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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:

Monitoring and evaluation

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

The beneficiaries are the Syrian refugees and vulnerable members of the host communities who earn incomes from productive and decent work. More of the expenditure from using the LRBT approach goes to these target users generating more local indirect and induced employment and income than if the conventional approach is used. Further the programme directs resources into improving assets which may not otherwise have been improved.

challenges:

There are two main challenges. The first is to ensure that private sector contractors and public sector partners “buy into” the LRBT approach. This challenge reinforces the need for training, supervision, monitoring and guidance. The second challenge, essential for sustainability of the LRBT approach is that it is integrated into a pro-employment policy and more specifically that the policy stipulates that the LRBT approach should be used if its cost does not exceed that of the conventional approach by more than a given percentage, justified on the grounds of generating more employment for the target beneficiaries.

success:

If the EIIP model, with good quality supervision, monitoring and guidance being the essential elements, is accepted and adopted more widely and demonstrated to be effective, it will contribute to a longer term strategy of combining short term employment and improved public assets.

context:

The key contextual aspect is the combination of the high cost of labour, high levels of unemployment in the two countries and the labour market distress in the host communities with high proportion of Syrian refugees.

description:

Good quality monitoring and supervision and flexibility in the field to adapt the approach and seek innovative solutions are of key importance for efficient and effective application of the LRBT approach in general. They are even more important in the specific contexts in Jordan and Lebanon where labour costs are higher than in countries in which the LRBT approach can compete more easily with conventional approaches on cost.

administrative_issues:

EMPINVEST recognises that the importance of devoting sufficient resources to planning and supervising implementation. There is a need for wider acceptance of the resource commitment at the programme level to attain the benefits of efficient and effective operations in the short term and the longer term impacts of the LRBT approach.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/224295

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location:

country:

Jordan

region:

Arab States

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country:

Lebanon

region:

Arab States

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eval_title:

Employment Intensive Infrastructure Programmes (EIIPs) in Jordan and Lebanon - Final cluster evaluation