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SKILL-UP Global (Upgrading Skills for the changing world of work) - Final Evaluation
- eval_number:
- 2934
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2934
- good_practices:
- replication:
- -
- cause_effect:
- .
- themes:
- theme:
- Skills development
- category:
- Employment
- context:
- -
- description:
- As part of the SKILL-UP programme, a Skills Innovation Facility was launched, consisting of three
elements:
1. “Skills Challenge Innovation Call”, to identify innovative ideas,
2. “Skills Innovation Lab”, to strengthen the winning idea further, with a view to upscale,
and
3. “Skills Innovation Connection Network”, which is used to connect the innovators behind
short-listed ideas.
These elements together worked towards four goals set for the pilot phase: “1. Sourcing ideas
and early-stage solutions that are untested within the ILO; 2. Developing new solutions to
entrenched challenges, in partnership with actors in the ecosystem; 3. Sharing solutions and
ideas across the organisation, especially by country offices, including existing solutions that can
be replicated in other places; 4. Strengthening the culture of innovation within the ILO Skills
branch, and where possible, the wider ILO.” (Dalberg 2020) These goals are relevant not least in
terms of the recommendation of the “Independent evaluation of the ILO’s strategy and actions
for skills development for jobs and growth: 2010–2015” to “encourage innovation by allocating
funds for new models”.
The SKILL-UP programme evaluation found that the facility in its entirety, and the call in
particular, are considered a great success by the interviewees. There is pride in what has been
achieved: concerning the numerous entries to the call, the attention received within the ILO and
beyond, and the fact the call has been replicated in Cambodia, with other regional offices also
showing interest. It should be noted that the evaluation team was not able to observe how the
facility changed innovation culture within the SKILLS branch as a long-term objective. Dalberg,
which has accompanied the process, confirms the achievements, and has several suggestions
how to strengthen the facility further (Dalberg 2020).
- links:
- -
- indicators:
- -
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/practices/239869
- location:
- country:
- Inter-Regional
- region:
- Inter-Regional
- eval_title:
- SKILL-UP Global (Upgrading Skills for the changing world of work) - Final Evaluation
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