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Partnerships for youth employment in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) - Midterm evaluation

eval_number:

2057

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2057

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Tripartism & constituent partnerships

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

- ILO management in charge of policy development projects design and implementation - ILO Youth Employment Programme managers - Project implementations teams - Governments and policy-makers

challenges:

N/A

success:

During the evaluation exercise it was observed that policy makers and representatives of the Public Employment Services stated independently the importance of evaluation of the state programs on youth employment as a way to measure results. This positive effect was a result of their participation in the preparatory capacity building seminar on youth employment policy in ILO Training Centre in Turin, Italy which included sessions on monitoring and evaluation. For example, in Azerbaijan the representatives of government suggested to evaluate the Active Labor Market Programmes piloted within a Project to assess their effectiveness and possibility to escalation to the state level. In Kazakhstan during the development of the National Action Plan on Youth Employment policy-makers made sure that all indicators were measurable and aligned with the current state programmes. These positives measure leads to conclusion that preparation of the stakeholders on evidence-based policy development and equipping them with knowledge on monitoring and evaluation leads to better commitment to develop evidence-based policies and measure results

context:

The project “Partnerships for Youth Employment in the Commonwealth of Independent States” was formulated in 2013 to address the Global Youth Crisis following the International Labour Conference in 2012 when representatives of governments, employer organizations and trade unions of 185 countries, including those from CIS countries, called for urgent and immediate action to reverse the youth employment crisis and the threat of losing a generation of young people. The 2012 ILC Resolution “The youth employment crisis: A Call for Action” was endorsed. The global economic crisis has exacerbated the difficult situation that already existed in youth labour markets of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The crisis resulted in a dramatic increase in the levels of unemployment among young people. The youth unemployment rate in the region jumped from 17.0 per cent in 2008 to 20.4 per cent in 2009 . The rate decreased between 2009 and 2011 but has not yet returned to pre-crisis levels, and is projected to be slightly over 18 per cent until 2018 . The response of policy-makers to these challenges did not always address the root causes of the problem and the public employment services had difficulties in reaching out to young people. Their capacity to develop evidence-based policies and programmes was hampered by the lack of effective monitoring and evaluation systems of youth employment action. Overall, both targeting and performance monitoring of Labour Market Policies (LMPs) was weak and rigorous impact evaluation was rarely conducted in CIS countries.

description:

Preparation of the stakeholders on evidence-based policy development and equipping them with knowledge on monitoring and evaluation leads to better commitment to develop evidence-based policies and measure results

administrative_issues:

Future projects’ design should incorporate an inception phase due resources (time, staff and funds) for the capacity building activities to equip the stakeholders / policy makers with knowledge on evidence-based policy development, monitoring and evaluation to promote the accountability and effectiveness of the youth labour policies.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/197572

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location:

country:

Europe and Central Asia - regional

region:

Europe and Central Asia

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eval_title:

Partnerships for youth employment in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) - Midterm evaluation