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CARIFORUM Civil Society in the Regional Development and Integration Process: Challenges to CARIFORUM Labour, Private Sector and Employers - Final evaluation

eval_number:

2383

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2383

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Training

category:

Employment

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comments:

Donor, ILO Directorate, project managers/coordinators, monitoring and evaluation officers, national project officers.

challenges:

The national bipartite meetings and workshops were generally appreciated by consulted NEOs and NTUs. Yet, in many countries, the different beneficiaries were uncertain about what would be the opportunities to replicate or to benefit from follow-up trainings to dig-deeper into the different aspects initially covered by the workshops. This was notably due to the fact the workshops were not done in partnership with national training organizations.

success:

The evaluation team noted that relying on the Jamaica Productivity Centre (JPC), the Barbados Productivity Council (BPC) and on the CCLCS to deliver certain workshops’ components had positive results in these two countries. Relying on the JPC and BPC in Jamaica and Barbados gave additional relevance to the workshops as they were more closely aligned to the national context and needs. Most importantly, the JPC and BPC are tripartite organizations and are thus long-term partners of NEOs and NTUs in each country. As such, involving them in the provision of workshops not only increases the capacities of the JPC and BPC as capacity building organizations, it contributes to social dialogue at national level and creates an opportunity for NEOs and NTU to reach back to these organizations to replicate such training in the future. A similar opportunity was created in Trinidad and Tobago by relying on the CCLCS as the CCL is now in close discussion with the college to identify future collaboration opportunities.

context:

The success of a capacity building intervention depends on its potential to create capacities, motivation and future opportunities to use or share created capacities among the targeted beneficiaries. The evaluation team noted that the ILO-EU project took into account the need to motivate the different employers and workers organizations to participate to the workshops and bipartite meetings it convened by providing a significant financial and logistical support. The workshops offer additional opportunities to beneficiaries to increase their knowledge on thematic that they considered relevant. The project however did not fully address the need to create opportunities for participants to replicate, dig-deeper or put into practice what they learnt.

description:

Using national resources to facilitate training can create a built-in mechanism for post-training follow-up, which in turn can create genuine capacity at the institutional level. The evaluation team noted that while local capacities were not generally used to implement capacity-building activities, the instances when it was observed (i.e. reliance on the Jamaica Productivity Centre, the Barbados Productivity Council and on the CCLCS to deliver certain workshops’ components) allowed centralization of disseminated knowledge within stable organizations that could be able to replicate or follow-up on services provided.

administrative_issues:

n/a

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/201802

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location:

country:

Americas - regional

region:

Americas

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eval_title:

CARIFORUM Civil Society in the Regional Development and Integration Process: Challenges to CARIFORUM Labour, Private Sector and Employers - Final evaluation