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Skills Development for the Renewable Energy Sector (SkiDRES) Public-Private Development Partnership - Final evaluation
- eval_number:
- 3208
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3208
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Planning and programme design
- category:
- Organizational issues
- comments:
- The users and direct “beneficiaries” are the key stakeholders of the project and the indirect beneficiaries in this case are the populations that are benefitting from the fact that there exists skilled expertise in the country/regional required for the transformation to RE/EE.
- challenges:
- The challenges of local participation in planning of a project, in this context, are that workshops may be costly; some stakeholders are “fatigued” and therefore less involved.
- success:
- The positive effects of participation in project development and planning can be great for both the implementing organizations and the key stakeholders - such as sense of ownership and responsibility to contribute towards shared objectives and learning.
- context:
- This lesson has a universal applicability and is highly relevant to most development/technical assistance projects and programmes – and the level of success in implementation may even depend on whether or not a Project applies the learning of adhering to the principles of participation and empowering stakeholders.
- description:
- Local participation in project development and planning:
In the case that a project idea has not sprung from a national organization/agency, or been developed as project proposal locally, it is very important that the key stakeholders become engaged from the start, not only the key implementing agency (in this case the KGRTC). It is clearly not adequate to discuss or present a project idea/proposal individually and/or ask for comments in a meeting or two. It mostly requires active participation in a workshop – or even a series of workshops - where all stakeholders are brought together around the same table in the deliberations and provided with tools to enable them to participate in the strategic planning process. After decades of working on technical assistance this is not a new lesson to be learnt, neither for ILO, nor Sida.
- administrative_issues:
- n/a
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/241996
- location:
- country:
- Zambia
- region:
- Africa
- eval_title:
- Skills Development for the Renewable Energy Sector (SkiDRES) Public-Private Development Partnership - Final evaluation
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