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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:

Planning and programme design

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action_plan:

Develop a doable strategic business sustainability plan for the PTK coopertaive and build the capaciites of relevant groups to execute the plan .

management_response:

Completed

progress:

Achieved

admin_units:

CO-Colombo

title:

Building Sustainability dimensions at inception and implementation of the Project at all levels: Careful design elements that allow measures to attain and build sustainability in a cost effective manner are key to good programming. Sustainability is seldom built overnight or in short measures, the need to better understand interventions that are key to ensure the long term sustainability of programmes and projects once donor support is phased out remain critical for all stakeholders concerned at all levels. The project must work to design and build sustainability from inception of the program, at different levels. Institutional sustainability measures included multiple efforts by the ILO with the PTK to build a sustainability plan that was in alignment with the PTK mission, and the region given its high levels of poverty and low levels of equality and labour participation rates. However, despite these efforts, the PTK failed to show interest in developing a solid sustainability plan. The Government functionaries, and Divisional Heads were of the opinion, that the political agenda of the PTK leadership led to the failure of the PTK recognizing that this was an important element in project management in the long run. Important to note that the ILO team was able to build sustainability measures at project level, through the private sector led partnership with Hayley’s Agro, who had identified farmers from the PTK Women’s Cooperative and engaged them with an agreement and further the potential of working with at least 1000 farmers by 2020. Both long and short term measures are required to build sustainability, given the nature of the post conflict zone. Organizational and institutional sustainability were also linked to capacity building measures of the PTK itself, and were difficult to build at various levels. Another example was the inability to build financial management capacity of the administrative staff of the PTK Office, given the high staff turnover.

project_symbols:

LKA/17/03/UND

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/14221

information_source:

Country Office

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