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Job creation for Syrian refugees and Jordanian host communities through green works in agriculture and forestry - Final Evaluation

eval_number:

2911

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2911

location:

country:

Jordan

region:

Arab States

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eval_title:

Job creation for Syrian refugees and Jordanian host communities through green works in agriculture and forestry - Final Evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2019-07-02 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Planning and programme design

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comments:

In order to reach workers and farmers most in need, the second phase of the project developed vulnerability criteria. This reflects Persons with disabilities, local community (the closest living to the project site), Gender, monthly income, no of family members, and family monthly income Under the second phase of the project, site selection was refined using GPS coordinates, shared by organizations executing similar programming (ILO, GIZ). This need arose after it was discovered that similar infrastructure works were being constructed on the same sites. The second phase also included 3 new Governorates, including Zarqa in the middle, Madaba and Ma’an in the South of Jordan. A major weekness of the first phase, which was changed in the second phase, was the sequencing of infrastructure works, in order to ensure cisterns were constructed before the peak rain season (winter).

action_plan:

1. Integrate farms in the South in phase II (done) 2. Develop and apply vulnerability criteria for workers in phase II (done) 3. Hold workshop with MOA and other EIIP projects to review progress made and lessons learned from phase I and work done so far in phase II 4. Maintenance work for forest trees grown in the first phase was done in the second phase ( weeding, watering, irrigation system maintenance)

management_response:

Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

RO-Arab States/DWT-Beirut

title:

Refine project design and implementation arrangements, to gain greater clarity, effectiveness and sustainability Reforestation requires watering and site protection for two years to ensure establishment. The responsibility for this two year activity should be stated in the prodoc and specific inputs and responsibilities then assigned in the Implementation Agreement between ILO and MoA. Given the short active life of the project, it is only the implementing partners that are in a position to provide maintenance inputs. With the experience of the current project, project objectives should be more ambitious and secondary objectives such as facilitation of WPs should be made more specific with indicators assigned. Project targets which are to be achieved across different sites should (a) have site specific targets so each site appreciates its responsibility, and , establish a cloud-based system where achievements at each sites can be uploaded and aggregated in real time to monitor progress. Several of the development targets (percentage of women, refuges, and PWD) cannot be applied for activities which employ small groups and/or managed by non-partners (i.e. such as farmers contracting workers for cistern construction or the two partners of JBVs when they hire other workers). Such targets are feasible only where large numbers of workers are employed (i.e. reforestation). The assignment of indicators for these needs to take this into account if still expressed as an overall percentage of the target, or to be expressed as specific numbers for each activity. Work safety and use of PPE are not a high priority for most agricultural work. However, cistern construction with workers underground could face risk if walls collapsed in soft soils, or poor ventilation. This should be examined by ILO and a recommendation and means made available to contracting farmers.

project_symbols:

JOR/16/10/NOR

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/13431

information_source:

Country Office

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