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Road to Jobs: Bringing decent work to rural households of the Northern Provinces in Afghanistan - Final Evaluation

eval_number:

2360

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2360

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Monitoring and evaluation

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

Project staff; partner companies; end-beneficiaries

challenges:

R2J used robust MRM tools to gather business partners’ feedback on ongoing interventions: intervention guide, progress meeting, results chain… These feedback mechanisms usually took the form of informal discussions, which the project could further document. The project tends to use quantitative indicators for data collection and could further diversify its evidence gathering tools.

success:

R2J used robust MRM tools to gather business partners’ feedback on ongoing interventions: intervention guide, progress meeting, results chain… These feedback mechanisms usually took the form of informal discussions, which the project could further document. The project tends to use quantitative indicators for data collection and could further diversify its evidence gathering tools.

context:

Building trust among local communities and promoting local ownership.

description:

While the project’s monitoring and results measurement system is sufficiently robust, thanks to systematic data collection and a solid attribution strategy, it is not completely aligned with the project’s ethos and community-based approach. In the shift from beneficiaries to partners, businesses could also be involved to a greater extent in the monitoring process. So far, they can voice their concerns during regular progress meetings, but have not been able to engage and react to the results identified through monitoring activities. Action 2: Participatory monitoring tools could be further explored. Data collected and findings can be directly shared with relevant stakeholders and serve as a basis for discussing ways to adjust interventions to stakeholders’ needs. This suggests a more extensive use of qualitative tools, such as focus group discussions, that foster dialogue among key actors. It may also imply resorting to more informal types of evidence collected through community-based techniques such as self-evaluation tools or testimonials. Moreover, inclusion indicators could be used to measure how the project impacts the social integration of end-beneficiaries in their communities.

administrative_issues:

Desing and implementation

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/199188

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location:

country:

Afghanistan

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Road to Jobs: Bringing decent work to rural households of the Northern Provinces in Afghanistan - Final Evaluation