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BASIC Project: Gender equality in the world of work in Angola, Brazil, China, India and South Africa - Final Evaluation

eval_number:

1142

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/1142

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Programme implementation

category:

Organizational issues

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description:

While one lesson from the BASIC Project, reflected in the recommendations, is that structuring a project around a very tight time schedule creates practical difficulties for project development and implementation, the creative ways in which the BASIC project has dealt with this challenge generates a positive lesson. This lesson is that, partly in response to this timing issue, the BASIC Project built its work largely on existing activities in the countries in which it was practical to do so (i.e. those with established ILO work on gender equality). This is in contrast of the tendency for many donor funded development initiatives to attempt to start 'from scratch' in order to carve out a unique intervention which can be attributed solely to a specific funding vehicle. In contrast the BASIC project fed into well established activities, relationships and structured in project countries. This made an important contribution in terms of ensuring that ILO activities on gender equality funded through previous were sustained. It also had the advantage of building on past work to make sure that activities carried out through BASIC were relevant, and meant that they could be rapidly implemented by drawing on preparatory work which had already been undertaken. Finally, linking BASIC into established activities is likely to support the on-going sustainability of BASIC interventions by making them part of a bigger set of processes with on-going support and involvement from ILO constituents. It is worth noting that, although this lesson stems (in part) from responses to the tight schedule, they could nonetheless also apply to projects which do not face the kind of schedule that the BASIC Project did.

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url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/176401

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location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

BASIC Project: Gender equality in the world of work in Angola, Brazil, China, India and South Africa - Final Evaluation