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EU-MPTF Spotlight Initiative ILO-UNW JP "Safe and Fair: Realizing women migrant workers' right and opportunities in the ASEAN region" - Final evaluation
- eval_number:
- 2829
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2829
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Programme implementation
- category:
- Organizational issues
- comments:
- Future UN joint programmes
- challenges:
- The SAF Programme made the decision to use only one NPC in some programming countries to represent both UN agencies with the aim of achieving greater value for money. However, the result was that the NPCs were reportedly overworked and struggled to facilitate the sharing of partners across agencies when only one NPC represented both UN agencies. It was also challenging to find qualified country-level staff to fill the complex role of the NPC.
- success:
- Other country-level staff from the joint agencies as well as regional level SAF programming staff stepped in on many occasions to provide additional capacity support for NPCs, especially those who were required to represent both UN agencies.
- context:
- UN agencies are under significant pressure by donors to limit programme staffing costs even when these costs are necessary to implement a successful programme.
- description:
- To ensure a reasonable workload and to facilitate the sharing of partners, a joint programme the size and magnitude of the SAF Programme requires national staff members from both UN agencies to implement programming in each programming country. The SAF Programme demonstrated that the workload was overly demanding when there was only one NPC in a programming country representing both UN agencies. In particular, it was difficult for the NPC to learn the operating requirements of the other UN agency and to engage with partners from across both agencies. Having only one NPC to represent both UN agencies also made it more difficult for partners to understand how each agency was involved in the programme, thus limiting the potential to share partners and expand each agency’s partnership base through the joint programme.
- administrative_issues:
- It is a significant financial investment to hire full-time staff from both UN agencies to implement joint programming in each programming country. However, the evaluation suggests that this is necessary for an initiative the size of the SAF Programme.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/1680828
- location:
- country:
- Inter-Regional
- region:
- Inter-Regional
- eval_title:
- EU-MPTF Spotlight Initiative ILO-UNW JP "Safe and Fair: Realizing women migrant workers' right and opportunities in the ASEAN region" - Final evaluation
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