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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:
- Tourism
- category:
- Sector
- comments:
- Tourism based service providers, Local beneficiaries including women
- challenges:
- Seasonal nature of tourism and prone to external shocks and social stigma against womens involvement in tourism value chain.
- success:
- Interest and willingness of private sector actors in institutionalizing and strengthening sustainable tourism in rural communities, and still a reasonable agricultural base dependent on food security and livelihoods.
- context:
- Largely farming community with very little knowledge about tourism.
- description:
- Coastal and natural reserve based tourism tend to be seasonal. The operators need income diversification options from other sources. Tourism tends to be seasonal in nature and extending over a period of 5-6 months, and in Sri Lanka, it has its peaks and troughs around major holidays and religious events. Seasonal income often is not adequate for sustaining over the entire year unless a second income opportunity is closely linked to tourism income. There are also potential risks associated with a single income source because tourism is vulnerable to external shocks outside the control of the project.
- administrative_issues:
- Low implementation capacity
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/210336
- location:
- country:
- Sri Lanka
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- eval_title:
- Local Empowerment through Economic Development (LEED) - Final Evaluation
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