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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:

Programme sustainability

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

The development cooperation projects; the technical units developing the tools and, ultimately, the Tripartite Constituents.

challenges:

A late identification of CPOs is a challenge to identify country priorities for technical assistance within a given P&P cycle.

success:

The existence of relevant CPOs, sources of funding and a strong coordination mechanisms created economies of scale, high-quality capacity building and allowed feedback to improve the tool for future use.

context:

The Sida-ILO partnership agreement identified a number of criteria for the selection of specific country outcomes to establish collaboration. These included (i) building on existing work on the development/ strengthening of Social Dialogue and Industrial Relations institutions in the framework of DWCPs; (iii) sufficient resources (from pooled funds) to support the planned activities; (iii) the probability of achieving success by end of 2019; or (iv) the capacity and commitment of government and the Social Partners to sound Industrial Relations. TheOBI, under each output, identified a number of CPOs which had a primary linkage to indicator 7.3. These outputs have served as a primary mechanism to establish close collaboration with field offices and development projects. At the time of implementations, there were a number of IR projects being implemented in countries where relevant CPOs had been identified. This included Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Myanmar. Also, the Tripartite Partners had also identified CPOs linked to the OBI outputs in countries where no projects existed, such as Indonesia and Sri Lanka. In these cases, Sida funding financially supported the activity and the ILO DWTs provided the technical support through the work of the field specialists.

description:

A strategy that involves HQ and field structure reinforces impact and sustainability of the outcomes The delivery of OBI outputs, and the IR Toolkit more specifically, benefitted from complementary resources from development cooperation projects in the field. This included well-grounded projects in the ILO, such as BETTERWORK, and decentralised development projects in the field, some supported with Swedish funding. Bringing together in an integrated programme components of technical units and projects in close coordination lead to economies of scale and overall better outcomes, as pulling funds and expertise allowed testing the tool in field activities with the tripartite and bipartite partners and this, in return, provided valuable feedback to improve the tool and make it practical-oriented.

administrative_issues:

Cooperation HQ-field is facilitated by establishing clear criteria to identify windows of opportunity in the design phase of the project.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/236256

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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