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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:

Results-based management

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

Different stakeholders, depending on their roles, may need different indicators to measure progress. Yet, not everything measurable needs to be reported. Indicator specification needs to be pragmatic and should always consider cost of monitoring the indicators.

challenges:

While utlimately, project management is responsible for monitoring and evaluation, all stakeholders share an interest in monitoring progress and need to make their contributions. Properly anticipating the respective needs goes a long way in avoiding shortcomings at a later stage.

success:

N/A

context:

The more facets a project or program has or the more complex its work streams are, the more indicators are required for monitoring and evaluation purposes. Therefore, it is important to take early decisions relating to indicator specification. Also, the costs of monitoring and evaluation need to be estimated in advance.

description:

Unless result indicators are properly specified according to quality, quantity, time, and location, it is not possibly to measure whether objectives and results leading to the achievement of objectives have been reached. Some projects and programs appear to stop short of this specification. While appropriate indicators have been identified, the last step in making them operational has remained unfinished. This possibly points to insufficient attention or insufficient allocation of resources to indicator specification or monitoring and evaluation more generally.

administrative_issues:

ILO, as a specialized agency, needs to ensure that all indicators are properly specified following their selection and agreement with stakeholders, ideally during the design stage. It is not unusual for specification to be left to early implementation, however, because, for example, a baseline may not yet have been available during the design stage or there was insufficient time to finalize indicator discussions. In these cases, indicator specification is one of the priority tasks of early implementation.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/206841

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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