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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:
- Programme implementation
- category:
- Organizational issues
- comments:
- The EIIP team would benefit by being able to manage the project better. The donor would benefit by more effective use of the funding and lower overheads. The ultimate beneficiaries would be the beneficiaries (workers on the project and users of the improved assets.
- challenges:
- The outcomes of the current collaboration form have been lack of benefits in the form of rapid selection of suitable projects, sub-optimal performance of some projects, and high overhead costs.
- success:
- The benefits from the restructured collaboration in the form of a larger long term impact in fulfilling the objectives would be significant. The benefits of the end of the collaboration would be more effective control and focus on the objectives.
- context:
- It is not sufficient for UN agencies to have shared broad objectives for their collaboration to realise the benefits of combining their capabilities and knowledge. All UN agencies have their own culture and organisational systems and processes. They also seek to sustain and expand their scope of activities and seek donor funding for those purposes. Therefore in effect they are competitors for donor funding. When they are required to collaborate, the focus tends to be on the share of the available funding instead of combining their core competencies for mutual benefit under a unified governance and management structure.
- description:
- A major challenge for the Lebanon EIIP has been the problematic collaboration with UNDP. The lesson arising out of it is that for future phases either the collaboration needs to be restructured, a much stronger governance structure and a unified team under a leader with authority to control, or ended.
- administrative_issues:
- The options are to restructure the relationship or to end it. There are different implications for the ILO depending on the choice of option.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/224280
- 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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