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Empower:Building peace through the economic empowerment of women in northern Sri Lanka - Final evaluation

eval_number:

2851

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2851

location:

country:

Sri Lanka

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Empower:Building peace through the economic empowerment of women in northern Sri Lanka - Final evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2021-07-15 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Resource management

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action_plan:

The country office will respond to funding opportunities in the future with the intention of developing this facility

management_response:

Completed

progress:

Achieved

admin_units:

CO-Colombo

title:

ILO must build its own financing facility: ILO to look into conceptualizing and establishing a long term financing facility for women’s empowerment in poverty stricken zones in Sri Lanka, with an agro centric focus through cooperatives. The EMPOWER project was built to respond to one root cause of conflict, “Lack of opportunity”. The team was able to conceptualize a particularly unique intervention with an agro centric cooperative. The cooperative model in the post conflict zone that was particularly vulnerable, with high poverty rates, low employment, low labour growth rates, was the perfect platform to build an intervention that would build and enable more effective outreach to communities. It not only enabled enhanced agricultural production, but also provides greater visibility, voice and negotiating power to ex combatant and marginalized women. It was the key element to ensure continuity, capacity building and improved contact between communities. The model was especially effective in supporting women’s empowerment because it enabled social aspects of women’s challenges and issues to be addressed. However, interventions of this kind in post conflict zones require long term measures especially when they are implemented in fragile states like Sri Lanka. This then leads to the importance and need for ILO TO EXPLORE ALTERNATE FUNDING MODALITIES with multiple donors, to build a multi donor trust fund for empowerment of women’s cooperatives and other operational modalities linked to jobs, skills and economic empowerment going forward. Senior Government officials spoke of a long term planning and programming need for the Northern Province and questioned short term financing modalities as being operationally viable.

project_symbols:

LKA/17/03/UND

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/14220

information_source:

Country Office

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