in developing the

bargaining skills of the workers. He demanded there is needed

to make amendments in other labour laws like

amendments made in SIRA for agri-workers. Karachi: Mr. Waqar Memon highlighting the issues of Agri-Workers in Sindh

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iv) Pakistan Fisher Folk Forum

Mr. Ayoub Shaan from Pakistan Fisher Folk Forum demanded

to formulate laws for social protection of fishery workers in

Sindh. More than 40 lac workers are working in the fishery

sector.

The main issue is of the health and economic protection. The

women from the fishery sector are now leaving the sector due

to low wage and shifting to home base work and domestic

work.

Q/A Session In /Q/A session, the participants were asked questions related to formulation of domestic workers policy,

Dr. Mustafa Suhag appreciated HNP’s efforts to bring forward the issues of DWs that is usually ignored.

He said that till women do not get their rights and are not oppressed, this country cannot go forward and

that developed countries have reached their place only by giving their women equality. He, too, said that

the base is to recognize DWs as labours. He said that it is sad that in DWs are not even defined in any law.

This consultation is a beginning of the process. This meeting wouldn’t change DWs lives overnight but this

marks as the start of a process that will get DWs the rights they are entitled to. The issues will first be

highlighted, then it will be taken to governmental level, then to employers’ level, and when unions raise the

issue of DWs it will become one united voice for the rights of DWs. When the government then gets to the

issue, it will be seen in the context of the country and the provinces but he assured that once it comes on

the agenda of the government, things will move towards the solution, he further assured that Sindh

government will soon notify the task force for formulation of DW policy in Sindh.

Conclusion of Session I

The session I was concluded by Mr. Habib

ud Din JunediConvener Sindh Solidarity

Committee

Mr. Habib ud Din Junedi Convener Sindh

Solidarity Committee concluded the session

I, he said that after 18thamendments, it is

now important to formulate laws for

informal sector workers, there is need to

allocate budget for HBWs policy

implementation after approval of policy.

Karachi: Mr. Junedi Convener Sindh Solidarity Committee concluding the

session I

Karachi: Mr. Ayoub sharing situational analysis of fishery workers in Sindh

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Session II

ILO commitments on Informal Economy and Global Trends

R 204-2015

ILC 2016 on Global supply chains

Q & A/Comments

Chaired by: Mr. Ghulam Nabi Memon Joint Director LHRD Sindh

Moderator: Ume Laila Azhar

Speakers

Ms. Ume Laila Azhar Executive Director HomeNet Pakistan

Mr. Karamat Executive Director PILER

Concluded by: Dr Mustafa Suhaag Director Labour

Ms. Ume Laila Azhar, in session II said

that by keeping in view the new global

emerging trends in the informal economy

and the transition from the Informal sector

to the Informal economy in the year 2015

ILO has adopted a Formal definition of

Informal economy making it exclusive.

According to the definition of ILO

recommendation 204-2015 “All economic

activities by workers and economic units

that are – in law or in practice – not

covered or insufficiently covered by

formal arrangements. The commitment

and goal of the ILO is to promote “Decent

Work” along the entire continuum from

the informal to the formal end of the

economy in development-oriented,

poverty reduction-focused and gender-

equitable ways. Therefore, it becomes imperative that the informal economy and the workers contributing

in the informal economy need to be protected under one mechanism. Sindh Industrial relation Act has

included Agriculture and fishery workers and they have formed unions now. Likewise HBWs and Domestic

worker need to be included in the SIRA and brought under social protection regime. Stating example of

India, she said that State government of India have introduced smart cards for the “unorganized sector

workers” covering their social protection needs. 88% of India’s populations work in unorganized sector.

The scheme would be launched in phases and in the initial phase target is to issue 10 crore UWIN cards. It

will be a chip based card and 40 crore workers would get benefit. She urged the need to replicate the same

in Pakistan and Sindh could pilot the scheme because the environment for

Karachi: Ume Laila Azhar sharing views on R-204

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informal workers is more conducive .She said that this workshop would pave a way for the establishing a

“Directorate/Unit of Informal workers” within the Province in order to register the workers in the informal

economy , predominantly HBWs, DWs Agri, fishery workers in future.

ILC 2016 on Global supply chains

Mr. Karamat Ali Executive Director PILER

said every workers matter in global supply chain

process. All conventions of ILO are based on

ground realities, the self employed or informal

workers are large in numbers in Pakistan

including Sindh, there are 8000 unions are

currently registered in Pakistan having

membership of 400,000 workers which is

relatively low as compared to other developing

countries, he urged that Government must

announce policy of HBWs which is being

delayed from a long time.

Q/A Session The floor was open for questions and discussion where the labour officers mainly discussed the procedure

of implementation of the policy.

Mr. Ghualm Nabi Memon Joint Director Labour Sindh responded that The Labour Department has

identified three time frames for the implementation of the policy and to bring HBWs within the social

protection mechanism: short, mid and long term. In short term, the aim is to recognize HBWs as workers,

they be registered, and they be given social security. In midterm, HBWs be given access to vocational

training institutes. Taking care of their health will also comprise a large part of midterm plan, in which

since most of HBWs are women health would largely deal with maternity health protection. The midterm

plan would also include inclusion of housing or marriage grants for HBWs and whatever laws are made are

women friendly. In long term, HBWs will be given micro credit facilities for marketing in local and

international markets and advisory services. There will be inclusion of HBWs in existing laws and

ratification of ILO Convention 177; it was recommended that another workshop will be organized by

HomeNet Pakistan where labour officers perform a day long activity to map out the implementation of

HBWs policy.

Conclusion of session II:

Dr Mustafa Suhaag Director Labour concluded the

session and said that a according to the policy draft, the

social security benefits must be ensured for the workers

including women & the law must be implemented at all

work places without any gender discrimination. He said

that HomeNet Pakistan’s contribution is remarkable in

policy advocacy of homebased workers in Pakistan he

added. Karachi: Dr Mustafa concluding the session

Karachi: Mr. Karamat ED PILER sharing views in workshop day 01

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Session III

Protection and regulation of HBWs

Protection Mechanism for HBWs in Sindh

Chair: Mr. Karamat Executive Director PILER

Moderator: Ume Laila Azhar

Speakers Mr. Ghulam Nabi Memon Joint Director LHRD Sindh

Concluded by: Mr. U R Usmani from Employers Federation of Pakistan

Protection Mechanism for HBWs in Sindh

Mr. Ghulam Nabi Memon Joint Director

LHRD Sindh has shared updates on social

protection mechanism for HBWs in Sindh; he

added that Government of Sindh has taken lead

in new policy formulation by keeping in view

the issues of homebased workers regarding their

social security issues. He shared that Labor

Department Sindh have formulated provincial

policy for occupational, safety and health Policy

and law in Sindh. The draft has been sent to the

cabinet for review & approval. Sindh Labour

department have amended 12 laws over the past

few months ensuring protection of workers. We

are very keen on taking the HBWs law further

and the data collection of HBWs workers in

other districts.

Provincial Implementation Plan for Home Based

workers

Guiding principles HBWs

The Government of Sindh recognizes its constitutional obligations and is inspired and guided by the

principles as enshrined in the relevant articles of the constitution in formulation of this policy.

• Gender Equality and Non-discrimination

• Elimination of Exploitation ,abuse and harassment

• Empowerment of women

• Social and economic well-being of the People

• Freedom of association

• Elimination of child labour

Karachi: Mr. Ghulfam Nabi Memon sharing view on HBWs policy Sindh

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Goal of the Provincial HBWs Policy Sindh

The goal of the policy is to recognize and accept the rights of the HBWs through legislative and

administrative actions; accord legal equality; focus on their needs, concerns and demands through an

institutional approach at all levels. The Government of Sindh shall recognize that HBWs as a special

category of workers¸ and distinct from domestic workers, that includes:

a) Person who works within the home boundaries, or in any other premises of his / her choice, but

excluding the premises of the employer’s or contractor’s workplace;

b) a person who works at home for remuneration or monetary returns;

c) a person who is self-employed or does piece-rate, own-account, or contract work, which results in a

product or services as specified by the employer / contractor.

Plans of HBWs policy Sindh

Short Term Medium Term Long Term

Recognition of HBWs as “Workers”

Registration of HBWs with labour

department, Social security

institutions EOBI and Workers

Welfare Board

Identification of categories of HBWs

through data collection

Identification/registration of

employers/contractor

Determination of fair / minimum

wages for HBWs across Province

Skill Development Trainings to HBWs through

STEVTA and other Vocational Training

Institutes for establishing their own businesses.

Specific reference to Maternity Protection along

with the other schemes.

Creating space for HBWs in the future planning

and legislation of the provinces in context of

urban housing schemes, infra structure, women

friendly laws etc

Setting up Micro Credit,

marketing and Advisory

Services for the HBWs at

the district level

Access to local and

international markets

New legislation for HBWs

and amendment in existing

labour laws.

Ensure Ratification of ILO

Convention 177.

Session III was concluded by Mr. U R Usmani from

Employers Federation of Pakistan

Mr. UR Usmnai from Employers Federation of Pakistan

supported the protection mechanism as planned for the HBWs.

He said that” law for HBWs needs to be implemented in full

spirit so that every single home based worker is protected and is

not left behind”. Sindh government can adopt the gild

mechanism and bring all the left out HBWs in the ambit, the law

can be piloted and then extended to all provinces; Usmani said. Karachi: Mr. UR Usmani speaking at the occasion

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Session IV

Chalking out of the Provincial Implementation plan

Facilitator: Mr. Ghulam Nabi Memon Joint Director LHRD Sindh

In this session, the participants were divided into three groups and below were the questions asked in

groups, a group was composed of 8-10 people from diversified departments

Facilitators ‘ Note

What HOW Who Challenges Solutions

Questions to generate

discussion : what

needs to be done to

ensure the

implementation of

HBWs as registered

workers ?

What can be done other

than as proposed in the

law?

Steps to be taken at :

Micro

Mezzo

Macro level

How will it be

ensured at the district

level, provincial

level? Which other

departments &

stakeholders you

think needs to be

involved?

What specific support

they can provide in

the implementation?

Which existing

schemes can be

linked to HBWs ?

What new schemes

can be introduced?

Who will take lead

in ensuring the

implementation?

Who would be

included? Who are

the Important and

key stakeholders?

What challenges

do you see in the

proposed plan of

action ?

Challenges at the

grass root level,

provincial level

and organizational

level?

From which

quarters do you see

the challenges ?

What are the

solutions in your

view ?

Who are the key

players in

addressing the

challenges ?

Karachi: Highlights of Group Work

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The recommendations from Group I was presented by Sana Rubab from PILER:

1. Keeping in view the growing informal sector, diversified configuration and paradigm of

the Informal Economy; and the recent amendments in the Sindh Industrial relation act

(SIRA) it was strongly recommended that there is need to establish “Directorate for

Informal workers” for registration of Informal workers including HBWs in Sindh.

2. The policy for HBWs in Sindh must

be approved from the Cabinet on immediate

basis and implementation of the legislation to

be ensured.

3. Prioritize the adoption of the Policy

on Home Based Workers and ensure its proper

implementation so as to guarantee women

access to social security benefits; and, take

measures to ensure that the correspondent

policy is adopted at the provincial level.

4. Department of Labour and human

Resource –Sindh ; needs to chalk out and

finalize the implementation plan for the

finalization of HBWs legislative draft based on the recommendations from the two day

workshop in a smaller close group of experts ensuring the tripartite presence.

5. There is need to allocate budget for HBWs policy implementation after approval of policy.

The recommendations’ from Group II were presented by Mr. Makhdom Taufeeq: 1. The establishment of provincial ombudsman

for monitoring of labour laws mechanism,

complaints for compliances and effective

policy implementation of HBWs must be

ensured.

2. Provisions for the registration of home base

workers and contractors should be devised

and implemented by the LHRD in order to

improve work structure and to make the

workers’ voice heard.

3. Ensure adoption and inclusion of the ILO

recommendation 204 R (2015) with regard to

extending the labour regime to the workers of

the informal sector.

4. Government of Sindh must notify task force to formulate policy for domestic workers.

5. Formulate policies for the social protection of fishery workers in Sindh by keeping in view

the huge number of fishery workers.

Karachi: Mr. Taufeeq presenting recommendations on behalf of group II

Karachi: Ms. Sana Rubab sharing recommendations on behalf of group I

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The Group III

Recommendations were presented by Ms. Shehla Rizwan HBW leader and Mr. Ayoub Shaan

from Pakistan Fisher folk forum:

1. LHRD with the support of organizations working for Home based workers need to initiate

awareness programs facilitating the process of forming small groups, syndicate,

2. Unions or cooperatives for solution of their problems and provision of the social protection

benefits to them.

3. Establishment of “One window operation”; an independent institution, instead of many social

security institutions, which can provide social security benefits to all the workers effectively.

4. LHRD in collaboration with the VTIs and other related departments should develop a

comprehensive plan for the capacity development of women in the informal sector, focusing

HBWs and Domestic workers , contractors, middle persons .

5. The issues related to disaster and other human crisis needs to be readdressed for informal

workers.

6. LHRD in collaboration with women development and health department and Home Net

Pakistan should initiate awareness raising sessions on occupational and safety for the women

in the informal economy focusing women home based,domestic, fisheries and agriculture .

7. There is need to recruit women labour inspectors and initiate programs for capacity building

of labour inspectors in Sindh. Enhance quota in the PCS positions of labour inspectors at

provincial and district level.

8. There is a need to strengthen

institutional capacities for the

generation and use of social

protection statistics for effective

policy planning for informal sector.

9. A unified and UNIVERSAL Social

Security Scheme must be designed to

not only address the contingencies but

also include measures to remove

/reduce the scope of contingencies.

The SSS must be designed in such a

way to insure the “get back’ from the

corporate, rather than extracting from people further.

10. Provisions for the establishment of “Sindh Social protection Authority” through law ; should

be explored on the lines of the Punjab Province .

Karachi: Ms. Shehla Rizwan and Mr. Ayoub Shaan sharing recommendations of group III

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The members from 7 districts including Sukkur, Mithi, Dadu, Hyderabad, Sanghar,Thatta and

Shaheed Benazir-a-bad City along with other relevant stakeholders chalked out implementation

on plans for HBWs in Sindh. They demanded approval of HBWs policy; they purposed

Government to initiate pilot projects for social security and registration of HBWs. Law for the

home based workers should include issuance of the exclusive social security cards for the workers

. The establishment of provincial ombudsman for monitoring of labour laws mechanism and

effective policy implementation of HBWs must be ensured; the participants demanded.

Closing of Day 01 The day 01 was closed after the group presentations; Ms. Ume Laila Azhar concluded the last session

and shared overall recommendations generated from the group work.

Group Photo A group photo of the present participants was captured before the aftaar dinner.

Karachi: Group Photo of the participants

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Day 02, 30 June 2016 Recap of Day 01 The day 02 was started with the recitation of the Holy Quran,

The recap session was divided into four parts; each participant has shared the recap of one session.

1. Mr. Abdul Ghaffar Sherani DAC Coordinator Hyderabad shared the recap of session I

2. Mr. Ayoub Shaan from Pakistan Fisher Folk Forum recapped the II session

3. Ms. Shakeela Asgar Social Mobilizer form NOW Communities shared the recap of session III

4. Ms. Sana Rubab from PLIER shared the recap of session IV

Recap Session is in progress

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Proceedings of Day 02

Mr.Abdul Rasheed Solongi

Secretary Labour Sindh started

the day 02 with formal key note, he

said that policy of HBWs has

been finalized and sent to the

cabinet for approval. We are

hopeful that Sindh would take

lead approving the HBWs policy.

He further added that this

workshop would surely serve the

purpose in bringing more clarity

to the LHRD in the

implementation of the HBWs

legislation and setting up a

district based mechanism.

Government of Sindh is

committed to take women

empowerment through ensuring

concrete steps; this would further ensure Economic empowerment of home based workers.

Session V

Chair : Mr. Karamat Ali Executive Director PILER

Moderator: Dr. Mustafa Suhaag Director Labour Sindh

Speakers:

Mr. Saghir Bukhari from ILO

Ms. Ume Laila Azhar Executive Director HomeNet Pakistan

Mr. Ghalam Nabi Memon Joint Director Labour Sindh

Concluded by: Senator Taj Haider

Protection and regulation of Informal Economy

ILC 2015-2016 on Informal economy and global supply chain

Successful models in Asia

Mr. Saghir Bukhari from ILO joined the session via Skype Call; he said that ILO along with

other UN agencies is very keen on taking the HBWs policy implementation forward to the next

step. He said that HBWs are found in the supply chains. ILO is committed towards workers decent

work protection and that include the home based workers and other informal workers .Bukhari

said that Homeworkers produce goods and services for both global and domesticsupply chains

from within and around their homes. Home-workers are a sub-set of “home-based workers” who

also include self-employed workers who buy their own raw materials and supplies and sell their

own finished goods, mainly to local customers and buyers.

Karachi: Mr.Abdul Rasheed Solongi Secretary Labour Sindh presenting key note

the day 02 on day 02

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Home-based workers represent a significant share of employment in some countries, particularly

for women, and especially in Asia. Under the most common sub-contracting arrangement, the

home workers provide the workplace, pay for utilities, and buy/rent and maintain their own

equipments.

Homeworkers in Global Supply Chains

• Homeworkers produce goods for global supply chains from within or around their own homes:

stitching garments and weaving textiles; stitching shoe-uppers and footballs; producing craft

products; processing and preparing food items; rolling incense sticks, cigarettes and cigars;

assembling or packaging electronics, automobile parts, and pharmaceutical products; and more.

• Although they remain largely invisible, homeworkers are engaged in many branches of industry—

old and new—and represent a significant share of employment in global supply chains, especially

in Asia.

• To cut costs and maximize profits, many firms outsource production to homeworkers, especially

women.

• Advances in technology have facilitated this outsourcing of production to homeworkers.

Homework in its modern form is therefore driven in large part by the purchasing practices of firms,

and is facilitated by changes in trade and technology.

• Outsourcing of work to homeworkers, and the associated downloading of costs and risks to these

workers, is therefore inextricably linked to recent shifts in how global production is organized.

How are homeworkers inserted into supply chains?

• Homeworkers produce goods and services for both global and domestic supply chains from within

and around their homes.

• Under the most common sub-contracting arrangement, the homeworkers provide the workplace,

pay for utilities, and buy/rent and maintain their own equipment.

Legal Protection

• There is a global standard — ILO Convention 177 on Homework, 1996 — which has been ratified

by ten countries. Argentina, Germany and Thailand have passed legislation specific to

homeworkers. Other countries, including Brazil, Peru and South Africa, have not ratified the

Convention, but have incorporated homeworkers into legislation regulating labour

relations. Homeworkers have also been included through supply chain legislation.

• South Australia’s Fair Work Act, that regulates the entire supply chain in the textile, footwear and

clothing industries, was amended in 2012 to include homeworkers. However, the implementation

and enforcement of legislation to protect homeworkers is limited, even where countries have

ratified C 177.

Successful models in Asia Ms. Ume Laila Azhar presented the successful models in Asia; she said that The UN CSO adopted a vision

statement in June 2013

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“An equitable and sustainable world where every person is safe, resilient, lives well and enjoys

their human rights, and where political and economic systems deliver well being for all people

within the limits of our planet’s resources.”

Current social protection structures and

policies

Hong Kong

• Setting up of statutory Minimum Wage

in 2011 is a major improvement of social

protection in HK especially for the

working poor. The first SMW rate was

3.6 $ per hour in 2011 (28 HK $) raised

to 3.8 US $ (30 HKD) in 2013 . 7 percent

employees could get benefit from the

increase in the SMW.

• HK resident can apply to

“Comprehensive Social Security

Assistance “(CSSA) scheme if they

cannot support themselves financially.

• Social organizations keep pressurizing the government to raise the Minimum wage to 4.5 US $ and

to renew the SMW annually. The SMW may be adjusted based on the basic living cost of the

Workers and their family members which us the principle of UN ICESCR and ILO Minimum wage

fixing convention.

Thailand

Thailand has several social protection schemes that different types of individuals are entitled to ,

subject to the eligibility requirement of the particular scheme.

National Health Security Scheme: The National Health security Act as 2002 aims to provide

universal health care that will cover all THAI citizens. The problem with NHSS is the difference

in the level of protection that different types of workers receive. In particular the workers in the

formal sector are more protected than the poor and the informal sector workers.

Social Protection in Philippines

There are four components of social protection as outlined below:

Labour market programmes and interventions: Theses includes policies and programmes

designed to promote employment, efficient operations of labour markets, and protection of workers.

• Examples are minimum wage fixing, collective bargaining, employment facilitation and

government provided skills trainings and upholding the core labour standards and basis workers’

rights such as the right of security of tenure, right to freedom of association and right to strike.

Legislative Initiatives taken in Pakistan

Karachi: Ume Laila sharing successful models in Asia

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Mr. Ghulam Nabi Memon Joint Director LHRD Sindh has shared updates on legislative initiatives for

HBWs in Pakistan, he added that Government of Sindh is taking lead in new policy formulation by keeping

in view the issues of homebased workers regarding their social security issues; Labor Department

Sindh in collaboration with Government &

different organizations formed joint action

forum & formulated provincial policy for

occupational, safety and health issues of

workers in Sindh, the draft has been sent to

cabinet for review & approval.

According to the policy draft, the social

security benefits must be ensured for the

workers including women & the law must be

implemented at all work places without any

gender discrimination. HomeNet Pakistan’s

contribution is remarkable in policy advocacy

of homebased workers in Pakistan he added.

Demands from Pakistan:

Ratification of the ILO Homework Convention 177 (1996)

Governments must ratify and implement the ILO Convention on Homework 177 (1996), as a matter

of urgency, especially in countries with large concentrations of home workers. Governments should

also follow the guidelines spelt out in the ILO Recommendation No. 184 which accompanied

Convention 177.

Laws and Regulations

National governments should pass national laws and policies that reflect the provisions of

Convention 177 and extend labour laws and labour protections to home workers.

Governments must amend existing legislation or promulgate and enforce other appropriate and

supportive laws and regulations, such as supply chain legislation.

Statistics and Information

There must be systematic collection of data on home workers by national governments. This means

that a questions on the place of work, as well as questions that determine the status of employment

need to be incorporated into national labour force surveys, including:

Numbers of homeworkers by sex (special attention should be paid to ensure that women are

included as respondents in surveys), and Composition of homeworkers by sectors/products and, if

possible, whether they produce for domestic or global supply chains, or both.

Social Protection

Social protection benefits should be extended to homeworkers, or new social protection coverage

must be devised for homeworkers and access to these schemes must be simple and easy. Social

protection should include affordable and accessible health care, sick pay, occupational health and

safety coverage, disability insurance for old-age pensions, maternity benefits, and childcare.

Occupational Health and Safety

Karachi: Mr. Ghulfam Nabi Memon sharing demands from Pakistan

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Homeworkers must enjoy support for a healthy and safe workplace from the lead

firm/supplier/intermediary including: safe equipment, protective gear, and training related to

occupational health and safety

Implementation and Enforcement Law

Ensure law implementation and enforcement

Session VI

Discussion on the Setting up of the Directorate of the Informal Economy in Sindh

Philippines Model

Possibilities , Way outs

Development of PC 1

The session VI was started by Ms. Ume Laila Azhar; she presented Philippines’ Social Protection

Framework and Strategy.

THE PHILIPPINES SOCIAL PROTECTION FRAMEWORK AND STRATEGY The Cluster commissioned the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) in 2009 to conduct an

assessment of social welfare and protection programs in the country entitled "Review and Strengthening of

the National Social Protection and Welfare Program". The study results recommended that social welfare

programs need to be harmonized in order to avoid overlaps and improve targeting of areas and beneficiaries.

It was also recommended that government needs to harmonize and coordinate poverty reduction with social

protection especially in crafting interventions and strategies

The adopted framework is envisaged to serve as the overall guide for implementing social protection

programs / interventions and other policies related to SP. The core of the framework is the underlying

purpose and objective of social protection which is better and improved quality of life for its

beneficiaries. It is contextualized within the over-all inclusive development goals and poverty strategy of

the country – “to empower and protect the poor, vulnerable and disadvantaged individuals, families and

communities from individual life cycle, economic, environmental and social risks” (Chapter 8, Philippine

Development Plan 2011-2016).

Specific objectives of social protection programs include to:

a. protect and prevent people from falling from their current income/consumption levels due to

various risk factors

b. build capacity and adaptability to ensure that better quality of life is maintained and sustained,

c. expand opportunities for income expansion and improve human capital investments in the long

term,

d. sustain standard of living in spite of exposure to risks of different types 2

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Targeting of Social Protection

Program Beneficiaries

The National Household

Targeting System for Poverty

Reduction (NHTS-PR) or

“Listahanan” is an information

management system that

identifies who and where the poor

are in the country. The system

makes available to national

government agencies and other

social protection stakeholders a

database of poor families as

reference in identifying potential beneficiaries of social protection programs.4

Issuances related to this initiative include the following:

1. National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) Resolution No. 18, Series of 2009 - “Recognizing

and Enjoining Support to the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction being

Implemented by the Department of Social Welfare and Development as a Tool to Identify

Beneficiaries of Social Protection Programs”

2. Executive Order 867 (March 2010) - Provides for the Adoption of the NHTS-PR as the Mechanism

for Identifying Poor Households Who Shall be Recipients of Social Protection Programs

Nationwide

Closing Remarks by Senator Taj Haider Senator Taj Haider said “Home based workers policy

would soon be approved by Sindh Government’. This was

stated by Senator Taj Haider speaking at the concluding

session of a two day workshop on finalizing the

implementation modalities for home based workers policy

in Sindh The event was jointly organized by HomeNet

Pakistan in collaboration with Labour and Human

Resource Department Sindhand International Labour

Organization (ILO) at Karachi on 29-30th June, 2016.

“There is a need to bring these skilled workers under the

social protection net and provide opportunities to them to

start their small level business”, said Mr. Senator. He

further added that “one need to learn and replicate the Banarsi hand weavers’ initiative of Khairpur in all

parts of Pakistan’.

Recommendations:

Karachi: Senator Taj Haider sharing views in 2 Day Workshop

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The following important recommendation that generated from the two Day Workshop and

waspresented by Ume Laila Azhar at the end of workshop:

1) Keeping in view the growing informal sector, diversified configuration and paradigm of the

Informal Economy; and the recent amendments in the Sindh Industrial relation act (SIRA) it was

strongly recommended that there is need to establish “Directorate for Informal workers” for

registration of Informal workers including HBWs in Sindh.

2) The policy for HBWs in Sindh must be approved from the Cabinet on immediate basis and

implementation of the legislation to be ensured.

3) Prioritize the adoption of the Policy on Home Based Workers and ensure its proper implementation

so as to guarantee women access to social security benefits; and, take measures to ensure that the

correspondent policy is adopted at the provincial level.

4) Department of Labour and human Resource –Sindh ; needs to chalk out and finalize the

implementation plan for the finalization of HBWs legislative draft based on the recommendations

from the two day workshop in a smaller close group of experts ensuring the tripartite presence.

5) There is need to allocate budget for HBWs policy implementation after approval of policy.

6) The establishment of provincial ombudsman for monitoring of labour laws mechanism , complaints

for compliances and effective policy implementation of HBWs must be ensured.

7) Provisions for the registration of home base workers and contractors should be devised and

implemented by the LHRD in order to improve work structure and to make the workers’ voice

heard.

8) Ensure adoption and inclusion of the ILO recommendation 204 R (2015) with regard to extending

the labour regime to the workers of the informal sector.

9) Government of Sindh must notify task force to formulate policy for domestic workers.

10) Formulate policies for the social protection of fishery workers in Sindh by keeping in view the huge

number of fishery workers.

11) HBWs and Domestic worker need to be included in the SIRA and brought under social protection

regime. Amendments for the inclusion of the categories in SIRA to be presented by the LHRD.

12) Prepare a plan of action for the protection of women working in other areas of the informal sector,

such as agriculture and domestic work in line with the ILO Conventions.

13) Send recommendations to the Federal government for the Ratification ILO Convention No. 177 on

Home-based work, as well as ILO Convention No. 189 on decent work for domestic workers.

14) Ensure the inclusion of a recommendation demanding Ratification of C 177 and C 189 in the

Provincial tripartite committee agenda .

15) Provisions for the inclusion of work category of Home based workers in the Sindh Labour force

survey should be expedited for effective policy planning and implementation.

16) Law for the home based workers should include issuance of the exclusive social security cards for

the workers across sector.

17) The wages for the home-based workers across all sectorshould be fixed under the Minimum Wages

laws.

18) Provisions for the introduction of “SMART CARDS” for workers of the Informal Economy

following the examples neighboring country India. Federal Government of India has introduced

smart cards for the “unorganized sector workers” covering their social protection needs. 88% of

India’s population works in unorganized sector. The scheme would be launched in phases and in

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the initial phase target is to reach out to 10 crore informal workers and issue UWIN cards. The need

is to replicate the same in Pakistan and Sindh could pilot the scheme.

19) Home-based workers should be provided market access so that they can sell their products easily

and earn honorable livelihood for living decent lives. Provisions to be provided for free market

spaces in Sunday, Friday and Tuesday Bazars by issuing a notification though Local government

department.

20) Informal Workers working in hazardous situations should be provided alternative livelihoods skills

and vocational training; and their children should be offered higher education scholarships.

21) LHRD with the support of organizations working for Home based workers need to initiate

awareness programs facilitating the process of forming small groups, syndicate, unions or

cooperatives for solution of their problems and provision of the social protection benefits to them.

22) Establishment of “One window operation”; an independent institution, instead of many social

security institutions, which can provide social security benefits to all the workers effectively.

23) LHRD in collaboration with the VTIs and other related departments should develop a

comprehensive plan for the capacity development of women in the informal sector, focusing HBWs

and Domestic workers , contractors, middle persons .

24) The issues related to disaster and other human crisis needs to be readdressed for informal workers.

25) LHRD in collaboration with women development and health department and Home Net Pakistan

should initiate awareness raising sessions on occupational and safety for the women in the informal

economy focusing women home based, domestic, fisheries and agriculture .

26) There is need to recruit women labour inspectors and initiate programs for capacity building of

labour inspectors in Sindh. Enhance quota in the PCS positions of labour inspectors at provincial

and district level.

27) There is a need to strengthen institutional capacities for the generation and use of social protection

statistics for effective policy planning for informal sector .

28) A unified and UNIVERSAL Social Security Scheme must be designed to not only address the

contingencies but also include measures to remove /reduce the scope of contingencies. The SSS

must be designed in such a way to insure the “get back’ from the corporate, rather than extracting

from people further.

29) Provisions for the establishment of “Sindh Social protection Authority” through law; should be

explored on the lines of the Punjab Province .

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Evaluation of the Workshop

In the end, the evaluation of the workshop was conducted through disseminating evaluation forms

among 35 participants. The participants were asked questions related to the content and information

used for the workshop, 55% participants responded that workshop was well organized, while 7%

responded to some extent it was useful, also 31% responded that it was extremely useful at large extent.

Majority of the respondent answered that material provided in the workshop was relevant to their

routine work; similarly 54% responded that workshop methods were quite beneficial.

Below are the results calculated through graphs and percentage analysis:

Workshop was well orgnized Use full

55%

Workshop was well orgnized to a large

extent 31%

Workshop was well orgnized to some extant

7%

Workshop was well orgnized not much

0%

Workshop was well orgnized Average

7%

Program ContentWorkshop was well organized

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The information provided was

adequate Use full, 58.5% The information

provided was adequate to a large extent

,34.5%

The information provided was

adequate to some extant , 7%

Workshop Material

Use full, 14, 48.2% to a large

extent , 13, 44.8%

to some extant , 2, 7%

Workshop MethodsDiscussion During the session were useful for clarifying ideas

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Annexure: 1- Agenda

2- Matrix

3- Media Clippings

4- Evaluation form

5- Attendee

1- Agenda:

Timings Topics Discussant

29 June 2016, Day I

01.30 Registration

02.00 Welcome and Introduction HNP

02.15 Objectives of the Two day

Workshop

HNP

02.30 Welcome Remarks HNP Ume Laila Azhar

02.40 Opening remarks by ILO Mr Saghir Bukhari(TBC)

03.00 Key Note by LHRD Mr Abdul Rasheed

Solongi, Secretary Labour

and Human Resource

03.15 Importance of the Informal

economy and situation in

Pakistan

Home based workers

Domestic Workers

Agri workers

Fishery workers

Q & A

-HNP/HBWs

-DWs Union

Representatives

-PWF-Waqar Memon

-Mr. Ayoub Shaan from

Pakistan Fisher Folk

Forum

-Representative of Fishery

union

Presentations

04.15 ILO commitments on Informal

Economy and Global Trends

R 204-2015

ILC 2016 on Global supply

chains

Q & A/Comments

-Ume Laila Azhar

-Mr Zulfiqar Shah , PILER

-Zehra Akbar , HBWWF

Presentations

04.45 Protection and regulation of

HBWs

Protection Mechanism for

HBWs in Sindh

Q & A/comments

-Gulfam Nabi Memon -

LHRD

-U R Usmani- EFP

-Waqar Memon -PWF

-Nasir Mansoor - NTUF

Presentations

Plenary

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HBW

05.00 Chalking out of the Provincial

Implementation plan

Group work

06:00 Group presentations

06.45 Break for Iftar

Close of Day one at Dinner

08.30 30 June 2016 , Day two

08.30 Recap

08.45 Protection and regulation of

Informal Economy

ILC 2015-2016 on Informal

economy and global supply

chain

Successful models in Asia

Legislative Initiatives taken

in Pakistan

Q & A

-Mr Saghir Bukhari -ILO

-Ume Laila Azhar-HNP

-Gulfam Nabi Memon -

LHRD

Presentations

Plenary

10.00 Discussion on the Setting up of the

Directorate of the Informal

Economy in Sindh

Philippines Model

Possibilities , Way outs

Development of PC 1

Q & A

HNP

Mr Saghir Bukhari

ILO

Dr Mustafa Suhaag-

LHRD

Plenary

11.00 Social Protection for workers in

the Informal economy

-Women Development

-Social Welfare Department

-LHRD

- P & D

-Local Government

-Special Initiatives

Q & A

Representatives from

Government of Sindh

Plenary

12.30 Wrap up HNP/ILO/LHRD

01.30 Closing remarks and way

forward

ILO/LHRD

02.00 Vote of thanks HNP

Lunch and departure

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2- Matrix of Issues VS Recommendations

Sr

N

o

Issue Categor

y

Recommendation Action to be taken

1 Labour

inspection

and women

Formal

and

informal

sector

Women Labour inspector to be

appointed labour department.

Women Labour inspector quota

to be increased at 33 % and

provision of adequate service,

facilities to women labour

inspectors.

A resolution to be moved in Sindh

Assembly and inclusion of

amendment /clause for women

representation

2 Social

protection for

HBWs and

Domestic

Workers

Informal HBWs and Domestic worker

need to be included in the SIRA

and brought under social

protection regime.

Amendments for the inclusion

of the categories in SIRA to be

presented by the LHRD.

1- A resolution to be moved in

Sindh Assembly from LHRD

2- Provisions for the introduction

of “SMART CARDS” for

workers of the Informal

Economy following the

examples neighboring Country

India.

3 Labour force

survey and

women

participation

ration

Informal

sector

Inclusion of work category for

informal sector e.g. HBWs and

DW in the LFS

A Resolution.

Labour Department Directive

4 HBWs

Access to

markets

Formal

and

informal

sector

Home-based workers should be

provided market access so that

they can sell their products

easily and earn honorable

livelihood for living decent

lives. Provisions to be provided

for free market spaces in

Sunday, Friday and Tuesday

Bazaars by issuing a

notification though Local

government department.

1- Directives from Local

Government to provide

spaces/stalls in Weekly

Bazars.

2- Introduce HBWs work

sectors in Weekly Bazars

5 Occupational

safety and

health

Informal

sector

6. Extension of Occupational

safety and health to the

Informal sector namely

HBWs and DW

7. LHRD in collaboration

with women development

1- Resolution

2- Proposed Legislative bill

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and health department and

Home Net Pakistan should

initiate awareness raising

sessions on occupational

and safety for the women in

the informal economy

focusing women home

based , domestic , fisheries

and agriculture .

6 Protection of

Domestic

Workers

(DWs)

Informal

sector

Protection for DWs through

Policy and law

1- Resolution

2- Provincial Policy

3- Legislative bill

9 Vocational

and technical

trainings

Formal

and

informal

1- Vocational training

institutes to be established

at UC level for promotion

of skills for informal sector

women (HBWs). Need

based trainings to be

introduced.

2- For formal sector women

should be encouraged to get

trainings from the VTC for

getting jobs in factories .

Market Need based

trainings to be imparted

1- Resolution

2- Amendments in the law

3- Revision of PC1

4- Allocation of Budget

10 Wage

discriminatio

n

Formal

and

Informal

sector

1- For Formal sector women

are paid less than men for

the same job . This needs

to be discouraged and

Monitored .

2- For Informal sector wage

discrimination is 40

percent in Pakistan

therefore it is required to

be tackled . work category

of informal sector like

Bangle , embroidery ,

stitching , cropping,

agrabati making , beeri

making , toopi making ,

hand looms, block printing

need to added in the

minimum wage ordinance

through notification

1- Resolution

2- Monitoring mechanism

3- Inclusion of trade

/work category in the

Minimum wage

Ordinance

11 Information

services

Informal

sector

Establishing a women

labour desk for

informal sector women

1- Resolution

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2- Notification by the

department of

Labor

12 Education Informal

schools

Introducing adult literacy

centers for women in informal

sector

1- Resolution

2- Law

3- Allocation of

budget

13 Awareness

campaign

Formal

and

informal

Media awareness campaign to

be run by GOS on labour rights

of women

1- Resolution

2- Allocation of budget for

median and awareness

campaign

14 Women

representation

in trade

Unions

Formal

and

informal

33% representation of women

in the trade unions executive

bodies to be ensured

1- Resolution

2- Amendments in the law

by including clause

15 One Window

Operation for

Informal

workers

Formal

and

informal

Establishment of “One window

operation”; an independent

institution, instead of many

social security institutions,

which can provide social

security benefits to all the

workers effectively.

1- A Resolution draft to be

moved in CM Cabinet and

Sindh Assembly

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3- Media Clippings

The News 1st July 2016

https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/131917-Call-to-establish-provincial-directorate-for-informal-

workers

Daily Messenger 2nd July 2016

http://www.pressreader.com/

The regional times of Sindh 2nd July 2016 http://regionaltimes.com/02July2016/3.jpg

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4- Evaluation Form

EVALUATION FORM SAMPLE

Workshop title: Two Days workshop with department of labour Sindh and

other stakeholders on

Finalizing the Implementation modalities for Home Based workers Policy/Law

in Sindh Date:

29-30 June

2016

Participant

Name:

Organization

Name:

Please indicate your responses to the statements below by checking the appropriate box:

1. Program Content:

Ver

y

usef

ul

To a

large

extent

To

some

extent

Not

muc

h

Avera

ge

Poo

r

a. This workshop was relevant to the subject.

b. The workshop was well organized.

c. The workshop objectives were clear to me.

2. Workshop Material:

a. The information provided was adequate.

b. The text and handout material were easy to use.

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3. Workshop Methods:

a. The lectures/sessions were well organized and informative.

b. Discussions during the sessions were useful for clarifying ideas.

c. Time allocated to the sessions was sufficient.

5- Attendance Sheet

S.NO. NAME CONTACT NO. Day One Day Two

1 Ume Laila Azhar 0334-4225779

2 Mr. Abdul Rasheed Solangi

Secretary Labour, Sindh

021-99211551

3 Dr. Mustafa Suhag

Director Labour, Sindh

021-99204205

4 Mr. Gulfam Nabi Memon

Joint Director Labour, Sindh

0321-2058790

5 Syed Ashraf Ali Naqvi

Joint Director, Labour, Sukkur

0300-2478339

6 Mr. Muhammad Hussain Soomro

ADL

0302-2116266

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7 Syed Ather Ali Shah

ADL

0300-2850641

8 Mr. Faheem Akhtar Sheikh

ADL

0334-3628011

9 Ms. Nagina Junejo

Joint Director Labour

0333-2177230

10 Mr. Ali Gul

Labour Department Shikarpur

11 Mr. Shahid

Labour Department Sukkur

12 Mr. Ghulam Sattro

Labour Department Sukkur

13 Dr. Zahid Gulzar

Joint Director, Labour

0300-9286512

14 Mr. Khurram Ali Khan

Labour Inspector, Larkana

15 Sarfraz Awan

Joint Director, Labour

16 Mr. Sikandar Solangi

Labour Department

17 Mr. Raza Haider Mirza

Labour Department

0333-3049317

18 Mr. Reejhu S. Sanjnani

Asstt. Law Officer

0333-2755762

19 Sabiha Shah 021- 99211507

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20 Mr. Waqar Memon

P-112/3, Gulistan Colony (Old Chiragh

Colony) Quaidabad, Landhi,Karachi

0333-2227448

21 Kh. M. Nauman

President EFP

0300-8256004

22 Mr. U. R. Usmani

Chief Executive Consult Usmani

House No.A-131, Block-13/C

Gulshan-E-Iqbal, Karachi

0300-2268667

28 Mr. Karamat Ali 0300-8237528

29 Ms. Malka Khan

Aurat Foundation

-

30 Mr. Ali Haider 0307-2839354

31 Ms. Mussarat Jabeen 03352527820

32 Ms. Sabiha Shah

Women Development Organization

0321-4409176

33 Ms. Shehla Rizwan 0321-2941450

34 Ms. Shakeela Asghar 0343-2734311

35 Mr. Abdul Ghaffar Shirani

DAC, Hyderabad

0300-3067394

36 Mr. Aziz Ahmad Sarwan

DAC, Thatta

0301-3647561

37 Mr. Ali Hassan Mahar

AC, Sukkur

0300-3145972

38 Mr. Akhtiyar Tunio 0300-3239601

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DAC, Nawabshah

39 Mr. Abdul Majeed Mangrio

DAC, Sanghar

0333-2912837

40 Mr. Imran Korai

DAC. Dadu

0300-3270008

41 Mr. Partab Shivani

DAC, Mithi

0333-2663758

42 Ms. Mehwish Maria

43 Mr. Agha Haider

HomeNet Pakistan

0321-4276080

44 Mr. Imtiaz Ahmad

HomeNet Pakistan

0306-5387556

45 Ms. Danish Batool Zaidi

HomeNet Pakistan

0323-6825005

46 Malik Tahir

LRC

0300-6846828

47 Mr. Qamar-ul-Hassan 0332-2112320

48 Mr. Shafiq Ghauri 0332-2138211

49 Makhdum Taufeeq 0333-2175835

50 Mr. Habib Ullah Junaidi

516- Uni Plaza, I. I. Chundrigarh Road,

Karachi

0300-2107005

021-32419177

51 Ms. Naaz Majeed 0333-3184606

52 Mr. Taj Haider

Senator/ Coordinator to CM Sindh

0302-2248840

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53 Ms. Natasha Channa

HomeNet Pakistan

0311-6677333

54 MS. Rehana Yasmeen

HomeNet Pakistan

0333-2221426

55 Mr. Ayub Shan

Pakistan Fisher Folk Forum

0346-2150586

56 Ms. Munira Hirwani 0346-3233933

57 Ms. Shumaila Mumtaaz -

58 Ms. Nuzhat Habib -

59 Sibtain Mughal -

60 Shahida Parween -

61 Rabia Begum -

62 Talib Katchi -

63 Saeed Ahmed -

64 Nasim Bukhari -

65 Ali Gill -

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2 B -LDA Flats, Lawrence Road, Lahore, Pakistan

Tel. : + 92 42 36313186-87 Fax: + 92 42 36328289 Email: info.hnp@gmail.com

www.homenetpakistan.org

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