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The ILO and PBSO programme to sustain peace and foster development through employment creation in conflict-affected situations - Final evaluation
- eval_number:
- 2879
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2879
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Knowledge management
- category:
- Organizational issues
- comments:
- ILO HQ Geneva, country and regional offices, and PBSO
- challenges:
- A clear constraining factor for mainstreaming peace and social cohesion
was found to be the limited project staff employed.
- success:
- The most important success factor was precisely when staff took the role
of direct technical advisors and presented their support to projects.
- context:
- ILO country and regional offices that has made use of the dedicated CSPR
team for mainstreaming peace and social cohesion, as practical support
and/or in a direct technical advisory role, were successful in
implementing a peace and/or social cohesion aspects to their
projects/programs.
The size of the program and team is relatively small, composed of two key
staff members, and funded by external sources. The limited availability of
the team meant that only a few country-offices were able to engage with
them directly for support.
- description:
- Utilising complementary instruments (the handbook,
trainings/workshops, direct advisory and additional material) all aiming at
assisting ILO project staff in integrating peace and social cohesion issues
in their work must be strategically timed. To enable the programme
impact to be sustainable long term, tools, instruments and human
resources need to allow projects to easily incorporate social cohesion and
peacebuilding in results frameworks without specific expert support and
they need to be institutionalised through existing organisational (ILO) and
cross-organisational (PBSO) structures.
Overall, the demand within ILO for this approach and specifically for very
practical support through the CSPR team seems to be significant and
exceeding the amount of work and support the current (small) team can
provide. This speaks for increasing the number of staff in the CSPR team.
In addition, interviewees have expressed a wish for including similar
support, e.g., through dedicated advisors on peace and social cohesion, in
ILO’s regional offices. For the PBSO office, this could serve as a lessonlearned
on how to improve their role as advisors for UN agencies on
cross-organisational aspects of peace and social cohesion in the field of
employment promotion.
- administrative_issues:
- Limited staff and resources for the mainstreaming of employment for
peace within ILO (and PBSO) has kept the opportunities of mainstreaming
through direct project support to country and regional offices limited.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/239267
- location:
- country:
- Inter-Regional
- region:
- Inter-Regional
- eval_title:
- The ILO and PBSO programme to sustain peace and foster development through employment creation in conflict-affected situations - Final evaluation
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