*Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the
injustice of poverty.*
*BACKGROUND*
Asia is home of seafood producer in the world that more than 70% of its
supply has coming from this region. Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam are
countries that lead in producing seafood around the world where many
companies have been operating to produce mostly unsustainable products,
facing of series of worker’s rights violation, treatment their worker
unfair and putting workers in risk, suffered and danger condition.
Indonesia puts seafood sector as one of its main commodities to export.
Seafood contributes 8% of total GDP in 2016 and targeted the US as biggest
landing country, followed by the Japan, Europe, China. Based on Ministry of
Marine and Maritime Affairs (MMAF), Indonesia has produced 6.1 million tons
in 2016 and it has growing up to 6.9 million tons in two years after. The
valuation of shrimp commodity in 2015 was equivalent to USD 1.3 billion
furthermore it seems promising to increase in coming years after.
In current seafood value chain, power of retailers or supermarkets,
particularly in the northern countries have significantly increased.
Supermarkets have captured biggest benefit among the chain when at the same
time small-scale seafood producer, such as farmers and workers have been
declining their shared profit.[1]
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said above inequality must be ended. However, CSOs and labor organizations
are key actor to tackle of imbalance power to create better live of
small-scale food producer, especially women workers at the seafood
processing industry.
CSOs have been successfully in engaging to the retailers and now is aiming
to raise awareness of consumers to demand more sustainable seafood
consumption. The primary missing element of all seafood related influencing
strategies in Asia going in to 2018 had been the lack of significant
engagement of seafood trader/ supplier/ processor companies or big retail
chains which wield extensive influence over the seafood trader/ supplier/
processor companies to correct systemic injustices in their supply chains.
Involved CSOs have traditionally focused on community mobilization and
local government advocacy and are insufficiently able to influence the
large seafood trader/ supplier/ processor companies they encounter. CSOs
and labor organization should identify strategy and strengthen their
collaboration to enhance efforts to improve working condition as well as
protection of worker’s rights. Hence opportunity to influence company
together with government is a necessarily to be created.
In the long-term perspective a sustainable investment in the seafood sector
could not ignore social aspect, especially in the worker’s right element
that along with economic purpose. Building a social dialogue among
stakeholders in the seafood sector is very relevant to do as part of
strategy to tackle of worker’s issue to be deliberated to other
stakeholders. Oxfam is requiring consultant to facilitate series of
dialogue that involving various stakeholders.
Oxfam is using more dialogue based on solution approach for business to
promote our aim to improve worker’s rights. Referring to this strategy
Oxfam puts private sector as potential actor to collaborate as well as
CSOs. Government is also identified as key stakeholder to responsible in
ensuring worker’s rights protected.
As part of programmatic approach Oxfam in Indonesia has been working in
partnership with CSOs to support women worker, improving their rights,
working condition through engaging with companies. This is under the Right
to Food (RTF) Project that will be ended this year. By end of 2020, we are
aiming for at least two targeted companies to made policy commitments and
practices to fairly compensate women producers for the effort, their work,
passion, working condition, occupational and health safety, social policy
program, care and love they put into their processing system.
In the current intervention Oxfam together with partners have fruitful
outcomes while working with private sector. Companies have been more open
to dialogue and had willingness to work together to improve basic principle
to adopt worker’s rights and promoting more economic empowerment to
small-scale food producers.
In upcoming period Oxfam needs to accelerate achievements through intensify
influence, engagement and lobby based on influencing agenda to both
companies and government institutions. We need to observe shifting strategy
through partnership business model in the future and perhaps through
facilitation process of this consultancy Oxfam has identified allies to
work on similar vision in our seafood sector.
Along with that, we perhaps to raise more awareness about inclusive seafood
industry that respecting human rights as top of consideration in the
business processing model. Oxfam then requires a consultant—could be a
person or team—to conduct facilitation process and mapping out potential
ally from CSOs either private sector.
*OBJECTIVES*
This consultancy is needed to do some key objectives as explained below:
- Provide insight and analysis over current worker’s issue in Indonesia.
- Facilitation on social dialogue among CSOs, labour organisation,
private sector as well as government related to worker’s right,
particularly in seafood sector in Indonesia.
- Mapping, assess and recommend potential allies to strengthening works
on the seafood sector of Oxfam in Indonesia.
*OUTPUT*
- A brief analysis on the worker’s right issue in seafood sector.
- Conducting 2 times social dialogues involving key stakeholders.
- A report consists of mapping and recommendation potential allies for
strengthening seafood works in Indonesia.
Complete TOR can be downloaded in attached document here:
https://bit.ly/3degiPV
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injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right
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