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Implementation of the national employment injury insurance scheme of Bangladesh - Final Independent Evaluation

eval_number:

2529

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2529

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Planning and programme design

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

ILO, GIZ, MoLE, NCCWE, BEF, BGMEA, BKMEA, IBC

challenges:

As mentioned above, relevant representation and adequate co-ordination from MoLE is apparent; the Ministry was mostly dependent on ILO for next steps. There was turn over at high level; such as the Secretary who was committed and was aware of the scheme was retired in the middle of the project. ILO project team tried to meet the new Secretary to brief her about the project. The team was not able to get appointment of the new Secretary in the final year of the project. In addition, there was lack of confidence between government and private sector in rolling out of the project.

success:

It appears that endogenously generated agreement tend to be sustained in the long run

context:

According to the design, this project was managed by ILO with support from region and head quarter. ILO worked closely with MoLE. The project expected that the MoLE would drive the project within the government. However, as MoLE has not facilitated the process as per design, it was not able to convince employers to initiate the pilot scheme in RMG. Additional Secretary (International Development) of MoLE is responsible for co-ordinating all projects under this Ministry. However, focal point for this project from MoLE was Additional Secretary (Administration) where co-ordination between this project and other related (including ILO) projects was inadequate.

description:

The Lesson Learned is that in spite of the commitment from the highest level of the government (the Prime Minister) to introduce EII, lack of scope of facilitation and leadership from the government has led to non-achievement of project outputs.

administrative_issues:

Financial support for process facilitation

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/221428

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location:

country:

Bangladesh

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Implementation of the national employment injury insurance scheme of Bangladesh - Final Independent Evaluation