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Strengthening Institutional Mechanisms for Migration Management in the Southern Africa Region - Midterm joint evaluation

eval_number:

1085668

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/1085668

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Programme implementation

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

EU, PUNOs, RECs and Member States

challenges:

The main challenge underpinning the SAMM project implementation was the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic which derailed the project commencement timeframes in some countries and activity implementation in all the 16 countries. The project also involved negotiating with the regional bodies and governments on issues of implementation activities, timelines and approaches, given that the various Members States were at different stages in migration policy development and had different migration related challenges. There was therefore a need for the project to navigate the individual country specific systems so as to carefully identify the key labour and mixed migration issues that could speak to each country’s priority needs. Taking cognizance of the negative impacts of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions on project implementation, there was need to realign the project implementation timeframes with the objective to create adequate time for logical and effective project completion.

success:

The PUNOs ability to negotiate and individual relationships with the individual countries was an important success factor towards the application of this lesson. Also availability of common regional frameworks on labour migration and mixed migration of which the Member States committed to was another major supporting factor.

context:

The SAMM project is a multi- country, regional project and involving multiple aspect of migration that include labour and mixed migration, including trafficking in persons, smuggling of migrants, refuges, unaccompanied children, stateless people and internal displacements. SADC member countries are at different levels in addressing policy issues related to labour migration and mixed migration, hence the need for considerable time and resources to bring all the countries on an equal footing in terms of ratifying and domesticating the various international and regional labour and mixed migration instruments. For the SAMM project, despite the efforts made to compensate for the delays experienced in the project implementation by the COVID-19 lockdown measures, a more systematic approach to project completion was necessary and this called for an extension of the project timeframe.

description:

A complex multi-region, multi-country, and multi-stakeholders project such as SAMM, requires a wider implementation timeframe and project life cycle to ensure full engagement and buy-in of all relevant stakeholders and multiple constituencies, bearing in mind that the expected outcomes can only be achieved through negotiable and consultative processes.

administrative_issues:

N/A

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/1157265

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location:

country:

South Africa

region:

Africa

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country:

Southern Africa

region:

Africa

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eval_title:

Strengthening Institutional Mechanisms for Migration Management in the Southern Africa Region - Midterm joint evaluation