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Employment and Social Affairs Platform (ESAP) - Final evaluation
- eval_number:
- 2559
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2559
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Planning and programme design
- category:
- Organizational issues
- comments:
- The beneficiaries are the national project partners, relevant stakeholders, and CEELex experts in the Western Balkan region.
- challenges:
- The potential of the ESAP virtual platform is not yet realized, and the site is insufficiently user-friendly. ESAP’s limited financial resources only provide for a limited number of regional events, which are key to maintaining a sense of ownership and engagement within the network. Finally, the regional approach needs to maintain more regular direct contact with all project partners.
- success:
- The practices and tools developed to enhance regional cooperation have produced positive results and enabled stakeholder interest and engagement. The elements of the regional networking engagement strategy form a model that is potentially replicable in other regions where countries share strategic interests or objectives. The network needs to be formalized, however.
- context:
- The Western Balkans is a sub-region with strong political coherence, as EU accession remains a key objective for all countries. This fact alone makes a regional intervention relevant to supporting the targeted countries in achieving this objective. However, a regional project requires more than just bringing countries together or offering a platform for them to exchange information. The various specific national political situations are at least as crucial and must be considered within the regional approach. For instance, regional activities should have objectives (like the ESC national recommendations) and progress and results indicators that are tailored to the specific countries.
- description:
- A regional approach can offer an efficient model for instituting change, under certain conditions and provided that it is well thought out. The regional approach elaborated by ESAP shows that this method can be a best practice, and can be modelled.
- administrative_issues:
- The regional approach requires the administrative support of the ILO, and the resources to organize events and communicate within the region.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/236996
- location:
- country:
- Europe and Central Asia - regional
- region:
- Europe and Central Asia
- eval_title:
- Employment and Social Affairs Platform (ESAP) - Final evaluation
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