Urgent Appeals: Data and Shared Learning

背景：今天典型的服装工人的工作条件很差。大多数生产位于全球南部，主要是亚洲部分地区，官方发展援助国家是生产地的突出特点。由于协会的权力很低，获得补救的机会有限，工人需要国际盟友才能听到他们的声音。清洁服装运动（CCC）已经为品牌的责任和游说政策制定者进行了大约30年的活动。它与人权维护者和其他民间社会行为者互动的核心机制之一是其紧急呼吁系统。通过普遍获得系统，工人及其组织可以联系CCC寻求支持。CCC处理的无人机案例包括大规模灾害，如2012年孟加拉国的塔兹雷恩火灾，造成100多名工人死亡，2012年巴基斯坦的阿里企业火灾，造成265人死亡，以及2013年拉纳广场大楼倒塌，造成1,000多名工人死亡，2,000多人受伤。除了健康和安全之外，普遍获得性意见还可能涉及工人的权利，如结社自由、工资盗窃或与人权捍卫者的恐吓和骚扰有关。每个普遍获得案例档案都是一个信息库，如果加以组织、编码、分析和充分利用，就可以为国际和地方一级的宣传和运动提供支持。2018年，卡迪夫大学的研究人员获得了IAA非政府组织数据基金的资助，目的是构建一个用户友好的UA数据集，该数据集可由CCC用于战略活动，确定在特定环境下有效的策略，并为有针对性的游说和宣传提供强有力的证据基础。该项目于2019年3月结束，实现了有限的目标，但强调需要进一步开展工作，以提高病例数据的准确性和一致性，并对UA病例历史中变量之间的关系进行更详细的分析。目的和目标：拟议项目的总体目标是最大限度地利用CCC持有但迄今尚未充分利用的普遍获得数据。这些数据具有作为决策、战略规划和在竞选和宣传中确定战术目标的证据基础的巨大潜力。目前申请的核心有两个关键目标：研究目标1：与CCC同事合作，进一步审查和评估UA IAA数据库，有三个目标：a）解决2019年3月向CCC强调的有关不完整或不准确数据的问题，从而提高其全面性和准确性; B）进行全面的需求分析，并根据部门趋势评估普遍获得服务数据库未来使用的功能能力;研究目标2：更详细地分析普遍获得数据库，并将其作为直接用于宣传和运动的战略工具嵌入CCC网络。例如，这种分析将涉及跟踪和绘制侵权行为图，确定成功的宣传战略，并根据国家特点和国家/体制差异探讨侵权行为之间的关系。潜在应用和益处：该项目将为协调理事会提供更容易获得的数据和证据基础，以便在国际一级开展运动和宣传，并作为需要在极端复杂的条件下获得信息的紧急呼吁协调员的业务工具。容易获得数据分析提供了确定有效策略的潜力，以协助在资源有限的条件下开展竞选活动。它还提供了在紧急呼吁有效期结束后分享学习的潜力，使官方发展援助国家的工人和民间社会利益攸关方受益。

Context: The working conditions for today's typical garment worker are poor. The majority of production is located in the global south, mainly in parts of Asia, and ODA countries feature prominently as locations for production. With low associational power and limited access to remedy, workers need international allies in order to get their voices heard. The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) has campaigned for the accountability of brands and lobbied policy makers for some 30 years. One of its core mechanisms for interacting with human rights defenders (HRDs) and other civil society actors is its Urgent Appeal (UA) system. Through the UA system workers and their organisations can contact CCC for support. Examples of UAs taken up by CCC include large scale disasters such as the Tazreen fire in Bangladesh in 2012, which killed over 100 workers, the Ali Enterprises Fire in Pakistan in 2012 where 265 people died, and the Rana Plaza building collapse in 2013 which killed over 1,000 workers and injured 2,000 more. In addition to health and safety, UAs may also relate to workers' rights such as freedom of association, wage theft or in relation to intimidation and harassment of HRDs. Each UA case file is a repository of information which, if organised, coded, analysed and fully utilised, could provide support for advocacy and campaigning at both international and local level. In 2018 researchers at Cardiff University were awarded funding under the IAA NGO data fund, with the aim of constructing a user-friendly dataset of UA data that could be used by CCC in strategising campaigns, identifying tactics that have worked in specific contexts and providing a strong evidential base for targeted lobbying and advocacy. The project concluded in March 2019 with its limited objectives met, but having highlighted the need for further work to improve the accuracy and consistency of the data across cases and undertake more detailed analysis of relationships between variables in UA case histories. Aims and objectives: The overarching aim of the proposed project is to maximise the use of UA data that CCC holds but has not hitherto fully utilised. Such data has significant potential as an evidential base for decision making, strategic planning and targeting of tactics in campaigning and advocacy.Two key objectives sit at the centre of the current application: Research Objective 1: To further review and evaluate the UA IAA database in collaboration with CCC colleagues, with three aims: a) to address issues highlighted to CCC in March 2019 around incomplete or inaccurate data, thereby improving its comprehensiveness and accuracy; b) to undertake a comprehensive needs analysis and assess the functional capacity of the UA database for future usage in the light of sectoral trends; c) to make recommendations for the maintenance and utilisation of the dataset within CCC.Research Objective 2: To analyse the UA database in greater detail and embed it in the CCC network as a strategic tool with direct application to advocacy and campaigning. Such analysis would involve, for example, the tracking and mapping of violations, identification of successful campaigning strategies and exploring relationships between violations according to country characteristics and national / institutional variations. Potential application and benefits: The project will provide CCC with more easily accessible data and an evidence base for campaigning and advocacy at the international level as well as acting as an operational tool for Urgent Appeals Coordinators (UACs) who need to access information in conditions of extreme complexity. Ease of access to data analysis provides potential for identification of effective tactics to assist campaigning in conditions of limited resource. It also offers potential for shared learning beyond the life of the Urgent Appeal, with benefits accruing to workers and civil society stakeholders in ODA countries.