Results from a before-and-after learning assessment of pre-migration departure training for prospective female migrants in Odisha, India

Pocock, NS and Kiss, L. 2020. Results from a before-and-after learning assessment of pre-migration departure training for prospective female migrants in Odisha, India. [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001789.

Pocock, NS and Kiss, L. Results from a before-and-after learning assessment of pre-migration departure training for prospective female migrants in Odisha, India [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2020. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001789.

Pocock, NS and Kiss, L (2020). Results from a before-and-after learning assessment of pre-migration departure training for prospective female migrants in Odisha, India. [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001789.

Description

Work in Freedom (WiF) was a large multi-component intervention managed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and funded by the Department for International Development (DFID), to prevent labour trafficking. WiF was implemented in India, Nepal and Bangladesh as source countries, and Lebanon and Jordan as destination countries, from 2013 to 2018. WiF’s community-based activities aimed to prevent labour trafficking by enhancing women’s autonomy, fostering adoption of ‘safe migration’ practices and assertion of migrant workers’ rights. The India component of WiF focussed on prospective in-country migrants only. A two-day pre-migration training event was organised for women who expressed an interest in migrating for work during WIF direct outreach sessions. The purpose of the sessions was to help women to make informed decisions about whether, and how, to migrate for work. They included modules on self-care, financial literacy, use of technology to ensure wellbeing, and safety in transit and at destination. Sessions were organised at the Gram Panchayat (village assembly) level and held once approximately 30 women had signed up per session (multiple sessions were held with different groups of approximately 30 women). The training was implemented by the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) and AAINA, local NGOs with experience in gender, and labour mobilisation and organisation among women. This dataset contains data provided by 347 women who participated in pre-migration training and completed pre-training and post-training interviews. Dataset variables are listed in the accompanying questionnaire.

Methods

Description of data capture

NP cleaned and analysed data collected as part of the WiF evaluation by former LSHTM staff.

Data capture method

Questionnaire: Fixed form - Paper

Data Collection Period

From	To
1 January 2016	31 March 2016

Date (Date submitted to LSHTM repository)

22 June 2020

Geographical area covered (offline during plugin upgrade)

North Latitude	East Longitude	South Latitude	West Longitude
21.4972	85.7434	18.3474	82.9309

Language(s) of written materials

English

People & Groups

Data Creators	Pocock, NS and Kiss, L
Associated roles	Watson, S (Project Member), Kiss, L (Principal Investigator) and Zimmerman, C (Principal Investigator)
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Public Health and Policy > Dept of Global Health and Development
Research Centre	Gender Violence and Health Centre
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi, India, Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), Ahmedabad, India, AAINA, Orissa, India