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Formalizing Access to the Legal Labour Market for Refugees and Host Communities in Jordan, Phase II - Final evaluation

eval_number:

3015

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3015

location:

country:

Jordan

region:

Arab States

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eval_title:

Formalizing Access to the Legal Labour Market for Refugees and Host Communities in Jordan, Phase II - Final evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2022-06-17 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Programme sustainability

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comments:

Sustainability is not a decision, it is a process. The ILO has built strong relations with main partners and stakeholders to collaborate with and capacitate their staff and institutional structures to deliver key results and targets, especially when they are considered the only authorized body to carry out activities related to the project. Nonetheless, the project team will properly follow up with implementing partners, prior to agreement signing on the importance of steering away from covering the full cost of indirect cost (unsustainable expenses).

action_plan:

The ILO has considered this limitation in its upcoming proposal to PRM and proposed implementing a sustainability driven, cost effective model for the implementation of employment, skills development and work permits services which will address minimizing the financing of unsustainable activities. The ILO's Programme of Support operates a network of 13 Employment Service Centres (ESCs) across Jordan since 2017. Over the years, the centres have succeeded in expanding the provision of employment services to Syrian refugees and vulnerable Jordanians by offering a physical place where jobseekers can meet counsellors face to-face to seek employment and training advice, job matching services and career guidance. The uniqueness of the ILO-PRM partnership is that it encompasses all key areas of support needed to help beneficiaries transition into formal employment and livelihoods from skills development to work permits. the ILO, through phase IV, will expand the scope of ESCs so that they serve as a hub for delivering the different aspects incorporated under the project so that target beneficiaries have access to more holistic and comprehensive services, including career counselling, RPL, referral to skills development and WBL, and work permits. In tandem, the ILO is working closely with different national stakeholders to ensure the sustainability of ESCs and their institutionalization so it can gradually phase out its support. In addition, the project proposal focused on the importance of setting up a sustainable and scalable interventions to support women-owned businesses from the previous phases of the project. As such efforts will be geared towards transferring and institutionalizing ILO tools and training programmes under outcome two by building the capacity of eligible national partners and investing in digital training solutions. The approach is meant to ensure the sustainability and replicability of training to beneficiaries.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

RO-Arab States/DWT-Beirut

title:

3. Taking into account the context of humanitarian response, minimize the financing of unsustainable activities under future projects as much as possible Project management is recommended to limit the use project funds to finance unsustainable expenses such as salaries of full time employees, recurring rents, and recurring operating costs (such as electricity bills), since such activities take away from the sustainability of results achieved by the project. Instead, sustainable features should be integrated into the spending avenues of the project. In other words, project spending should be geared towards sustainable results. While there is a difficulty in achieving sustainable results in humanitarian response contexts, the project should as much as possible strive to limit the financing of unsustainable activities.

project_symbols:

JOR/19/05/USA

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/15818

information_source:

Country Office

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