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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:
- Results-based management
- category:
- Organizational issues
- comments:
- ONE UN programme designers
- challenges:
- This level of sharing of the budget made contracting difficult as it is not efficient to have a consultancy split into two or three individual contracts. It also increased delays as each agency has to go through different bureaucratic processes to authorise the expenditure. Simplifying the budget lines for individual activities under just one of the agencies has helped reduced administrative delays.
- success:
- The programme went through a budget realignment in December 2021 to address this concern. This simplified the process for certain activities, such as the funding for the academic institutions in the SALAM network. Moving budget under one agency’s control does not necessarily mean the other agencies lose control of that activity. For example, IOM and UN Women gave significant input into the design and management of this evaluation, but the contracts with the evaluation team were managed through ILO.
- context:
- The initial budget was quite complicated with more than one agency having a proportion of an individual budget line.
- description:
- Ensuring individual budget lines are limited to one PUNO as much as possible can reduce delays from administrative processes.
- administrative_issues:
- The main resource implication is that moving budget from one agencies control to another impacts the administrative overhead allocated on a percentage basis to an agency. If the total budget they hold goes down, then the percentage administrative overhead will also reduce. However, this should be manageable by designing a budget is way where each agency controls an agreed percentage of the budget, but the budget is designed in a way where individual budget lines are not split between agencies.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/254450
- 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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