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Egypt youth employment (EYE): Jobs and private sector development in rural Egypt - Final evaluation
- eval_number:
- 2788
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2788
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Planning and programme design
- category:
- Organizational issues
- comments:
- ILO CO, DWT and HQ, as well as Development Partners.
- challenges:
- Very long no-cost extensions (e.g. of two years) may result in several disadvantageous consequences. Firstly, it disrupts the ratio between the expenditures for staff costs and for actual activities (Training, Seminars, Sub-Contracts, etc.) because staff costs tend to continue mainly unadjusted over the entire project period although the total project budget remains the same, and this implies thus less funds for other budget categories. Secondly, internal rules of Development Partners often stipulate that the disbursed funds should be used latest within one year of receiving it, and this may result in internal constraints on the side of the Development Partner at the time of the audit especially when the project is completed only some 3.5 years after having received the total funds from the Development Partner.
- success:
- The generous allotment of no-cost extensions lead to flexibility to complete most project activities with the budget available.
- context:
- When a project runs into delays due to external circumstances it is custom for Development Partners to approve no-cost extensions of several months or even up to a year, but in the present project the implementation period was almost doubled (from 3 years to 5.5 years), due to the covid-19 lock down and the national clearance. The decision for which was mainly taken by the Development Partner during exceptionally uncertain times in the middle of the COVID-19 Lockdown.
- description:
- No-cost extensions of three-year projects should not surpass an additional period of two years unless in very extreme circumstances.
- administrative_issues:
- See above under Challenges/Negative Lessons.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/233178
- location:
- country:
- Egypt
- region:
- Africa
- eval_title:
- Egypt youth employment (EYE): Jobs and private sector development in rural Egypt - Final evaluation
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