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Strengthening gender monitoring and evaluation in rural employment in the Near East and North Africa - Final evaluation

eval_number:

2448

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2448

location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

Strengthening gender monitoring and evaluation in rural employment in the Near East and North Africa - Final evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2020-07-21 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Results-based management

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action_plan:

The grants procedure was fully in-line with ILO financial rules and specifically the ILO office procedure number 430 on “Grants”. However this recommendation will be submitted to ILO FINANCE for consideration. It should be noted that in the opinion of management of this project, the recommendations on grant selection do not seem to contradict any of ILO financial rules regarding grants.

management_response:

Rejected

progress:

No implementation

admin_units:

YEP

title:

6) Develop a more credible and standardized grants management process. As discussed above, ILO projects benefiting from an ILO administered fund presents problems for transparency and ethics. One option would be to not involve ILO programming at all in Taqeem. Another option would be to establish a full external review system for all phases of the screening and selection process. To develop greater validity for the external review process of assessing full proposals, consider the following: two different assessors (not connected to each other) should evaluate the same proposal. Each assessor should assign a grade as percentage for each selection criteria; selection criteria can be weighted as per donor priorities, thematic focus and also to mitigate assessor bias. The project team can then compare the two scores to detect variance between the two assessors; if more than 10-15 percent variance occurs, the same proposal can be assessed by a third assessor for quality control, validation, and to mitigate assessors’ bias. Pay the external assessors; one would question the quality of assessment and produced work when done on a pro bono basis.

project_symbols:

GLO/14/24/IFA

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/13480

information_source:

Head Quarters

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