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Improvements of livelihoods of vulnerable households in urban and peri-urban areas of Galkayo - Final evaluation
- eval_number:
- 2489
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2489
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Tripartism & constituent partnerships
- category:
- Organizational issues
- comments:
- Local business owners, and local administration
- challenges:
- Business people were initially vehemently opposed to their registration by the local authorities which the assumption that authorities intended to levy high taxes on them. The process was temporarily stopped until the business people were sensitized.
- success:
- Following the sensitization, the local authorities were able to register businesses in their jurisdictions. This increased the number of taxpaying businesses and the register formed the basis for implementation of the AIMS and BIMS.
- context:
- The project sought to support improvement in revenue collection for the local authorities. This needed to be preceded by registration of businesses, something that had not been done before. As expected, the registration process faced opposition from local business people. The local people were then countered by the project implementers and officers from the local authority on the objectives of the registration after which a majority of them agreed to be registered
- description:
- Active involvement of stakeholders is key to the success of project interventions: Ordinarily, project stakeholders and beneficiaries can be active of passive recipients of development interventions. As such this project could have easily worked with the local authority as the main stakeholder. But in addition local beneficiaries were actively involved through community sensitisation forums and consultations. A case in point was during the registration of businesses in south and north which initially faced opposition but was later successful after business people were met and the objectives of the exercise clearly explained to them.
- administrative_issues:
- Project designs ought to incorporate stakeholders as active participants in the projects in all stages.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/214029
- location:
- country:
- Somalia
- region:
- Africa
- eval_title:
- Improvements of livelihoods of vulnerable households in urban and peri-urban areas of Galkayo - Final evaluation
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