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Employment through Labour Intensive Infrastructure Programs in Lebanon (Phase IV and V) and in Jordan (Phase VI) - Clustered evaluation
- eval_number:
- 3501
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3501
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Programme implementation
- category:
- Organizational issues
- comments:
- EIIP management should consider how to overcome these challenges in cooperation with donor agencies to fix a decent (negotiated) minimum wage to benefit domestic and Syrian workers in Jordan and Lebanon who will join future Cash for Work jobs.
- challenges:
- As no workers were available locally, they had to be brought in from far away - sometime 2 hours’ drive and from different communities. This was a violation of the EIIP regulations who set a minimum distance of 20 minutes. This prevented the program in Lebanon from responding to the EIIP program’s initial purpose of strengthening cohesion between refugees and host communities.
- success:
- Although the program did not contribute to community cohesion within local communities, positive working relations were established between Syrian workers and workers of Lebanese origin.
- context:
- A related precondition for availability is that Lebanese are interested in the work offered and that minimum wages render both Lebanese and Syrian workers interested in the job offerings.
- description:
- In Lebanon workers were not available in the localities where projects were planned. This led to a situation where the programme had to mobilise workers outside the communities where the intervention took place. This reduces the chance that the project contributes to reduce social tensions between refugees and host community members. To strengthen the likelihood that the program contributes to minimizing community tensions between host community members and Syrian refugees, ‘availability of workers’ must be introduced as a criterion when project sites are selected.
- administrative_issues:
- The ILO should facilitate an assessment of the available work force before selecting sites for project implementation. This should be part of the criterion for site selection. ILO should ensure that workers employed in the EIIP projects get a decent salary, this should be part of the program design and implementation contracts at all levels.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/2333765
- location:
- country:
- Jordan
- region:
- Arab States
- country:
- Lebanon
- region:
- Arab States
- eval_title:
- Employment through Labour Intensive Infrastructure Programs in Lebanon (Phase IV and V) and in Jordan (Phase VI) - Clustered evaluation
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