Training of Trainers (ToT) Workshop on Decent Work for Domestic Workers (DWDW) in Bogor

In general, domestic workers in Indonesia are vulnerable to a wide range of abuses and exploitation, including excessive working hours, unpaid wages, forced confinement, physical and/or sexual abuse, forced labor and trafficking. Apart from their high contribution in the households, vulnerability of DWs is continuing.

A. Background and Justification

The ILO Jakarta is currently implementing PROMOTE project aiming at promoting Decent Work for Domestic Workers (DWDW) and at eliminating child labor in the domestic work sector. One of the project components is to strengthen the capacity of relevant counterparts particularly DW Organizations, trade unions and government to be more effective in promoting decent work for domestic workers and in eliminating child domestic workers in Indonesia. The ILO Promote project and its partners have been intensively conducting various activities in the target provinces namely Makassar, Surabaya, Lampung and greater Jakarta in the context of promotion of rights of domestic workers and domestic workers organizing.

In general, domestic workers in Indonesia are vulnerable to a wide range of abuses and exploitation, including excessive working hours, unpaid wages, forced confinement, physical and/or sexual abuse, forced labor and trafficking. Apart from their high contribution in the households, vulnerability of DWs is continuing. Many views that this situation is particularly due to exclusion of DWs from labor law and lack of provision to outreach DWs who live in the private premises.
Therefore, responding to such situation, as part of Promote project’s action plan, the project will conduct training for counterparts both at national and provincial level using the existing manual, among other:
  • Decent Work for Domestic Workers Manual in Asia and the Pacific which adapted from ILO Bangkok. The training manual is specifically aimed at (1) gaining recognition of domestic work as work like any other, (2) ensuring respect for and dignity of domestic workers, and (3) achieving decent working conditions for domestic workers.
  • Raising One Voice: A Training Manual for Advocates on the Rights of Child Domestic Workers which originally developed by Child Workers in Asia.
  • Adult Learning and Participatory Training Manual, User Guide of the 3-R Trainers Kit, ILO. This additional manual is specifically aimed to address learning principles, facilitation skills, and training organization.
The project expects the training will enhance the knowledge on decent work for domestic workers and on the elimination of child domestic labor.

The project will specifically target trainers and organizers of the Project main partners (KAPPRTBM, JALA PRT and JARAK and its coalition members) and relevant government officials both from national and province level.

B. Strategies

The project will conduct a series of training: 1 training of trainers (TOT) at national level and 3 provincial training in the target province namely Makassar, Surabaya and Lampung. The national level training combines participants from national level and from JABODETABEK. The project will hire qualified facilitator to deliver the TOT at national level who will be assisted by PROMOTE Project staff (in this case Capacity Building Officer) and a number of Ministry of Manpower Staff who are alumni of ITC-ILO’s Decent Work for Domestic Workers Training. Meanwhile, at provincial level, the trainer participants from provinces trained in the national level ToT will be required to undertake a TOT workshop in their respective provinces, assisted by Promote staff in each Province.

C. Objectives

  • To enhance capacity of participants on promoting decent work for domestic workers (DWDW) and reducing child domestic workers (CDWs);
  • To build the capacity of DWOs in preparing, organizing, and facilitating training on promoting DWDW and reducing CDWs for domestic workers; and
  • To arm the DWOs with training facilitation skills to be adopted during delivering training to (child) domestic workers, their parents and communities.