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Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) programme, Phase III - Midterm evaluation

eval_number:

3163

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3163

location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) programme, Phase III - Midterm evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2020-04-24 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Monitoring and evaluation

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action_plan:

The SCORE Programme conducted the Peru Impact Assessment to mitigate such challenges, as raised by the mid-term evaluation. It will conduct impact assessments in selected countries at the end of Phase III, instead of the final evaluation to generate more impact-oriented M&E system, pending donor approval of the management response. (See also Colombia recommendation 4 and Indonesia recommendation 6). The SCORE Programme will continue to build capacity of implementation partners to monitor training outreach and quality, where applicable by incorporating the SCORE M&E database in their operations. However, the decision is to be made by each implementation partner.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

SME

title:

4. Take steps to develop a more ‘impact-oriented’ M&E system. Support IPs to assist their efforts to promote and maintain the quality of SCORE Training if/when ILO support ends. Undertake pilots in selected countries to identify and demonstrate the kind of outcome and impact-data that it is feasible to collect. Data should be collected on fewer indicators and a sub-set of countries, enterprises and impact pathways, to concentrate resources into generating more robust evidence on priority causal steps and assumptions. Beneficiary and intermediary beneficiary feedback should be included. Regular reflection and learning loops should be established. Final evaluation to be theory based, involve surveys of intermediate and ultimate beneficiaries and comparative case studies to test key causal steps and assumptions, use of ‘Most Significant Change’ and Contribution Analysis to assess the relative contribution of the programme. In order to help the final evaluation team assess impact (something particularly important if Phase III is the final phase), the MTE team recommends that the following be considered in the final evaluation methodology: a. Surveys of intermediate beneficiaries for a random sample of enterprises that entered the training at the same time, and to use recall techniques, b. Sets of comparative case studies can be conducted: Purposively selected cases should use the theory of change as a standardized conceptual and analytical framework. c. A Most Significant Change approach could be considered to capture, in the absence of more robust baselines, what the major changes achieved are according to intermediary beneficiaries (e.g. SME managers and owners) and intended beneficiaries and their representative organisations.

project_symbols:

NO_DC_SYMBOL_64

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/14251

information_source:

Head Quarters

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