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Employment Intensive Infrastructure Programmes (EIIPs) in Jordan and Lebanon - Final cluster evaluation
- eval_number:
- 2666
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2666
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Planning and programme design
- category:
- Organizational issues
- comments:
- The users targeted by this lesson are the key stakeholders, the donor, actual and potential partners and the government. But the ultimate beneficiaries are the workers on projects, those using the improved assets and those who benefit from a pro-employment development approach in the long term.
- challenges:
- A challenge is that the key stakeholders (notably the donor, the governments and other actual or potential partners) do not perceive the rounded benefits of the EIIP approach to be of sufficient added value in comparison with other CfW approaches. Another challenge is that EIIP offers short-term employment only and not a longer term livelihood improvement. To counter these challenges, it is essential to: (a) ensure that there is sufficient sustainable added value from the improved assets, and (b) develop links within the ILO and other partners whose focus is longer term livelihood improvement.
- success:
- With the exception the poof some activities in Phase II in Jordan referred to above, the projects and activities have differentiated the EIIP approach from CfW and demonstrated the potential for sustainability.
- context:
- This issue was highlighted by Phase II in Jordan which included activities which did not fulfil the asset improvement objective. EIIPs will always be less “efficient” if the sole objective is to be cost-effective in delivering cash to target groups with no consideration of whether the work is productive. It is important that the key stakeholders (the donor, the governments and actual and potential partners) are committed to the EIIP approach for the multiple benefits it offers.
- description:
- A key lesson arising from the comparison of projects and activities between phases and the two countries is the importance of differentiating between the EIIP approach (which combines the multiple objectives, short term employment, public asset improvement and potential for making a sustainable contribution to pro-employment development) and other cash for work (CfW) approaches.
- administrative_issues:
- EMPINVEST is strongly committed to the approach and appreciates its benefits. It and ILO more widely need to commit resources and expertise to continue addressing the first challenge highlighted above effectively and take on the second challenge.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/224275
- location:
- country:
- Jordan
- region:
- Arab States
- country:
- Lebanon
- region:
- Arab States
- eval_title:
- Employment Intensive Infrastructure Programmes (EIIPs) in Jordan and Lebanon - Final cluster evaluation
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