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Market systems development for Decent Work: the Lab – Phase II - Final evaluation
- eval_number:
- 3210
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3210
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Knowledge management
- category:
- Organizational issues
- comments:
- The ILO
- challenges:
- n/a
- success:
- Interviewees repeatedly expressed the importance and significance of the Lab’s unique positioning and skill during the evaluation. The Lab’s combined expertise is important to the ILO because it builds its comparative advantage, positioning it as a responsive implementer with a unique set of competences. It also generates learning that is relevant to key strategic priorities. For donors, Lab 2’s niche focus provides expertise not available elsewhere on how to combine two key priorities in programming. For the wider field, Lab 2’s knowledge contributes to debates on how MSD can be applied in new sectors, to address decent work deficits beyond income and job creation.
- context:
- External partners, including influential donors, wanted to work with the Lab precisely because it represented MSD competency sitting within the ILO – a multinational with a reputation for technical expertise in the world of work, strong public sector networks and international credibility. The preconditions are that the Lab has developed expertise in jobs, employment and decent work and in MSD. It is therefore uniquely placed to bring them together.
- description:
- By combining the ILO’s reputation and knowledge about decent work with the MSD community’s systems development expertise, it is possible to carve out a niche which is in high demand and of significant value to the ILO, its donors and the wider field.
- administrative_issues:
- N/A
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/231968
- location:
- country:
- Inter-Regional
- region:
- Inter-Regional
- eval_title:
- Market systems development for Decent Work: the Lab – Phase II - Final evaluation
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