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Towards safe, healthy and declared work in Ukraine - Final evaluation

eval_number:

3123

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3123

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Armed conflict/crisis

category:

Employment

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comments:

Social Partners/workers and employers, including those in displacement.

challenges:

One major challenge is to tap into the development-oriented skills and perspective to make the crisis response, timely, relevant and, ideally, strategic (e.g.: Address PSS in the emergency, though with the perspective of continuing addressing PSS with a development perspective.

success:

The project was able to tap in its development culture, technical expertise and close relationships with constituents to devise a relevant crisis response. The donor flexibility and prompt reaction to reallocate funding to crisis activities is an important contributing factor.

context:

The urgent priorities emerging from the war in Ukraine have opened a “crisis response” track in addition to the “reform track” the project in particular and Ukraine in general, has engaged in.

description:

The project has embodied very strongly a very efficient approach addressing the “emergency and development nexus” where the development tracks and crisis response tracks have mutually nurtured one another.The war has affected the project as its response to the crisis has widened its scope of activities and increased its workload. The completion of the project may be the right time to refocus around topics and reassess workload: the previous phase was ambitious, in the positive sense, as it tackled fundamental issues, requiring changing mindsets and build a culture of health and safety at work, of labour inspection and address the very deeply rooted situation of undeclared work in Ukraine. To the pressing needs (psychological health, forced labour, human trafficking) emerged from the war, this project has widened its initial scope to respond to urgent challenges through a “crisis-response” track (repurposed activities). In parallel, the project has continued supporting important priorities, such as the social dialogue, labour inspection reform or the OSH legislation, which have been, at present, side-lined by other priorities and the martial law. The evaluation draws two conclusions from this observation: 1.The volume of “development” and “response” -tracks of the current project activities and the possible further development of the PSS component is likely to be too high to be managed under one project. the discussions between the constituents, maintaining the social dialogue and consistently remaining engaged in active advocacy.

administrative_issues:

No major or complicated administrative issues. It requires strong human dedication and commitment.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/249435

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location:

country:

Ukraine

region:

Europe and Central Asia

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eval_title:

Towards safe, healthy and declared work in Ukraine - Final evaluation