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Sustainable supply chains to build forward better: Decent work in five global supply chains of key importance to the European Union for a fair, resilient, and sustainable COVID-19...- Final evaluation

eval_number:

3450

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3450

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Planning and programme design

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

ILO officers and Tri-partite partners at the national and sector level and international actors in the EU and global supply chains

challenges:

Research on supply is time consuming and is quickly outdated. Therefore quick and flexible processes and procedures are needed to ensure that research findings are up-to-date and usable

success:

Quick contracting and rapid implementation mitigate delays in research findings

context:

International developments rapidly chain and have significant effects on international supply chains

description:

The design, preparation and sourcing of sectoral research is time-consuming and this presents a clear risk in situations where conditions in supply rapidly change, sometimes in less than two years that it took to finalize these research projects. This can be illustrated by the field visit to Malaysia, that showed that the rubber glove boom in 2021 and 2022, at the end of 2022 is rapidly changing into a steep decline of demand, now the COVID-19 crisis is over. The deep-dive and rapid assessment reports of SSCBFBF therefore are easily and quickly outdated. A quicker and more flexible approach to produce these supply chain research reports is needed to ensure that they can feed into policy development and development of new up-to-date interventions in the respective sectors;

administrative_issues:

Staff is needed and resources help quick implementation. Also quick administrative procedures (contracting) are helpful to increase speed of implementation

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/255281

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location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

Sustainable supply chains to build forward better: Decent work in five global supply chains of key importance to the European Union for a fair, resilient, and sustainable COVID-19...- Final evaluation