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Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) Phase IV - Global

eval_number:

1085681

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/1085681

location:

country:

Global

region:

Global

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country:

Tunisia

region:

Africa

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eval_title:

Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) Phase IV - Global

recommendations:

date:

2024-07-03 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Employment

category:

Training

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action_plan:

Completed

management_response:

Completed

progress:

Achieved

admin_units:

SME

title:

12. The SCORE team in Tunisia and the SME unit at ILO HQ are recommended to develop a policy to ensure that SCORE training and TA is offered in Tunisia against market prices (which may include variances in pricing for different client-groups). This is of particular relevance because the Tunisian Government has its own subsidy arrangements in place that allow SMEs to apply for 70% subsidy of their training and TA needs. The SCORE services are eligible for these subsidy arrangements. While additional efforts in facilitating the SMEs, while taking SCORE services, to apply for these subsidies, the SCORE project itself should avoid subsidizing SCORE training, as this weakens ownership of SMEs and sustainability perspectives of the project. In this light, the project-contract of ILO with GiZ to offer SCORE training and TA to 100 companies without payment, is contradictory to the SCORE approach. The SCORE team and the SME unit at HQ are recommended to discuss with GiZ if it is possible to revise payment arrangements in this project to strengthen ownership of local SMEs and to align it better with the existing subsidy arrangements of the Tunisian Government for the SME sector.

project_symbols:

GLO/21/60/MUL

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/1104173

information_source:

Country Office

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