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Sida-ILO Partnership Programme 2018-2019 Outcome-based funding to Outcome 7 with a focus on Social Dialogue, Industrial Relations and Collective Bargaining (Phase I) - Final evaluation

eval_number:

2986

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2986

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Results-based management

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

PROGRAM, PARDEV

challenges:

The delay in the internal approval of project proposals had a negative impact on the capacity of the ILO to effectively align the project with the P&B and reduces the time initially planned for implementation.

success:

Not identified

context:

The Sida/ILO Partnership Programme 2018/2021 was signed in April 2018, using the “lightly earmarked thematic funding” modality. The funding was distributed amongst themes selected by Sida, corresponding to three Policy Outcomes and two cross-cutting policy drivers. It included P&B Outcome 7, defined as Promoting Safe work and Workplace Compliance including in Global Value Chains. The PARDEV minute sheet informing about the approval noted that PARDEV and PROGRAM were “available to guide the allocation and programming process.” Approval minutes at individual project level would be issued “once they have completed the appraisal process.” The relevant technical unit started then the process of preparing a project proposal, with a strategy to reach the project objectives. The proposal was approved in September 2018, more than four months after the starting date of the Outcome-based funding. During the evaluation some interviewees gave reasons for such a delay. These included (i) the late reception of CPOs by national offices - identifying potential targeted CPOs was established as a requisite for the approval and (ii) the absence of clear deadlines for the internal approval of outcome-based internal proposals. The ILO needs to design differentiated procedures for the approval of proposals in outcome-based funding to ensure better alignment with the timelines of the P&B and to allow sufficient time for effective implementation.

description:

The extensive internal timelines for approval of outcome-based funding project proposals -and the consequent delay in the transfer of funds – reduced significantly the time available for project implementation. It contributed to de-linking the project from the P&B cycle and had also had an impact to the validity and coherence of project design and the effectiveness of implementation.

administrative_issues:

N/A

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/236251

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location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

Sida-ILO Partnership Programme 2018-2019 Outcome-based funding to Outcome 7 with a focus on Social Dialogue, Industrial Relations and Collective Bargaining (Phase I) - Final evaluation