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Building a generation of safe and healthy workers: Safe & Healthy Youth - Midterm Evaluation
- eval_number:
- 2361
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2361
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Planning and programme design
- category:
- Organizational issues
- comments:
- The lessons should be considered by ILO officials in planning and managing country-level projects
- challenges:
- During the evaluation period, SY@W did not have full-time project staff in any of the participating countries. This has proved problematic. Maintaining a field presence in countries is essential to building and sustaining relationships with key stakeholders and addressing issues that arise during the course of a project in a timely manner.
SY@W, like other ILO technical cooperation projects, depends on external consultants to undertake the bulk of project activities. In this case, ensuring adequate technical backstopping has been difficult. In general, all technical cooperation projects rely on staff in relevant technical units in Geneva and/or on specialists based in regional offices for technical backstopping. Multiple people interviewed by the evaluation team noted that OSH specialists in ILO tend to have backgrounds in industrial hygiene or medicine and are spread thin. For example, the OSH specialist in Bangkok covers 23 countries, including five of the countries involved in SY@W – Indonesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines and Vietnam. The situation in the region was further exacerbated when the previous OSH specialist left in April 2016 to take a new post and the position remained unfilled for more than 11 months (March 2017).
- success:
- -
- context:
- The lesson is derived from a mid-term evaluation of the Safe Youth @ Work project. With funding provided by the US Department of Labor, the ILO launched a four-year, US$10.4 million project in December 2014 – Building a Generation of Safe and Healthy Workers (GLO/14/20/USA). On 24 November 2015, USDOL approved a modification to the cooperative agreement, bringing the total budget to roughly US$11.4 million. The project is currently operating in three “pilot” countries – Myanmar, Philippines, and Vietnam – and five “participating” countries— Cote d’Ivoire, Ecuador, Mongolia, Indonesia, Uruguay.
- description:
- Sufficient staffing and the provision of adequate oversight are critical.
- administrative_issues:
- The lack of adequate staffing and technical backstopping stems from various institutional issues as well as project planning and budgeting
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/199330
- location:
- country:
- Viet Nam
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- country:
- Myanmar
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- country:
- Ecuador
- region:
- Americas
- country:
- Côte d'Ivoire
- region:
- Africa
- country:
- Philippines
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- country:
- Uruguay
- region:
- Americas
- country:
- Inter-Regional
- region:
- Inter-Regional
- country:
- Mongolia
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- eval_title:
- Building a generation of safe and healthy workers: Safe & Healthy Youth - Midterm Evaluation
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