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Improving Labour Market Integration of Syrian Refugees and Host Communities in Türkiye - Midterm evaluation

eval_number:

2789

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2789

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Planning and programme design

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

Direct: ● 11.600 Syrian refugees ● 1400 host community members ● 100 employers ● 650 staff from relevant governmental institutions ● 300 representatives from tripartite constituents ● 250 enterprises Indirect: 35,000 people

challenges:

Since 2015, several projects are currently implemented by ILO within the scope of its Programme of Support for Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Turkey. Most of these projects are implemented at the same or similar locations where Syrian refugees are densely located. Any overlapping activity might cause reduction of efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The design and implementation of such projects poses as a challenge for the ILO.

success:

The strong support of the donor PRM and the ILO Office for Turkey has been sustained contributing to the achievement of the objectives in line with the ILO’s Programme of Support under its three pillars, in addition to contributing to the achievement of UN’s 2030 Agenda for SDG particularly Goal 8 “to promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all”, and the UNDCS for Turkey (2016-2020), specifically Priority 4 for Migration and International Protection; • The accumulated expertise and experience within the former phases are transferred to the following phases, which in the end increases effectiveness in delivering the outputs as well as efficiency in implementing the activities; • The needs of the target groups have been well assessed starting from the first phase and with a wider coverage or in-depth in the follow-up phases; • Progressive improvement in designing the activities to deliver the outputs, using rather innovative methods in the follow-up activities designed building upon the results of the former phases, some significant examples in this phase are Transition to Formality Programme (TFP), Social Compliance and Audit in private sector, and Local Economic Development and Value Chain Analysis. With reference to capacity building of the Syrian refugees and host communities but also the members of the related public partners such as SSI, MoJ, MoFLSS GLIB and DGILF, as well as the private and social partners such as the Chambers, IHKIB and MEKSA for enhanced labour migration management in addition to universities. • Sustainability of the outputs and outcomes are ensured through the follow-up projects benefiting from the high ownership and strong support of the donor and the ILO Office for Turkey.

context:

Within the scope of the ILO Programme of Support for Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Turkey, since 2015, ILO has been implementing seven projects aiming to strengthen the labour market and business development environment through stimulation of decent work opportunities in Turkey.

description:

Design and Effectiveness: Complementarity and Synergy created among different projects implemented by ILO under its Programme of Support ILO has put specific emphasis on ensuring complementarities and synergies among the projects at their design and implementation phases, to avoid overlapping fields of interventions while addressing the prevailing needs of the target groups. Accordingly, the project has been designed to complement at least three projects (the MADAD project, the UN Women project funded by the EU and the Non-Syrian Refugee project funded by PRM), which demonstrated complementarity and synergies through joint efforts of co-sharing the activities in delivering the outputs and also sharing of the costs, thus improving cost effectiveness of both projects.

administrative_issues:

ILO carefully designs and manages its projects Programme of Support for Response to ensure complementarities.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/233306

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location:

country:

Türkiye

region:

Europe and Central Asia

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eval_title:

Improving Labour Market Integration of Syrian Refugees and Host Communities in Türkiye - Midterm evaluation