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Decent employment for youth project in Egypt - Final Evaluation
- eval_number:
- 1650
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/1650
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Monitoring and evaluation
- category:
- Organizational issues
- comments:
- This learning point is for ILO staff developing and designing technical assistance projects in cooperation with stakeholders.
- challenges:
- For a number of reasons related to project environments in international organisations, baseline studies very seldom exists at the beginning of a project – they are at best carried out within half a year, or a year after implementation has started. This makes baseline figures not very reliable as they should be used stating a “0-point”, or “without any project interference point”. In these situations, it´s very important that ILO and the donors realise that M&E experts must be involved at the very beginning for the purpose of doing what can be done, namely, help managers to keep track and report on progress as best as can be done.
- success:
- Having dedicated M&E staff in projects from the start – would likely result in better performed projects and more successful projects.
- context:
- A M&E function also helps managers make decisions on what data should be collected as a continuous activity - vis-à-vis the targets and outcomes in the operational plans. As indicators of achievement are to be used to measure progress during the lifetime of the project, these need to be formulated/designed from the very start. The same goes for baseline figures which are benchmarks against which the indicators of achievements should be used.
- description:
- In the case of DJEP, a M&E staff member was added after 2015, after the Mid Term Evaluation, which was very useful. The lesson is however, that this should have been the staff set up from the beginning. ILO Projects need to have dedicated M&E staff to work on Project Monitoring Framework, Logical Framework Analysis and Theory of Change in projects from the start, to help project managers follow up and report on progress.
- administrative_issues:
- As this is a design issue, ILO technical units/departments and development partners, including national partners, should consider this issue when designing new technical assistance projects/programmes.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/186879
- location:
- country:
- Egypt
- region:
- Africa
- eval_title:
- Decent employment for youth project in Egypt - Final Evaluation
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