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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:

Global supply/value chains

category:

Enterprises

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comments:

Project staff; donors

challenges:

While encouraging policy reforms in a fragile context is not an easy task, local stakeholders’ desire to be more involved is a promising factor. The ILO’s broad expertise on a variety of topics such as social dialogue and green job creation should also be further harnessed to create synergies within the organisation and ensure integration across the project’s different levels of work.

success:

While encouraging policy reforms in a fragile context is not an easy task, local stakeholders’ desire to be more involved is a promising factor. The ILO’s broad expertise on a variety of topics such as social dialogue and green job creation should also be further harnessed to create synergies within the organisation and ensure integration across the project’s different levels of work.

context:

Given the interlinkages between the economic, social and environmental dimensions, the integrated approach should focus on structuring interventions that have a triple impact.

description:

Lesson 8: So far, R2J’s interventions in agricultural value chains sought to create more and better work opportunities for the poor but omitted examining how such interventions could build a buffer against climate change or, conversely, aggravate environmental impacts. Studies have shown that the effects of climate change hit vulnerable communities living in already fragile environments the hardest. Not only does climate change destroy the livelihoods of vulnerable groups, putting them at risk of poverty, but it can also exacerbate underlying tensions, with competition around reduced natural resources, and increase the likelihood of conflict to arise. Largely reliant on agriculture, Afghanistan’s northern provinces have started witnessing the consequences of extreme weather conditions on their main source of income and food supply. Action 8: R2J could adopt a more integrated approach at all project levels that mirrors both the environmental dimension and the advocacy dimension. Future project planning could involve other departments at the ILO specialised in the transition towards a green economy, such as the ILO’s Green Jobs programme. In addition to a more comprehensive programmatic design, integration is also necessary upstream, at the policy level, to advance the ILO’s decent work objectives. An advocacy strategy could be more thoroughly planned, addressing the challenges workers continue to face in the region.

administrative_issues:

Design and implementation

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/199203

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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