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Enhancing Rural Access Agro-Forestry (‘ERA Agro-Forestry’): Improving access to agro-forestry areas - Final evaluation
- eval_number:
- 2711
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2711
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Road construction
- category:
- Sector
- comments:
- The immediate beneficiaries are relevant institutions within GoTL, the contractors and workers on ERD and the rural population benefiting from employment and improved roads. Lessons from the case study will be of value for other projects in Timor-Leste and the case study has lessons for others implementing EIIP projects.
- challenges:
- While a roadmap has been prepared and relevant key stakeholders have been identified in the White Paper, the issues to be addressed are complex involving a number of stakeholders. Therefore, progress will need further perseverance and adaptability in implementing the recommendations in the White Paper.
- success:
- The causal factors for success are government commitment to the labour-based approach and identification of stakeholders who have the capacity and willingness to progress the changes.
- context:
- The context is: (a) commitment of the government to labour-based rural roads rehabilitation and maintenance, and (b) ERD as an established rural roads rehabilitation and maintenance programme. Government policy and ERD planning and implementation effectiveness could be improved by the lessons.
- description:
- One of the most important achievements of a donor funded EIIP project is for the models developed and the lessons learnt to be adapted for long lasting benefits arising from institutional strengthening and reforms of a national employment intensive infrastructure programme. The lesson learnt is the need for continuing attention to institutional strengthening from the outset, perseverance and flexibility to adapt when there are obstacles and coalition building. This is a lesson with applicability beyond Timor-Leste and could be disseminated as a case study.
- administrative_issues:
- The lessons learnt confirm the ILO EIIP emphasis on including sustainability through capacity building, institutional development and reforms when designing new projects. The ERA-AF case study shows ways in which effectiveness could be improved.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/224977
- location:
- country:
- East Timor
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- eval_title:
- Enhancing Rural Access Agro-Forestry (‘ERA Agro-Forestry’): Improving access to agro-forestry areas - Final evaluation
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