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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

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comments:

Regional Office of Arab States / Project Team in Yemen

challenges:

Output 2 of the ERRY programme has “increased capacity of local actors and strengthened partnership of private sector to enhance economic recovery”. The reality is that local authorities, including the government, employers’ and workers’ organizations have been substantially weakened and do not have the minimum capacities required to deliver services.

success:

Clear efforts are being made to engage national partners. Those interviewed had a very clear understanding of the ERRY programme, but also in the specifics of the ILO component - more so at central level than in the governorates. Efforts to engage national partners are bearing their fruit. In the words of the COCI “The project works in coordination with us more than any other project” . Such coordination mechanisms are good practices, particularly in a programme like ERRY where most activities are implemented through implementing partners and where coordination with the local authorities has been deemed as one area in need of strengthening in the ERRY MTR.

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 and 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:

Capitalize on ILO’s History in Yemen and Partnerships Nourished Over the Years: Under Output 2, the mid-term evaluation of the ERRY programme recognizes the need to build the capacity of local institutions (to which provisions are already being made by the JPU/UNDP including an injection of cash in relevant institution) and to strengthen communication. In this respect the ILO project team is already making clear progress with local authorities at central level. One of the activities designed for this project, the “Upgrading of Informal Apprenticeship Scheme” directly involves the tripartite partners and the MOTEVT at both design and implementation level. The activity can benefit to build on already existent dialogue with the tripartite partners involved and expand such coordination at governorate level to enhance sustainability. Among the UN agencies involved in the implementation of the ERRY programme, the ILO enjoys a unique mandate of tripartism that even in times of crisis, if not more so, would benefit from being invested in. Already cooperation at central level with local authorities such as the COCI and the MOTEVT might be providing a good platform for dialogue with labour issues as an entry point.

administrative_issues:

N/A

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/217455

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location:

country:

Yemen

region:

Arab States

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eval_title:

Enhance the resilience and self-reliance of crisis-affected rural communities (...) - Midterm evaluation