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Governance of Labour Migration in South Asia (GOALS) - Midterm joint evaluation
- eval_number:
- 3476
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3476
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Programme implementation
- category:
- Organizational issues
- comments:
- Designers of regional programmes which have significant implementation at the national level.
- challenges:
- Funding for national level positions does not correspond to the outputs expected. As such, the programme relies on the leveraging of other resources from the three PUNOs’ country offices. It was understood that part of the reason for this was a desire from the donor to enhance the synergies between various initiatives being implemented in the region. This has been effective to an extent, but this approach does rely on national staff linked to other programmes being able to find time to support and implement activities, which may not be a priority when other programmes have deadlines for implementation.
- success:
- The programme has built developed strong synergies with other national and regional programmes, which has helped reduce replication. The lack of funding for national level positions has made identifying the synergies more important. It is important to identify a good balance between ensuring adequate funding but ensuring the programme continues to coordinate with other programmes and work collaboratively to them.
- context:
- One of the key findings of the evaluation of IOM’s previous programme supporting the Colombo Process was that there was insufficient attention paid to ensuring regional initiatives could be operationalised at the national level. GOALS has avoided this by ensuring Outcome 2 has significant work at the national level.
- description:
- Ensuring sufficient funding for national level positions is important to maximise the benefits of the elevator approach in a regional programme such as GOALS.
- administrative_issues:
- Budgets will need to balanced accordingly to ensure funding for these positions can be included in project design.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/254445
- location:
- country:
- Asia and the Pacific - regional
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- eval_title:
- Governance of Labour Migration in South Asia (GOALS) - Midterm joint evaluation
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