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Inclusive Growth through Decent Work in the Great Rift Valley - Midterm Evaluation

eval_number:

2891

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2891

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Gender equality

category:

Conditions of work & equality

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comments:

Young women/girls, trainees in the Project

challenges:

Had the girls been empowered and known how to protect themselves, the drop out numbers from the Project´s training courses could have been negligible.

success:

n/a

context:

Despite the fact that the poverty is a known driver of early marriage (and early pregnancies) and the Project had produced a Gender analysis and a Gender action plan the project could not prevent that young women dropped out the training due to pregnancies and marriage. Understandably, the Project was not in a position to influence the training institutions closing due to safety reasons related to the restrictions and the Covid 19 pandemic. However, it seems there was no preparedness for the consequences .i.e. that many girls would not return in January 2021.

description:

SRHR activities should be part of ILO technical assistance projects that implement activities in rural communities where poverty and lack of education are rampant and that involve young vulnerable women (and men) as “beneficiaries” Projects and institutions should be better prepared for potential consequences for young women in times of pandemics, or calamities, in society that very quickly can turn good developments upside down. This applies particularly to young women/girls who already are vulnerable, have little education, or access to sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) and information, and when the society in general lacks social security/social protection.

administrative_issues:

Some element of SRHR should be part of Project´s design when addressing young women (partnership could be forged with UNICEF) and the activities should be reflected in the budget and the results framework.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/239420

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location:

country:

Kenya

region:

Africa

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eval_title:

Inclusive Growth through Decent Work in the Great Rift Valley - Midterm Evaluation