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More and Quality jobs are created through better policies and frameworks and strengthened labour market information systems - RBSA independent evaluation

eval_number:

3076

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3076

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Planning and programme design

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

ILO Liaison Office, donors

challenges:

A key challenge is the difficulty of providing development assistance aimed at improving service delivery and livelihoods in the Myanmar political context where, while a formal ceasefire agreement has been signed between parties to conflict, a collaborative approach to implementation has not ensued as was hoped.

success:

The possibilities of benefits for local communities of the LRB model have been witnessed by EAOs the Government. Data is available upon which to advocate for uptake of the approach.

context:

While the interventions produced good results for beneficiaries and the modelling in the case study was sound, the assumption that the demonstration that the LRB approach provided social and economic benefits to the community would lead to take up of the approach by authorities proved problematic upon implementation. The UGoM has put job creation for peacebuilding at the top if its formal policy agenda in the Myanmar context, however, the political economy context impeded the potential for roll out of this agenda evenly across Government controlled and EAO controlled areas. Given the challenges, two years was not a realistic timeframe in which to achieve uptake by either the Government or EAOs of the LRB model for job creation and infrastructure development at national level or within EAO led states.

description:

In a complex and volatile political context, it is not effective to have a short project. There is a need for sufficient time and flexibility to be built into implementation for strategies to be successful. It is not realistic to expect this to occur is a timeframe of two years.

administrative_issues:

N/A

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/250108

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location:

country:

Myanmar

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

More and Quality jobs are created through better policies and frameworks and strengthened labour market information systems - RBSA independent evaluation