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Clustered Evaluation of the Sida-Funded Interventions under Outcome 1 (2018-2019), Phase I ILO-SIDA Partnership Programme, 2018-2021 - Final evaluation

eval_number:

3167

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3167

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Planning and programme design

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

Targeted users are ILO project management, ILO country staff, project partners, and SIDA.

challenges:

There are no significant challenges or negative lessons to draw from countries receiving more than one phase of ILO-SIDA Partnership funding.

success:

Building on a previous phase enabled the strengthening of national policies at regional/provincial levels and ensured that policies respond to local needs. In countries with previous ILO-SIDA funding, programme interventions were directly linked to previous work. Examples include: In Cambodia, the support for the implementation of the national employment policy is a direct follow up to the policy’s development. Competency standards, competency-based curricula, apprenticeships and recognition of prior learning are follow-up interventions of the previous cycle’s STED project. In Guatemala, technical assistance to support the implementation plans were linked to the National Employment Policy. While this is the first cycle of funding for Uganda, the interventions were a direct result of the national diagnostic analysis completed in 2018, which was funded by the Swedish embassy in Uganda.

context:

Countries with previous ILO-SIDA Partnership funding identified key success factors contributing to the sustainability of interventions as: a design that built on the achievements and knowledge of previous ILO-SIDA Partnership phases and the consideration of lessons learned and best practices to better respond to needs of states and stakeholders; social dialogue and ongoing technical assistance twinned with capacity building to ensure constituents are fully empowered to exercise their responsibilities.

description:

There is an added value of long-term financial commitment to countries that have benefitted from more than once cycle of the ILO-SIDA Partnership. This is especially true with respect to the sustained capacity building needed to move from the development of a NEP and effective sectoral skills strategies to their implementation.

administrative_issues:

Sustainability measures and exit strategies should be put in place in countries that have had more than one phase of ILO-SIDA Partnership funding, in order to ensure the possibility of replicating outcome-based funding in other countries.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/247265

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location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

Clustered Evaluation of the Sida-Funded Interventions under Outcome 1 (2018-2019), Phase I ILO-SIDA Partnership Programme, 2018-2021 - Final evaluation