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Strengthening the Resilience of Syrian Women and Girls and Host Communities in Türkiye - Final evaluation

eval_number:

3168

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3168

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Training

category:

Employment

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comments:

The most vulnerable, including Syrian refugee women, and the host community women, specifically living in the province of Gaziantep in Turkey.

challenges:

Targeting younger women with job prospects was likely to enhance the project’s success in reaching its goals in terms of increasing the employability of women and improving their chances and opportunities in the labour market. Conducting this training program with younger and more employable generation of women will equip them with knowledge of their rights and provide them with more knowledge and exposure to ideas of gender equality, and eventually lead to an impact on their labour force participation and access to decent jobs. Otherwise, reaching women not looking for jobs takes away from the targeting efficiency of the program and reduced the impact of the program on women’s labour market transition.

success:

The project aimed to serve to the needs of the vulnerable Syrian refugee beneficiaries given the fact that the project activities, outputs and outcomes have been identified prior to the start of this project to address the real needs of the direct beneficiaries, based on a comprehensive Needs Assessment of Syrian Women and Girls under Temporary Protection conducted in 2017 by UN Women in partnership with ASAM.

context:

Throughout the project, the selection of beneficiaries was coordinated by ASAM and ILO. The disagreements between two partners about the selection criteria. ASAM prioritized the selection of women, who are vulnerable to poverty and abuse, whereas ILO wanted to target young, employable Syrian women and girls to achieve the objectives of the project. Even though there were tradeoffs between two partners, more vulnerable women were selected as beneficiaries of the project

description:

Revising the targeting of the training program will be important for enhancing effectiveness in coming interventions aiming facilitating women’ access into labor market designed by ILO. Early intervention and targeting of the program to younger women may create change in their perceptions and behaviour more easily than with older women who have established norms and behaviour in their daily lives. Targeting younger women with job prospects is also likely to enhance the project’s success in reaching its goals in terms of increasing the employability of women and improving their chances and opportunities in the labour market.

administrative_issues:

Since the selected beneficiaries were mostly vulnerable women in every term, ILO ensured the physical and psycho-social conditions to address the specific needs of the vulnerable women, both Syrian and host community women. ASAM, in cooperation with UN Women and ILO, offers a unique protected location and fulfils the pre-requisites for effective delivery of the outputs including outreach activities targeting vulnerable women, presenting “innovative and good practices”.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/244931

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location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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country:

Türkiye

region:

Europe and Central Asia

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eval_title:

Strengthening the Resilience of Syrian Women and Girls and Host Communities in Türkiye - Final evaluation