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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:

Planning and programme design

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

Project managers and implementation teams, ILO backstopping units.

challenges:

Not applicable

success:

The project was able to continue to make progress towards its objectives, despite the pandemic restrictions on mobility, regime changes and unpredictable budget reductions progress by taking an agile project management approach, which involved team consultation to make rapid adjustments to workplans, and a developmental approach to planning, while retaining the overall logic of the project outcomes and outputs. The donor, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office was supportive of the approach.

context:

The ARC project faced multiple and significant external challenges, including the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic as the project was starting, political crises in Afghanistan and Myanmar, as well as significant cuts in the project funding due the donor financial constraints. Agile project management mechanisms were used which required the CTA and regional management team to have a clear overview of the project workplans and budgets of the participating country projects. The donor was supportive of the need to significantly change workplans, especially in the light of the budget cuts imposed in the context of COVID-19 and the structural changes brought about by the UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) Review in 2021.

description:

Agility in project management and planning is critical to intervention success in times of crisis. In a global environment that is increasingly unpredictable and crisis-affected, agile project management approaches as applied by the ARC Project management team are required, enabling rapid adjustments to workplans and budgets. This requires a developmental approach to planning, potentially necessitating deviation from a rigid results-based management approach.

administrative_issues:

Applies to skills of chief technical advisors, country office administration teams, management and reporting of interventions, budget deployment and reporting.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/1680609

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location:

country:

Asia and the Pacific - regional

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Asia Regional Child Labour Programme - Final evaluation