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FAIRWAY Program - Final evaluation

eval_number:

3440

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3440

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Monitoring and evaluation

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

Development actors, including the ILO and the UN agencies

challenges:

Overall, the M&E mechanism developed and put in operation by the FAIRWAY programme measured to a high extent and in a timely manner Programme progress at the level of outcomes and outputs. The inconsistencies were observed on reporting data in a sex-disaggregated manner. This could be corrected through a robust training of implementing partners on gender equality and importance of reporting data in a sex-disaggregated manner and how it could be further used and applied in tailoring their services strategies.

success:

The M&E consultant of high qualification was procured by the FAIRWAY programme who developed a Programme Monitoring Plan aimed to measure progress at the level of outcomes and outputs against the developed indicators. The data was collected on a quarterly basis and the M&E consultant assisted the Programme team to assess the progress and highlight the outcomes and outputs with poor performance against the targets set. This allowed the FAIRWAY team to focus on managing for results adjusting the programme’s strategy and implementation modalities. The evidences to support the reporting on indicators were collected on the shared workspace. This method has been extremely instrumental to support the mid-term and final evaluations. The FAIRWAY programme developed M&E tools such as post-training surveys to measure the improved change of behavior due to training. This evaluation found that the tools were utilized to a good extent. The post-training assessment was conducted in Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain and Nigeria. The interviews with the ILO staff at the country level showed that they found the monitoring mechanism and reporting modalities effective to allow tracking progress in a timely manner.

context:

The FAIRWAY Program is a four-year inter-regional development cooperation project funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and implemented by the International Labour Organization (ILO) from December 2019 to March 2024. The programme aims to improve conditions of labour migration across migration pathways from Africa to Arab States and better protect all migrant workers in vulnerable situations within the Arab states region, thereby enabling migrant workers to contribute more fully to sustainable development in both countries of origin and destination. The budget of the Programme is USD 10,972,250 including an additional USD 1,500,000 in 2020 to support the COVID-19 response in African countries of origin.

description:

The support of M&E consultant of high qualification was important to ensure coherent monitoring and reporting on programme results across country, regional and inter-regional levels

administrative_issues:

To the Programme Department of the ILO, programme staff at regional and country level: 1. Complex programmes implemented at global, inter-regional or sub-regional level should avail from the expertise of M&E consultant or M&E staff of high qualification 2. Project Monitoring Plans should be updated on quarterly basis 3. M&E Tools should be developed to measure quality indicators in addition to the quantity ones 4. Collection of the data in a sex-disaggregated manner should be consistent and used to adjust implementation strategy towards gender equality

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/1859911

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location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

FAIRWAY Program - Final evaluation