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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:
- Rural economy
- category:
- Economic and social development
- comments:
- The immediate beneficiaries will be the ERD project and other labour-based projects and ultimately people benefiting from employment on ERD and other labour-based projects.
- challenges:
- The challenge being addressed is the risk of poor performance of labour-based projects and ultimately the risk of the validity of the labour-based approach being questioned.
- success:
- The positives are realising the twin benefits of effective asset creation and supplementing the livelihoods of underemployed and unemployed rural people on a substantial scale since GoTL and ERD are committed to the labour-based approach for improving and preserving rural roads. The benefits will arise from the mitigating solutions proposed. These could include a bottom up approach with the local communities bidding for projects demonstrating local commitment and a more flexible labour-based approach adapted to local conditions.
- context:
- The context is the delays ERA-AF has experienced because of the human factors identified above.
- description:
- There are lessons to learn from investigating the local level human reasons for delays and how and to what extent they could be mitigated. The high level of rural poverty and underemployment offer a strong rationale for using the labour-based approach at a broad level. However the lesson from the Project is that a range of reasons including concerns of local people on the adverse effects of road alignment and construction on farmlands and other assets, obstruction by interest groups such as veterans, contractors not benefiting from the Project and others in local leadership positions pursuing self interest delay projects and adequate labour supply is also a constraint in some localities. Understanding these issues and more importantly developing strategies and practices to mitigate the effects would be valuable.
- administrative_issues:
- The lesson if taken on board will be for the design and implementation of ERD and similar projects in Timor-Leste and elsewhere. ILO staff will be better equipped to design and advise on the labour-based approach and its adaptation in the context of the local context including the labour situations.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/224982
- 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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