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Employment through Labour Intensive Infrastructure in Jordan - Cluster evaluation

eval_number:

3005

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3005

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Monitoring and evaluation

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

The main users of this work will be the Employment Intensive Infrastructure Programme team, the donors and government partners. I would also be useful for the ILO as a whole to depend on the evidence base and literature around CfW and Employment Intensive Infrastructure Programme work.

challenges:

He key challenge will be the time and resources available to complete such studies. Often, a significant amount of time and resources are required to plan, design and implement studies. However this could be minimised through a targeted “fir-for-purpose” approach that works within the context.

success:

The use of evaluation also promotes learning and supports decision making. Good research and evaluation has a number of significant benefits. Hopefully it will lead to better decision-making and also provides demonstrable evidence of the benefits of the work completed to date.

context:

The context is heavily influenced by available resources, technical capacity and also a willingness to develop the evidence base. There is scope to combine efforts with other programmes and donors to undertake more detailed assessments. With five phases of implementation, it would be assumed that there would be significant amounts of data and information that could be used.

description:

To promote the concept of CfW and Employment Intensive Infrastructure Programme, more in-depth monitoring and evaluation should occur (rather than simply counting jobs) to provide an evidence-base to support future planning at municipal and donor levels Decisions to potentially shift away from CfW into more longer-term employment and asset creation, requires an evidence base. If longer phases are introduced, there is an opportunity to plan for more detailed evaluative efforts. There is scope to deepen evaluation studies and consider more detailed assessments (i.e. moving away from simple head counts of jobs created).

administrative_issues:

Significant resources are required, however there is an opportunity to outsource the work to a third-party provider. External support may be required to support the drafting of ToRs and study design. This can be factored into Phase VI planning.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/240136

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location:

country:

Jordan

region:

Arab States

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eval_title:

Employment through Labour Intensive Infrastructure in Jordan - Cluster evaluation