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Cluster evaluation “Improved and market-based provision of vocational training for Lebanese and refugees” and “Towards improved formal and non-formal technical and vocational education and training...

eval_number:

2693

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2693

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Planning and programme design

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

• Governmental staff from the MOL, MEHE, MOA and MOSA. • Other semi-governmental staff from the NEO. • Other partners, such as UNICEF, Italian Cooperation, FAO, UNDP, UNHCR, and UNRWA. • Italian and UNICEF NGOs beneficiaries. • Employers from the private sector. • Other participant TVET centres, including the governmental, private sector and NGOs, in addition to national TVET staff.

challenges:

Implementation of the project required more time than was initially planned. In particular, conducting the sectoral studies was a lengthy process and other preparation steps took additional time.

success:

Despite certain delays, the sequence of planned activities were well designed in the sense that concepts and principles were realized and challenges were explored before moving on to more complex aspects of the programme.

context:

The time needed to conduct the labour market assessment, in addition to the significant changes to the TVET system in Lebanon are considered as some of the contextual issues to be addressed properly.

description:

• Since the two projects are adopting new methodologies as a pilot intervention to link local market assessments and skills with TVET (as per the development of the NSF), it should not be too ambitious to attain all the set objectives through the projects’ interventions and activities. The projects are tackling and addressing some critical social, institutional and policy changes challenges that require collaborative efforts by the various actors in the community, guided by a clear advocacy strategy within a time frame of least three years, as reported by the majority of stakeholders interviewed. This should be supported in future similar interventions/projects by including some buy-in activities, either at the beginning of the project or by integrating the project design as part of the project cycle to sensitize the community groups, particularly Lebanese youth and their parents, about TVET. This would help change their perceptions as well as organize different advocacy efforts on different levels. This should be promoted in the remaining period of the ILO–UNICEF project or other similar projects in the future considering the ambitious nature of the two projects and the limited time frame of the ILO-Italian Cooperation project.

administrative_issues:

The evaluation found that relying on the internal human resources of ILO to facilitate some training workshops was a good approach in terms of both of time efficiency and ensuring that the training objectives were realized properly in a timely manner.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/211665

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location:

country:

Lebanon

region:

Arab States

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eval_title:

Cluster evaluation “Improved and market-based provision of vocational training for Lebanese and refugees” and “Towards improved formal and non-formal technical and vocational education and training...