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

eval_number:

3164

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3164

location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

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

recommendations:

date:

2022-03-16 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Programme sustainability

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action_plan:

ILO allocated its regular budget and personnel to support the graduated countries from the SCORE Programme, beyond the donor funding. As per the donor agreement, it might be challenging to provide additional donor funding outside of the Phase IV project target countries. The SCORE Programme has conducted feasibility studies at the beginning of the intervention in new implementation countries. This practice would continue as per the final evaluation recommendation. The Programme has already indicated the leading agency in three countries (Tunisia, Bolivia, and Ethiopia). In Myanmar, it is not part of the project implementation strategy due to the current political unrest. It will adopt the private sector/market driven strategy to achieve the sustainability of SCORE Training after 2024. In most SCORE implementation countries, the SCORE Programme is no longer involved in selecting the target enterprises and it provides limited subsidy to implementation partners to deliver SCORE Training. Rather, enterprises are recruited to participate in SCORE Training by implementation partners. The SCORE Programme would share the recommendation from the evaluation, but each implementation partner will make their own decisions.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

SME

title:

Recommendation 4 (from conclusions 1 and 5) proposes to ILO and donors to provide beneficiary countries with further additional support during 3-5 years in order not to lose momentum and achieve sustainable results. The project duration and budget should be defined based on a robust feasibility study.  R.4.1. Consider first fully monitoring and achieving technical, institutional and financial sustainability in beneficiary countries before extending the programme to other countries.  R.4.2. Conduct feasibility studies to select countries (for continuation) that display a “fertile” environment for sustainable change.  R.4.3. Select early in Phase IV a lead agency to coordinate the work of implementing partners and NTAC for each SCORE country Programme.  R.4.4. Based on feasibility studies and needs assessments, extend relevant interventions in countries (including those not initially planned to be covered in Phase IV).  R.4.5. Explore ways to gauge the commitment and the absorptive capacity of enterprises before providing substantial services whether these services are provided free-of-charge or not. While companies may be willing to pay for modules, this does not mean that they have the necessary prerequisites in place. Given limited resources, the SCORE program should devote effort to firms that have the best chance of benefitting from its services. (Same recommendation as in SCORE Ghana impact assessment, 2016)

project_symbols:

GLO/17/54/MUL

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/15699

information_source:

Head Quarters

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