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Decent work for sustainable and inclusive economic transformation in Mozambique - Midterm Evaluation

eval_number:

2646

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2646

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Planning and programme design

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

Project implementers/ Beneficiaries of the interventions

challenges:

A flexible approach of a project design combined with a strict implementation approach leads to a delays, frustration of all people involved (in this case, PMU, DWT and MITESS).

success:

The inception phase has been used to consolidate the relations with the main stakeholder of the project, Ministry of Labour, and to explain the scope of the project.

context:

A open and good communication among the implementer team, the backstopping team, the responsible office, in this case Lusaka, and the donor, would allow a better knowledge of the limits of the project flexibility and to understand the theory of change underpinning the project.

description:

One of the main factors that influences a project implementation is its design. Project formulation is key to further development of the overall framework, as it underscores the action points of the implementing agent/s. A project must be realistic, coherent, adapted to the needs that it intends to address and to the socio-political and economic context. Outputs and outcomes must have SMART indicators and enough resources to achieve them. The project was designed with a realists and coherent perspective, except for the MDS component, but it was also quite flexible and open in its design to adapt during the inception phase the project reality and capacities to the final objective. Including an Inception phase is a very good opportunity to reshape projects. However, this flexibility and openness could be miss regarded or misunderstood, if the causal relations among outputs and outcomes is not clear, therefore its modification could not be clear either. In this case, the PMU was entirely comfortable or aware with the flexible spirit behind the project formulation and did not take the inception phase to do major changes, besides the abandon of the Cashew component.

administrative_issues:

Resources (human, financial and time) must be appropriate and adequate to all the expected component of the project.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/223704

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location:

country:

Mozambique

region:

Africa

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eval_title:

Decent work for sustainable and inclusive economic transformation in Mozambique - Midterm Evaluation