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Enhance the resilience and self-reliance of crisis-affected rural communities (...) - Midterm evaluation
- eval_number:
- 2548
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2548
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Planning and programme design
- category:
- Organizational issues
- comments:
- Regional Office of Arab States / Project Team in Yemen
- challenges:
- The absence of an overall intervention strategy in Yemen has direct effect on several important factors including a) level of attention it gets from regional office and the ILO’s visibility on the ground and amidst donors and other UN agencies. More importantly, it also determines what role the ILO will play in Yemen’s recovery in the future.
- success:
- The dilemma faced by the ILO when working in crisis countries is well recognized by all people interviewed, both in terms of ILO staff and in terms of the ILO’s beneficiaries.
- context:
- The ILO has a long history of technical cooperation in Yemen that dates to the 1980’s. ILO had numerous large-scale technical cooperation projects in the field of Labour Market Information Systems, Child Labour, Gender Equality, Youth employment as well as an overarching Decent Work Country Programme. Most operations came to a halt following the uprisings in Yemen in 2011 and the ensuing war that continues to date. The Enhanced Rural Resilience in Yemen Joint programme is currently the only significant operational ILO project in Yemen.
- description:
- Interventions in Yemen would Benefit from Being Part of an Overall Intervention Strategy: The success of the ILO component within the ERRY programme cannot come without an analysis of the broader context in which it works in. The latter’s importance is pivotal to the evaluation of the ILO/ERRY component since it has direct implications on the way the project is run. The limitations of the ILO and the fact that it is not crisis oriented is fully recognized by its staff and its constituents. Yet, the consensus among both regional staff and stakeholders in Yemen is that more can be done by the ILO to enhance its overall presence in Yemen. Specialists interviewed reiterated the need to work under an overarching vision of what can and cannot be done in Yemen. This calls for an intervention strategy for Yemen that brings together all the expertise of specialists in Beirut, including worker’ and employers’ specialists, to determine the level of engagement in Yemen and its overall scope. This would also provide the opportunity to assess whether the current resources at hand (human, technical, financial) for the ILO component within ERRY are enough to have it run efficiently.
- administrative_issues:
- A Damage and Needs Assessment for Yemen recently conducted by the ILO states that “as soon as bombing stops, local employment plans should engage residents and displaced persons in infrastructure recovery activities (roads, schools, hospitals) through employment intensive investment programmes. Interviews with stakeholders also point to construction already happening in Sana’a. This could be a critical entry point for the ILO but must be consolidated as part of an overall vision (strategy) for Yemen.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/217450
- location:
- country:
- Yemen
- region:
- Arab States
- eval_title:
- Enhance the resilience and self-reliance of crisis-affected rural communities (...) - Midterm evaluation
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