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Local Empowerment through Economic Development (LEED) - Final Evaluation
- eval_number:
- 2210
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2210
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Programme implementation
- category:
- Organizational issues
- comments:
- Local beneficiaries including women, tour operators, DFAT Australia, ILO CO Skills team
- challenges:
- Social backlash in womens participation in tourism related activities, delays in putting together private sector tour operator groups leading to the inauguration of building for Community Based Tourism Association in Panama on the last day of the project.
- success:
- Willingness to absorb risk, cooperation from a local travel agency, interest from local tour operators
- context:
- Conflict-affected population seeking economic development opportunities.
- description:
- When funding and implementation timeframe is limited, it is better to concentrate on fewer activities in the relatively smaller area rather than spreading resources over a larger number of interventions. The LED project objective was over ambitious for the approved duration of 18 months in the context of developing non-traditional economic development initiatives such as sustainable eco-tourism, which required intensive social preparation. The project activities appeared exploratory and spread over two districts. The project would have achieved a better outcome if it planned a smaller area and fewer activities.
- administrative_issues:
- The Early departure of the National Project Manager which caused vacuum for a while before assigning management responsibility to LEED National Project Coordinator and reassignment of one of the LEED staff to Ampara for LED project coordination.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/210311
- location:
- country:
- Sri Lanka
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- eval_title:
- Local Empowerment through Economic Development (LEED) - Final Evaluation
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