ILO

Back to index

Inclusive Growth, Social Protection and Jobs Programme: An ILO-IRISH-Aid Partnership Programme 2016-2021 - Midterm evaluation

eval_number:

3161

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3161

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Child labour

category:

Child labour, forced labour, human trafficking and slavery

---

comments:

Irish Aid, the donor agency/development partner within the framework of its new Strategy for Development countries launched in 2017; • ILO units: Social Protection (SOCPRO), Development for Investment (DEVINVEST) and Partnering for Development (PARDEV) departments at the ILO Headquarters in Geneva; ILO offices in Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Viet Nam and the staff of the Decent Work Country Teams (DWCT) involved in the Program in Pretoria, South Africa and Bangkok, Thailand. • Relevant ILO constituents (Government ministries, Employer Federations and Workers Unions); and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs); • UN agencies working with social protection and employment themes in the (UNJP-SPP) programmes e.g. UNICEF, UNDP and bilateral development organisations also supporting social protection.

challenges:

The challenges in this programme was the lack of adequate HQ level oversight (and communication/contacts) with the subprojects in 5 countries which was manifested in the Project Document and the LFAs and Theory of Change matrices not being up-dated and communicated among the sub-components and with HQ level (this created a big problem for the independent evaluation.).

success:

n/a

context:

Structural issues, oversight and including management/leadership issues of a multi-country programme which is decentralised but where there is a clear link to a sub-programme and programme implemented from HQ, Geneva.

description:

In keeping together a programme with implementation in several countries (even if not large in terms of funding) it is important that due attention is given to structural issues, oversight and including management/leadership issues. Even though a programme is officially decentralised, it is here understood that the ultimate responsibilities for the implementation lie with the HQs. In the case of this programme, it makes a lot of sense as the implementation of the Global Component (a sub-component to the programme) is placed at Headquarters – even though the CTA for this component is responsible for the component only, not the whole programme. Working together, as with the UNJP-SP actors has been worthwhile and has added to cost-efficiency and should be encouraged – even though this raises some difficulties in assessing and attributing achievements to the specific activities of the programme under evaluation.

administrative_issues:

n/a

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/250750

---

location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

---

eval_title:

Inclusive Growth, Social Protection and Jobs Programme: An ILO-IRISH-Aid Partnership Programme 2016-2021 - Midterm evaluation