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Enabling job resilience and protecting decent work conditions in rural communities affected by Syrian Refugee crisis in North Lebanon - Final evaluation (RBSA components)

eval_number:

2747

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2747

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Planning and programme design

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

Project Team ILO RoAS ILO Geneva – DEVINVEST Department

challenges:

As the project is implemented at the local level in North Lebanon, it was thought that a local steering committee (for Components II and III) was much more relevant and would be sufficient for project implementation. Furthermore, the fact the project was short term in nature was a reason for not creating a central steering committee in addition to a local one.

success:

Certainly the local steering committee played a very good role in terms of coordination among different local stakeholders for Components II and III of the project.

context:

The project of Enhancing Job Resilience and Protecting Decent Work Conditions in Rural Communities Affected by the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Northern Lebanon has adopted a decentralized and local implementation approach, focusing on local communities in Northern Lebanon. Based on this, it created a steering committee at the local level to monitor and coordinate activities under Components 2 and 3. It did not consider the additional creation of a national steering committee, judging it unnecessary due to the local steering committee.

description:

Importance of a national steering committee even in a project focusing on a local community The project of Enhancing Job Resilience and Protecting Decent Work Conditions in Rural Communities Affected by the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Northern Lebanon has adopted a decentralized and local approach of implementation focusing on local communities in Northern Lebanon, and therefore created only local steering committee. However, entry points for programming in fragile and post-crisis situations demonstrate the appropriateness of specific approaches and can also inform or influence the policies and practices of the government and other actors. Thus they have to be perceived as far as possible as opportunities for strategic approaches . To better inform and influence government policies and practices, the project and ILO should have created a steering committee at the central level in addition to the local one. The latter should have included representatives from MoA, MoL, Ministry of Economy, National Federation of Trade Unions and Federation of Chambers of Commerce. In addition to better informing and influencing policies, such a committee would have enhanced the national ownership of the project (in complementarity to the strong local ownership established). It would have also supported the project in overcoming some of the structural, policy and legislative barriers, and paved the way for action to resolve these barriers, such as the ratification by Lebanese government of Convention 181 on private employment agencies. This appeared to be a serious barrier to the implementation of Component I of the project in connecting employment agencies to one another as well as to the public NEO.

administrative_issues:

A national steering committee should be included in future ToRs for projects, even those oriented locally in specific regions, to exist in complementarity to local implementation/executive committees.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/232734

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location:

country:

Lebanon

region:

Arab States

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eval_title:

Enabling job resilience and protecting decent work conditions in rural communities affected by Syrian Refugee crisis in North Lebanon - Final evaluation (RBSA components)