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Improving labour market data sources in Myanmar through support to the National Labour Force and School-to-Work Transition Survey - Final Evaluation

eval_number:

2525

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2525

good_practices:

replication:

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cause_effect:

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themes:

theme:

Data collection & analysis

category:

Organizational issues

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context:

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description:

In a country with no labour force survey for 25 years, national commitment supported by technical assistance from external development partner can deliver a new survey. This requires lot of perseverance and mutual trust among the stakeholders. Myanmar achieved this largely due to commitment by current MOLES Permanent Secretary who concurrently holds the Director General position of the Department of Labour. His commitment precipitated through the system and resulted in other senior and junior staff alike to remain fully committed to completing the survey. Although the Project did not get a CTA for nearly 8 months, the Government and ILO continued engaged through dialogue and meetings. While the service agreement between ILO Liaison Office Yangon signed the service agreement with MOLES after 18 months of project approval, MOLES and DOL continued to collaborate with ILO team in Nay Pyi Taw. The difficulties that arose in implementation arrangement due to a combination of communication gap between CSO and MOLES. Finally, MOLES sorted out with an agreement that MOLES would mobilize DOL staff to complete the LFS-CL-STWT survey and CSO would undertake data entry job. DOL handled funds for service contract prudently. The project completed survey and data entry, provided training to staff from MOLES, Ministry of Education, DOP, CSO, and Department of Science and Technology at different stages of project implementation. The TWG Committee met seven times and supported project activities.

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indicators:

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url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/practices/219570

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location:

country:

Myanmar

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Improving labour market data sources in Myanmar through support to the National Labour Force and School-to-Work Transition Survey - Final Evaluation