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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:

Cambodia

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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country:

Indonesia

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:

Programme sustainability

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action_plan:

We are of the opinion that we don't need to change our sustainability framework, but that we need to do more to communicate better what we understand by sustainability. We need to communicate well how Better Work will evolve over time, from which parts of the programme we plan to exit and which ones we will continue in one form or the other. All these elements will be included in the sustainability roadmaps that will be completed at the country level, which will involve all the relevant stakeholder groups.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

BETTERWORK

title:

Given that all three Programmes have been running for at least a decade with at least two or more phases, theThe progress made toward the sustainability of Programme objectives has been slow if sustainability is defined as the withdrawal of ILO / BW Programme support. Whilst BW Global has revisited sustainability and provided more guidance and support to the country Programmes, and the Programmes themselves have improved cost recovery, some fundamental barriers across all Programmes still exist. There is a need for BW Global to focus its sustainability efforts on tackling those fundamental barriers identified within both this cluster evaluation and the BW Global mid-term evaluation.  ILO BW Programme including representatives from all BW Programmes, and appropriate regional and HQ management to (re)consider the BW Programme’s approach to sustainability. This should begin by ensuring the BW Global Sustainability Framework definition of sustainability is agreed, understood, and accepted by all partners and stakeholders to BFC, BWI, and BWV. The fundamental barriers to sustainability across all three Programmes should then be identified (this evaluation highlights four barriers) and strategies developed to tackle those barriers. This should include a realistic timeframe which may include some form of ILO / BW presence for another decade.  At a country Programme level each new phase of a BW Programme to contain i) an express, discrete sustainability strategy, ii) each capacity building activity and output to be examined through a sustainability lens, iii) create an advocacy strategy for sustainability tailored to each stakeholder group.

project_symbols:

CMB/12/53/USA

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/15149

information_source:

Head Quarters

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