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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:
- Labour standards
- category:
- International Labour Standards
- comments:
- Local communities, Local administrations
- challenges:
- The main challenge was that only able people were able to earn from the labour intensive jobs. Further these jobs were also short term and could only earn the workers money for a while.
- success:
- This approach provided earnings that were used in meeting the needs of the household. Further the people employed were able to gain skills which they used to access job opportunities from other potential employers.
- context:
- Notably, the project sought to use labour intensive methods in the development and rehabilitation of roads, and markets. These methods result to massive employment of semi skilled and non skilled people in opportunities albeit short term. It was observed that Galkayo faced high unemployment rates owing to the influx of IDPS to the town in search of better livelihood opportunities.
- description:
- Labour intensive methods are effective ways of injecting cash to the community and building peoplesÂ’ capacity. Also documented as an emerging good practice, the use of labour intensive approaches in development of infrastructure worked well to inject cash in the pockets of ordinary people while building their capacity. This was a quick way of ensuring that ordinary households had some disposable income in the absence of direct grants. This income was used to meet the basic household needs and extra amounts were saved invested.
- administrative_issues:
- Lessons learnt from this practice could effectively inform interventions in other related or similar projects .
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/214034
- 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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