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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:

Programme sustainability

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action_plan:

Regarding the first part of the recommendations on decision-making on grants, this point has been already responded to above. Regarding the recommendation to supply more background information on impact evaluation to potential grantees in the form of an “Operations Manual”, this has been completed but in a different form. In fact one of the final products, as noted in the section of the project evaluation report on good practices, was the “Guide to Measuring Decent Jobs for Youth”, which contains much of the information as requested by the evaluator.

management_response:

Completed

progress:

Achieved

admin_units:

YEP

title:

7) Develop a grant management or operational handbook for the programme to orient CoP organizations, CSOs, government entities and others. Map out the process of issuing RFPs and decision-making on grants to ensure the process is widely known and transparent. Along with the process for issuing RFPs and selection of grants, include definition of terms for programme stakeholders to clarify what is meant by ‘Impact’, ‘Impact Evaluation’, ‘Performance Evaluation’, what is meant by ‘Job Creation’, ‘Innovation’/’Innovative’, ‘Quality’ and the difference between ‘Research’ and ‘Evaluation’. The Operational Manual is needed to orient and raise awareness of applicants to the different steps form proposal development to administrative policies & procedure, specific distribution of proposed budget items (indirect costs: direct costs), reporting systems for project progress, involvement in RCT studies, and others. Specifically, the operation manual could orient applicants to the necessary prerequisites to render RCTs feasible or appropriate (like the treatment and control group sample size), how to contextualize RCTs to the MENA region, apply RCTs in humanitarian & host-country settings, and the related contextual/social limitations like unethical concerns of randomization that need to be taken into consideration, the difficulty of isolating control groups to prevent contamination, and others. Prior knowledge and awareness to process and definition of terminologies would support applicants in designing more successful proposals and projects, would increase the applicants’ chances in developing winning proposals, and will reduce time consumed in assessing and modifying proposals (i.e., will increase Taqeem efficiency measures).

project_symbols:

GLO/14/24/IFA

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/13481

information_source:

Head Quarters

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