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ILO/Korea Partnership Programme Towards the Realization of the Asian Decent Work Decade - Final Evaluation
- eval_number:
- 2285
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2285
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Resource management
- category:
- Organizational issues
- comments:
- N/A
- challenges:
- Average donor resources available per country amounted to USD 50,000 per year. At the same time, the management intensity became very high because the programme essentially needed to operate like a funding scheme for small projects which we needed to design individually and tailor to the local circumstances.
- success:
- N/A
- context:
- Our programme was the first of its kind with a new, emerging donor country. Therefore, some of the limitations in our approach may be rated as "teething problems". When working with new donors, it will therefore be important that we all pay more attention to familiarizing everyone with the international discussions on aid effectiveness.
- description:
- Avoid scattering resources even when your ambition is to achieve impact in a larger region. The odds are that impact will be minimal and your efforts may even go unnoticed. Furthermore, the likelihood that your impact will be sustainable is comparably low. This is a lesson learned from trying to assist many Asian countries achieving the goals of the Asian Decent Work Decade where we involved some 20 countries with a donor budget that amounted to ca. USD 5 million.
- administrative_issues:
- We could have possibly prevented some of the scattering by engaging in deeper technical discussions with our donor prior to implementation. Our implementation experience in TC projects should have allowed us to anticipate the shortcomings, and advise our new donors on such issues in the early stages (as long as the donor is open to suggestions).
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/206826
- location:
- country:
- Asia and the Pacific - regional
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- eval_title:
- ILO/Korea Partnership Programme Towards the Realization of the Asian Decent Work Decade - Final Evaluation
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