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ILO-UK Prosperity Fund Skills Programme for South East Asia (UKPFSEA) - Midterm evaluation
- eval_number:
- 3126
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3126
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Monitoring and evaluation
- category:
- Organizational issues
- comments:
- Project managers, project officers, M&E officers
- challenges:
- The donor in the program used monitoring methods which only partly relevant to program implementation. The program supplied the information and spent resources on collecting the same which ultimately was technically not required (not justified). In particular the collection of value-for-money information was irrelevant. It should be noted that cost of collection also accrue to the beneficiaries and the beneficiary country.
- success:
- N.a.
- context:
- The Programme had to attend to several fields of monitoring that were requested by the donor. While it collected the relevant information, processed it, and submitted it to the donor, feedback on the results of the monitoring was minimal, useless, and/ or very late.
- description:
- It is important to strike a reasonable balance between the wish for monitoring and its cost. This is a basic principle of all controlling or monitoring and evaluation systems. Where information is monitored that is not directly relevant to program performance, this reduces efficiency.
- administrative_issues:
- When negotiating and managing programs with donors, ILO should embrace the collection monitoring and evaluation information. However, it should also actively advise the donor on which information to collect and which not collect in order to achieve a good balance between the benefits of M&E and its cost. In these calculations, M&E costs accruing with beneficiaries need to also be accounted for.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/244274
- location:
- country:
- Asia and the Pacific - regional
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- eval_title:
- ILO-UK Prosperity Fund Skills Programme for South East Asia (UKPFSEA) - Midterm evaluation
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