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Extending Social Protection to Herders with Enhanced Shock Responsiveness in Mongolia - Joint final evaluation

eval_number:

3474

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3474

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Programme implementation

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

Herders are main target of UNJP. These lessons learnt are targets PUNOs and other government and non-governmental partners.

challenges:

UNJP had several focal points at the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection in line with their respective activities which in turn the policy was not tied at the national level. As results, the social protection component (social and health insurance coverage of herders) was not linked with shock responsiveness (supporting entrepreneurship skills, provision of pedigree animals for better productivity) component. The beneficiaries of the income generation projects, and tangible support recipients, should have been covered by the social and health insurance.

success:

The success appeared at the local level within the component lead by ILO, the facilitation of the local partnership for advocating and promoting the benefits of social and health insurance. The local counterparts as representatives of Lifelong Education Center, Trade Union, Pastureland Users’ Groups, social insurance officer worked as a team to promote the benefits of social and health insurance. They went the door to door to herders’ households and have provided advice to the herders on case-by-case basis about the existing policy of the social and health insurance. As to the partners’ interviews, working as team, they have complemented each other in promoting the benefits. It provided an opportunity for local contracted organizations to exchange experience, and opened a door to partner for any other activities at the local level as a team.

context:

UNJP implementation years overlapped with pandemic restriction period. Due to the imposed restrictions on travel, when UNJP started the PUNOs did not have the chance to visit all piloting locations, and introduce the local partner institutions to each other, to organize all stakeholders’ joint meeting and explain the cooperation opportunities. Secondly it is first joint project of UN agencies in Mongolia, and PUNOs in Mongolia were not experienced in implementing joint projects. Each PUNO worked in its mandate area, but failed very much in seeking to tie the UNJP interventions with each other. UNJP made different contracts with partnering social institutions for respective component implementation.

description:

PUNOs tend to operate as individual agencies rather than one entity, however, each PUNO brings its unique expertise to achieve the relevant JP objectives successfully. The partners (national, local government, social partners, beneficiaries) were not informed of the other components of UNJP and were only aware of the components that they were involved. However, within the “herders’ social and insurance coverage” component, the local partnership applied successfully to UNJP, the local contracted institutions teamed up to conduct an advocacy for herders about benefits of the social insurance. It contributed immensely for the partnership building at the soum level.

administrative_issues:

N/A

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/252474

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location:

country:

Mongolia

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Extending Social Protection to Herders with Enhanced Shock Responsiveness in Mongolia - Joint final evaluation