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Youth Employability Programme Component 2: Skills Initiative for Africa - Final evaluation

eval_number:

3128

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3128

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Tripartism & constituent partnerships

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

Enhanced political support improves the effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of the intervention. This in turn affects positively all who are meant to ultimately benefit from the project.

challenges:

The Covid-19 pandemic and unexpected political change in some countries have created difficulties in reaching out to key stakeholders and secured their support and approval for the implementation. For instance, after the sudden death of Tanzania’s President John Pombe Magufuli on 17 March 2021, Vice-president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, was sworn in as his successor. The political uncertainty and change of a new government led to a delay in the start of the intervention in the country. In Gabon, the government did not create favourable conditions for teleworking, which led to significant delay in the introduction and the implementation of the project.

success:

It emerges from the reports and interviews that leveraging the influence and privileged access of both internal and external partners to key stakeholders and constituents were important factors in the project’s smooth implementation.

context:

The project needed introduction and assistance for political approval in target countries; in some of these countries the ILO has local offices and privileged access to high-level government officials; in other countries the project’s partners like AUDA-NEPAD could support this process.

description:

LEVERAGING INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL PARTNERSHIPS FACILITATES ACCESS TO KEY STAKEHOLDERS AND ENHANCES THE IMPLEMENTATION. It emerges from the reports and interviews that leveraging the influence and privileged access of both internal and external partners to key stakeholders and constituents were important factors in the project’s smooth implementation. For instance, to mitigate the political challenges in Gabon and Tanzania, the ILO and AUDA-NEPAD wrote joint letters to the Ministries of Foreign Affairs asking for assistance in facilitating country level processes. In other cases, the project worked with ILO Country Offices to reach out to the responsible government ministries and were introduced at very high level. An example of this approach is the Director of the ILO Country Office in Zambia writing to the Minister of Labour to introduce the project.

administrative_issues:

Interviewees believed that the ILO Countries Offices took ownership after the initial introductions to synchronise the project with related ILO interventions, especially creating coherence with other Decent Work Country Programmes (DWCP).

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/247065

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location:

country:

Africa - regional

region:

Africa

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eval_title:

Youth Employability Programme Component 2: Skills Initiative for Africa - Final evaluation