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Way out of informality: Facilitating formalization of informal economy in South Asia - Final Evaluation
- eval_number:
- 1895
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/1895
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Resource management
- category:
- Organizational issues
- comments:
- ILO DWT, ILO CO (Dhaka, Kathmandu and New Delhi) and the other ILO offices in sub-region, region, and headquarters; Ministry of Labour and Employment; local governments; trade unions; and the workers in the informal economy.
- challenges:
- Limited implementation capacity against intensive efforts required to remain engaged with concerned stakeholder groups and difficulties in identification of project implementation partners committed to advance formalization agenda.
The short contractual arrangement implied less ownership in partner agencies for providing continuity to the planned activities and lack of internal resource mobilization mechanism along with approval process for work programme and budget on annual basis as well as for each activity meant that the transaction costs was high in addition to delays in the implementation of some of the planned activities.
- success:
- Sound understanding of partners’ capabilities to address stakeholder needs.
- context:
- No prior serious effort to address employment in the informal economy; inadequate literature on pragmatic ways to tackle formalization process, and uncertainty associated with annual budgetary allocations.
- description:
- Implementing partners prefer predictable funding so that they can adequately demonstrate the linkage between activities and output leading to project outcomes. The project offered several short (sometimes too short) contracts which did not adequately create project ownership on the part of the contractors and their responsibility was limited to the output delivery. It was less clear how those outputs were to be used for generating intended project outcomes. Some of the agencies had four contracts over two to three year period. Interruptions and uncertainty in contracts was not helpful.
- administrative_issues:
- Complexities in implementation arrangements with multiple stakeholders and an additional layer of project work programme and financial management at the by the ILO Regional Office in Bangkok level.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/194786
- location:
- country:
- Asia and the Pacific - regional
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- eval_title:
- Way out of informality: Facilitating formalization of informal economy in South Asia - Final Evaluation
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