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Asia Regional Child Labour Programme - Midterm evaluation

eval_number:

3118

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3118

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Planning and programme design

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

ILO constituents, the project management team, the project designer(s) and development partners.

challenges:

Challenges are resources and the external environment and how the Project can operate to overcome them. Sometimes negative lessons are also learnt while implementing a large research project.

success:

Recruitment of the whole project team and their orientation on the projects’ deliverables, including setting up an oversight monitoring plan with full support of the ILO administration, will aid in achieving successful outcomes.

context:

The size of the project team and the duration for which it is in place depends on the project’s results framework. This is to say that contextual analysis and outcomes, along with outputs, are the main issues to be considered for determining the size and duration of the project team.

description:

Setting up of a large research programme with an ad-hoc team within the ILO takes time. This has to be considered when planning project implementation and achievement of results. The project, with an immense amount of research, particularly in collaboration with the government statistical authority entrusted with credible research and data gathering, requires continuous coordination and technical inputs and a versatile team with appropriate skills and high levels of competence. The effective implementation of such a large research project requires a team that can work for long periods, dedicating time and energy on the implementation and achievement of results. This would be more effectively achieved by lightening the administrative procedures for hiring personnel. It was decided to give the responsibility for working on the research component to the Fundamentals Research Unit. However, this team has had many other issues to tackle and has had limited time to dedicate to the project. Hence, it would be beneficial to have a separate project team for implementation of large research projects.

administrative_issues:

Continuous review of the project activities and obstacles jointly with the project team and supporting them for adjustment in the action plan and resource allocation, including administrative support in coping with external environment.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/249168

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location:

country:

Asia and the Pacific - regional

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Asia Regional Child Labour Programme - Midterm evaluation