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Capacity of government and the social partners to develop and implement employment policies and programmes that are well suited to Vietnam's dynamic ... - RBSA independent evaluation

eval_number:

3077

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3077

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Monitoring and evaluation

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

 ILO PROGRAM  ILO EVAL  ILO PARDEV

challenges:

 Limited evaluability of the RBSA interventions due to the very broad Results Framework which do not align with the existed reporting mechanisms

success:

 Understanding of the necessity to introduce of theory of change in all phases of the implementation to ensuring long-term impact and sustainability of the intervention’s results and assistance

context:

The evaluation of RBSA interventions could be done with usage of the standard ILO Evaluation Policy, but only under condition of existence of a proper intervention’s design document, monitoring and reporting system.

description:

The evaluability of RBSA intervention is quite limited under the current planning, implementation and reporting frameworks. The RBSA intervention does not have the explicitly articulated Theory of Change, which includes all assumptions and causal hypotheses which would allow to explain how a group of early and intermediate accomplishments sets the stage for producing long-range results. The design of the RBSA intervention is made on the assumption that the Country Office has the DWCP which has the Results Framework which could be used for implementation monitoring. However, the DWCP Results Framework cannot be used as a monitoring tool of the RBSA intervention. This is so due the following reasons: (i) DWCP is a framework document which contains broad objectives agreed with tripartite constituents and only overall targets for the whole timeframe of the programme (i.e. 4-5 years); (ii) DWCP Results Matrix has baselines, but milestones are absent, which prevents to have a comparison of what was planned vs what was achieved in the specific reporting period (i.e. on annual basis); (iii) DWCP Results Matrix contains only outcome indicators which cannot be used for a proper results-based monitoring. At the same time, the CPO M&E Framework has indicators, but they are high level outcome indicators applied for all ILO Member States which do not allow to report on all the achievements of particular intervention in a specific country.

administrative_issues:

 Difficulties in establishing attribution, i.e. how much of the changes can be attributed to the efforts of the RBSA intervention

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/250233

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location:

country:

Viet Nam

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Capacity of government and the social partners to develop and implement employment policies and programmes that are well suited to Vietnam's dynamic ... - RBSA independent evaluation