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Improved Business Development Support Services and Entrepreneurship Education Targeting MSMEs and Youth for the Creation of Decent Work Opportunities in Iraq - Final evaluation

eval_number:

3477

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3477

location:

country:

Iraq

region:

Arab States

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eval_title:

Improved Business Development Support Services and Entrepreneurship Education Targeting MSMEs and Youth for the Creation of Decent Work Opportunities in Iraq - Final evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2022-11-07 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Enterprises

category:

Public-private partnerships

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action_plan:

The ILO will enforce the criteria to be used by all partner organizations for identifying and selection of appropriate end/direct beneficiaries of SYB, IYB and FE programmes. The beneficiairies criteria include: level of literacy, attitude, level of commitment to allocate time and effort towards the training, etc. ROAS management and the regional Enterprise project will monitor the enforcement of this criteria within ongoing projects. The ILO will also make sure that partner organizations have interview checklists and are devoting time and effort to have interview with each potential end beneficiary before approving the screened beneficiaries.

management_response:

Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

RO-Arab States/DWT-Beirut

title:

organizations for the SYB, IYB and FE programmes It was found that some participants of the IYB course were illiterates and had difficulties to understand the topics well, while such participants should join other ILO relevant training programmes that are specifically addressed to illiterates. For others who lack the basic mathematical skills or have difficulties to understand the topics when provided through lecturing, it would be more beneficial for entrepreneurs to reduce lecturing and increase the activities of the training that are based on action-learning method. The selection of end beneficiaries for the financial education training should not include people who are not able to meet their basic needs. A more careful selection of the end beneficiaries would require well defined criteria and appropriate time to be devoted to the interview. In the selection of the end beneficiaries, the interviewer should be aware that entrepreneurs’ incentive to participate in the training could be to only receive cash assistance, and not to start or improve a business. This has to be clearly explained to the trainees in order to avoid confusion and frustration.

project_symbols:

IRQ/19/03/DEU

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/16229

information_source:

Country Office

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