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Asia Regional Child Labour Programme - Final evaluation
- eval_number:
- 3119
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3119
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Programme implementation
- category:
- Organizational issues
- comments:
- FUNDAMENTALS, DWT in Delhi and ROAP, development cooperation partners
- challenges:
- Initial indications of commitment by national stakeholders to the project approach during project formulation did not universally translate into continued commitment under implementation. In India, little progress was made toward updating national child labour data, as the government commitment to doing so changed, due to apparent sensitivity about child labour data and the change in priorities with the onset of COVID-19.
- success:
- Constituent stakeholders in Bangladesh and Nepal informed the evaluation team that the project interventions fully met their needs, for example regarding technical support for child labour data collection methodologies in Bangladesh and support to establishing the Alliance 8.7 infrastructure in Nepal.
- context:
- In Bangladesh and Nepal, the national governments were committed to advancing within the project’s fields of action, with related national budget allocations to the respective national action plans on child labour. This was also the case in Pakistan where province level child labour surveys were already in motion prior to the ARC project.
- description:
- Responding to host government needs and interests facilitates impact. In Nepal and Bangladesh, for example, the ARC project was able to serve the requests of the host government, generating political will and ownership, and progressed smoothly toward the project’s knowledge base, policy development and local intervention outcomes. For example, the project made rapid progress in Bangladesh where the government requested ILO support for the National Child Labour Survey, updating the hazardous work list for children and for the process of ratification of ILO Convention 138.
- administrative_issues:
- Importance of an official inception phase to confirm host government interests and priorities.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/1680604
- location:
- country:
- Asia and the Pacific - regional
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- eval_title:
- Asia Regional Child Labour Programme - Final evaluation
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