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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

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comments:

Targeted users / Beneficiaries: Contributions made by beneficiaries are often underestimated. Staff time, office space and other contributions in kind usually do not appear in our reports.

challenges:

In our programme, even substantial contributions by donor organizations were not prooperly documented. This included the costs of deploying several (lent) long-term experts and part of the costs of fellowships.

success:

N/A

context:

The difficulty of measurement of costs increases as the number of stakeholders contributing to a project or program increases. For example, funding may come from multiple sources (different donors, different budgets). Moreover, many contributions are made by beneficiary stakeholders, notably by participating in activities.

description:

If we are keen on learning about the efficiency of our projects and programs, the first step is to correctly know about our cost. Efficiency relates to the relationship between inputs (activities) and outputs (results). Benefits sometimes are difficult to measure because not all of them can be expressed in monetary form, and some cannot be quantified. However, costs can always be expressed in monetary form, and we should always be able to fully account for them. Otherwise we lack the denominator of our fraction and cannot assess benefits in proportion.

administrative_issues:

Sometimes, it may not be practical to count all of the cost, in particular if this relates to expected stakeholder committments. Some stakeholders, for example,may be ready to commit, but cannot formally commit to exact cost figures before the project shows it can actually yield benefits or before the next budget is allocated by departments of finance. In these cases, it is important to at least specify expected committments, for example by specifying quantities (e.g. 36 months of international experts; 18 months of office space at locations X, Y, Z; leveling of ca. 150 ha of ground by members of the local population as in-kind contribution to ...)

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/206836

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location:

country:

Asia and the Pacific - regional

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

ILO/Korea Partnership Programme Towards the Realization of the Asian Decent Work Decade - Final Evaluation