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Project to Strengthen agricultural opportunities through training and technological investment (PROFIT) - Midterm evaluation

eval_number:

3537

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3537

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Tripartism & constituent partnerships

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

• The organized structures of civil society in the department of Grande-Anse capable of designating one of their members, capable of validly representing the trade unions in the steering committee for better ownership. • The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Grande-Anse.

challenges:

• The organized structures of civil society in the department of Grande-Anse capable of designating one of their members, capable of validly representing the trade unions in the steering committee for better ownership. • The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Grande-Anse. The situation of the project action areas is exceptional compared to the realities of the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince. The interests and motivations for entities from diverse backgrounds to work together on structuring and transgenerational subjects necessarily require a better understanding of the state of the relationships between the different categories of actors, and the best formula to recommend so that actors traditionally hyper-influential do not knowingly steer the process towards a status quo scenario.

success:

The integration of influential departmental actors in strategic exchanges can facilitate better communication, articulation, and commitment to the project. It is one of the discriminating levers for the appropriation of change processes.

context:

ILO interventions focus on the need for cooperation between governments, employers' organizations, and workers' organizations to promote economic and social progress. The dialogue between the governments and the two "social partners " aims, under normal conditions, to establish a consensus and to involve in a democratic and inclusive manner those who have vital interests in the world of work... Thus, the mechanism established for the strategic management of the project is structured (cf.: Institutional Steering Committee) according to this philosophy (Tripartism and social dialogue). At this level, periodic work sessions, and if necessary, ad-hoc meetings took place to calmly discuss: i) progress, ii) bottlenecks and, iii) elements of strategy, to anticipate or to co-construct ad hoc responses to situational challenges. On the other hand, at the field level, although the links between the project and the institutions are generally cordial, the evaluation considers that at the departmental level, there has not really been an interface capable of promoting and strengthening synergy between the actors. Institutional links were rather built on a case-by-case basis. Although the project continues to deliver in the pain of the context, the absence of this plural medium of consultation, between the beneficiary municipalities, could constitute an ambush and reduce appropriation. According to the testimonies of certain institutional actors consulted at the level of the department of Grand-Anse, the fact of integrating into the CoPIL representatives of labor unions based in Port-au-Prince and, who do not master - in practice - real field concerns sometimes constitute an obstacle to the progress of certain activities in the project.

description:

ADAPTATION AND STRENGTHENING OF LOCAL FACILITATION STRUCTURES AND THE STEERING COMMITTEE.The central mechanism established for the strategic management of the project (cf.: Institutional Steering Committee) is structured considering the logic of “tripartism social dialogue”; however, at the field level, although relations with the institutions are generally cordial, the evaluation reveals, at the departmental level (between the influential actors and stakeholders of the beneficiary municipalities), a certain lack of synergy.

administrative_issues:

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url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/251202

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location:

country:

Haiti

region:

Americas

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eval_title:

Project to Strengthen agricultural opportunities through training and technological investment (PROFIT) - Midterm evaluation