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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:

Monitoring and evaluation

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action_plan:

The project has already developed its results framework, indicators and M&E framework. As this stage of the project, it is not feasible to further implement this recommendation.

management_response:

Completed

progress:

Achieved

admin_units:

CO-Colombo

title:

Importance of designing monitoring processes and results frameworks that reflect the relevance of the Theory of Change outcome profiles: Despite excellent linkages and lessons learned in terms of design and implementation from the ILO LEEDS project and its various phases in Sri Lanka, the EMPOWER project did not adequately reflect good monitoring protocols or adequacy in terms of design elements of the Results Framework that was formulated downstream of the Theory of Change process to monitor and report on the EMPOWER project outcomes. Although the Theory of Change was broadly defined and linked to a single indicator in terms of the drivers of conflict namely that of “Lack of opportunities for employment of women”; the indicators downstream both in terms of effectiveness and coherence were not adequately linked to the overall outcome profiles of the project. Baselines were practically absent in the indicator profiles that had been formulated, and the project reflected the absence of clear monitoring and evaluation arrangements and meaningful indicators for reporting. Both monitoring activities of the development activities and process monitoring failed to capture the important elements of project success and potential achievement of results in the project overall. Teams must pay due diligence to the formulation of Results Framework protocols and ensure that they are linked adequately to the Theory of Change principles to allow for adequacy in Measuring, Monitoring and Reporting of Good Results in short term financing modalities that require careful planning measures to elicit good results. Additionally, neither the ILO not WFP teams had come to terms with the fact that the PBF was a short term financing modality which expected long term results and impact.

project_symbols:

LKA/17/03/UND

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/14222

information_source:

Country Office

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