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TRIANGLE in ASEAN: Safe and Fair Labour Migration - Midterm Cluster Evaluation

eval_number:

2519

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2519

location:

country:

Americas - regional

region:

Americas

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country:

Asia and the Pacific - regional

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

TRIANGLE in ASEAN: Safe and Fair Labour Migration - Midterm Cluster Evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2019-07-19 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Resource management

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comments:

Fully agree. As noted in the response to recommendation 6, a total of five positions were removed as a result of the approval of the restructuring proposal. With the exception of adjustments in areas of responsibility between team members at the regional office, no further changes are expected to the TRIANGLE team until the current phase of GAC ends in June 2020. The main uncertainty that needs to be addressed is plans beyond June 2020. While the ILO is hoping that GAC will support a third phase of the programme, no decisions will be made ahead of the October 2019 elections. DFAT has indicated that should no additional funding from GAC be available beyond June 2020, their priority would be to support regional activities and further reduce action at the national levels. The forward looking evaluation scheduled for second semester of 2019 aims to identify priorities for a new project document to be pitched to GAC or other interested donors.

action_plan:

Action undertaken in response to the recommendation: • The recruitment of the M&E officer took longer than anticipated, but the lack of dedicated M&E capacity has been mitigated by hiring of M&E expertise under an excol contract. The new M&E officer joined the programme as of 15 July 2019. • Further restructuring of regional and national staff beyond what is discussed in response to recommendation 6, will be considered as soon as there are further clarity on the issue of funding beyond the end of the current GAC funded project (June 2020). Further action to undertake: • In line with the GAC Grant Arrangement, TRIANGLE in ASEAN needs to undergo an external, final evaluation. The TORs for this exercise have been developed and are now waiting final approval from the two donors. Given that a comprehensive mid-term evaluation was completed by March 2019, the final evaluation will be more forward looking than a traditional final evaluation. The objective of this evaluation will be to guide TRIANGLE in ASEAN programme strategy for remaining five years of implementation. It will involve two parts: 1. Identify and document lessons learned and good practices from the programme’s initial years of implementation that should be prioritized going forward, and 2. Identify, prioritize and draft programme strategies for two future scenarios: a. GAC continues its support to the programme through a third phase or another donor steps in with a similar budget which allows spending to be maintained more or less at par with current levels for the 2020-2025 period; and b. a reduced programme with DFAT as the only donor for 2021-2025.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

RO-Asia and the Pacific

title:

Maintain as far as possible the current staff set-up at regional and national level but re-arrange the division of tasks as detailed in Table 4 and employ the M&E Technical Officer as soon as possible. In case the support of GAC or another donor is not forthcoming from 2020, DFAT’s priorities will be at the regional level! This would mean a restructuring of staff especially also at the national level, and at the same time the option in the Proposal for Restructuring to phase out (at least) one of the international positions should then be implemented as a pro-active measure whereby tasks should be redistributed accordingly.

project_symbols:

RAS/15/05/AUS

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/13494

information_source:

Regional Office

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