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Vision Zero Fund - Myanmar - Midterm evaluation

eval_number:

3054

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3054

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Programme implementation

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

Project Team, ILO Liaison Office, ROAP, VZF-Global and HQ; Donors.

challenges:

The Inception Phase, being a more or less separate phase, led to a substantial delay in the arrival of the actual funding namely as late as April 2018. This was the result of the fact that the PRODOC was based on the achievements in the inception phase (ending in December 2017), and then the whole approval and negotiating process of the PRODOC had to be gone through especially at HQ in Geneva.

success:

The time and funding allocated to an ‘inception phase’ in May-December 2017 when for example the Assessment studies were done for the Garment and Ginger Value Chains; the fact that the project was able to build on the achievements of this phase has helped a lot. The early recruitment of key staff combined with a high degree of staff continuity; for example, the STO started already in May 2017 during the inception phase and well before the project itself started in January 2018.

context:

The VZF project in Myanmar initially started in 2017. The project follows a two-phase approach, namely an inception phase (completed before 31 December 2017) and a subsequent implementation phase. In Myanmar, VZF is working on two Global Supply Chains (GSC): the garment supply chain and a supply chain in agriculture, which were identified during the inception phase. The garment sector in Myanmar was selected by the project based on a donor request. However, despite the pre-selection of the sector, a comprehensive assessment of the sector was nevertheless conducted in line with the ILO-EU adapted methodology during the inception phase in order to identify the drivers and constraints for OSH improvement in the supply chain. Current conditions are favourable for garments to drive more export growth and revenue in Myanmar. In regard to the agriculture supply chain, the project conducted a value chain selection process in July-August 2017. The project initially considered seven agricultural commodities and the likelihood of project impact and replicability by focusing on main agriculturally-diverse areas, such as Shan State. The project eventually selected ginger based on an established ILO supply chain selection tool that incorporates various criteria.

description:

The Inception Phase of the Myanmar VZF-OSH project was positive in that solid assessments were made of the value chains considered for inclusion in the project, but negative in the sense that an inception phase which is separate from the project itself leads to many delays in the interim period especially related to the approval procedures of the PRODOC.

administrative_issues:

In designing a project and writing a PRODOC a balance needs to be found in an early preparatory set-up phase (inception) and possible delays to be incurred as a result of that.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/237771

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location:

country:

Myanmar

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Vision Zero Fund - Myanmar - Midterm evaluation