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Shan State: Peace reconciliation and development through community empowerment - Final evaluation

eval_number:

2377

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2377

location:

country:

Myanmar

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Shan State: Peace reconciliation and development through community empowerment - Final evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2020-07-22 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Organizational coordination

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comments:

The consortium members are many as the geographic areas of coverage for this project is vast. Different partners have been embedded themselves in each of the location and gain trust and respect from the communities they have been working for prior to the project. This is proven to be difficult for the ILO to come in to give advice, except on technical areas that of ILO expertise.

action_plan:

The regular PAC meeting was held, and designed to be the platform to share information among partners and plan works together. Communication in Myanmar society is a major problem, as the society was with extreme impunity and seriously lack of rule of law application for decades. This resulted into people are largely skeptical toward one another, and to volunteer information and share views are not part of their DNA. It took time and extra efforts made by the ILO to finally made the PAC to be the forum that partners shared information real time on conflict situation on the ground. This is the major step forward that the project brought about good impact. However, it is believe that it takes longer time than project's duration to finally get the partner agencies to work well as ONE team. But investing on PAC is the way to go and the project has achieved that goal. R.2.1 At the outset of the programme, consortium members developed MEAL plan together and Meal Plan has become part of the signed agreement between the ILO and the consortium partners. Originally PAC was planned for taking place once a year and as and when needed, but to increase the clear communication, the frequency of PAC meetings were changed to every month in the final year. R.2.2 With an exception to the ILO, partners' staff turnover is rather high as the areas of intervention is remote and difficult.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

ILO-Yangon

title:

Recommendation 2 (from conclusion 2 and 3) proposes to ILO and PAC members to improve communication and coordination among all organizations, (with a clear common understanding of roles and responsibilities, expectations and procedures), responsive management, budget allocation, knowledge transfer and regular updates. Priority: High / Importance: High  R.2.1. Formalize roles and responsibilities of each PAC members and clearly communicate expectations. A programme charter formally signed by all members would be instrumental.  R.2.2. Provide responsive management in all organizations, ensure all key procedures serving the programme are well understood by the staff and make sure robust knowledge transfer is conducted for smooth programme implementation (in case of turnover).  R.2.3. Provide regular updates at all levels of implementation.

project_symbols:

MMR/14/01/EEC

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/13821

information_source:

Country Office

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