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BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT

Oxfam’s “Social Protection and Labour Rights for Women Workers in Agri-food Sector Programme” (2022–2026), funded by Belgium Government (DGD) works with partners across Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, as well as regional networks, to increase their capacity to influence policymakers towards more inclusive social protection and labour rights frameworks and instruments for agri-food sector workers. The programme focuses particularly on vulnerable women workers in the highly informal agri-food sector, including workers in micro, small and medium enterprises.

The programme is structured around the three pillars of the Decent Work framework: labour rights, social protection and inclusive social dialogue. It addresses challenges including climate change impacts, economic insecurity, occupational safety and health, weak labour law enforcement and gender inequalities, including gender-based violence and the disproportionate burden of unpaid care and domestic work. The programme applies rights-based and gender-transformative approaches and works through 16 local partners across the three countries, three regional partners supporting learning and knowledge building, and nine collaborators, including Oxfam country offices. The consultancy will draw on programme documentation, monitoring and evaluation evidence, outcome harvesting, research, policy and communication products, partner experiences and other resources generated during implementation.