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Formalizing Access to the Legal Labour Market for Refugees and Host Communities in Jordan – Phase III

eval_number:

2336128

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2336128

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Gender equality

category:

Conditions of work & equality

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comments:

International Labour Organisation, Regional Women’s Enterprise Specialist and Jordan Country Team.

challenges:

The current PRM III WDB model is effective, as a response to the Syrian Crisis and meeting objectives of livelihoods, resilience and social cohesion, and promoting women’s economic equality. These objectives are focused in the short to medium terms, within a fixed-term project. The WDB model is not designed to provide long term business development support (regulatory reform; access to finance; market assessment and access; product design; ongoing mentorship and advice; advanced training).

success:

The ILO is positioned to design a complementary women’s enterprise development programme in Jordan, taking a longer term perspective on sustainability and growth. Private sector development is core to the ILO’s competence. There is important support for women’s economic equity and entrepreneurship, from national and international stakeholders.

context:

The PRM III project successfully contributed to the start-up of women’s’ enterprises. A representative survey of beneficiaries of the last three PRM Women do Business iterations show good sustainability and positive effects in the lives of women, their families and communities. However, the survey also shows that women-owned enterprises have difficulty scaling up and diversifying. They lack access to key resources, for financing and market development, among other factors. Most remain at a certain size, as family or small community enterprises oriented to providing supplementary family income. This result is not negative but does not promote women’s enterprise to its full potential.

description:

Leveraging established programme models to develop a complementary and advanced women’s enterprise programme.The PRM III Women Do Business programme was based on an established programme model. For PRM 3, the ILO improvised, leveraged previous experience, and trusted partnerships. These were critical factors contributing to positive results performance, expressed as the successful start-up of women’s enterprise. However, the current programme model remains project-based, short term and implemented from the approach of resilience and social cohesion, responding to the Syrian Refugee Crisis. It was not designed to promote business development and the scaling up of women’s business over the longer term, which requires a stronger private sector development orientation.

administrative_issues:

Design of a complementary and advanced women’s enterprise programme, operating from a private sector development perspective and offering services to support scale up and sustainability for women’s enterprise. The ILO may act in cooperation with other national and international stakeholders, to leverage resources.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/2336256

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location:

country:

Jordan

region:

Arab States

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eval_title:

Formalizing Access to the Legal Labour Market for Refugees and Host Communities in Jordan – Phase III