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Better Factories Cambodia, Better Work Indonesia, and Better Work Vietnam Programmes - Midterm cluster evaluation

eval_number:

3189

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3189

location:

country:

Viet Nam

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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country:

Indonesia

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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country:

Cambodia

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Better Factories Cambodia, Better Work Indonesia, and Better Work Vietnam Programmes - Midterm cluster evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2021-07-16 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Monitoring and evaluation

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action_plan:

"Better Work has always been committed to measuring success, progress towards objectives, and long-term impact using a rigorous approach. Since its establishment, the programme has relied on robust monitoring and evaluation indicators, and on academic partnerships to independently evaluate its impact on workers and enterprises. The new strategy pushes the programme to think beyond progress and impact at the workplace and challenges Better Work to increase its focus on contributing to strengthening institutions at the national and global levels. Better Work will build on its experience in monitoring, evaluating and measuring impact while creating new approaches to partnership. The programme will remain committed to systematically collecting gender-disaggregated data in its work with other ILO and IFC units in order to foster gender equality, non-discrimination, and inclusion at the enterprise and policy levels. A robust framework of success will combine qualitative and quantitative indicators to accompany the new strategy. This will support the programme to measure progress in challenging areas such as to build stronger, more capable national institutions and governance echanisms that support garment factories in generating decent jobs and promoting innovation. Other measurement approaches will be needed to understand Better Work’s contributions to facilitate a more just transition to new technologies, addressing environmental and demographic trends, measuring the impact of knowledge and data to inform policy reforms, and understanding the impact of the programme’s indirect reach through partnerships."

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

BETTERWORK

title:

The BFC, BWI, and BWV Programmes all took a pro-active and detailed approach to monitoring and evaluation at the inception of the current Phase of the Programme through the creation of a robust and detailed logical framework. Subsequent Programme revisions, including the changes made to reflect the impact of COVID-19, updated those logical frameworks including the identified indicators. However, whilst this works well for measuring progress on activity and output it is less effective on measuring outcomes and impact. Whilst the use of external, impact assessments contribute to a greater understanding of the impact of each Programme, there is scope for a more coordinated, pan-Programmatic approach to measuring and understanding impact.  Through a maturing Results-Based Management (RBM) system the three Programme Teams in conjunction with M&E expertise at ILO Regional and Headquarter level, to formalise the currently informal approach on measuring the outcomes of programme activities. This includes not only programme activity at the factory level but encompasses all activities including at the macro policy level. This requires a standardised and regular reporting mechanism to be established which clearly defines what outcome is expected from each activity, (re)visits outputs periodically to gather information on any outcome achieved and evaluates the reasons behind successful and unsuccessful activities. A mechanism on how to engage across the Programmes when measuring impact should also be developed with the aim of providing as uniform a methodology as possible for all three Programmes using the recent impact assessments from the three Programmes as a catalyst for this work.

project_symbols:

CMB/12/53/USA

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/15148

information_source:

Head Quarters

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