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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:

Organizational issues

category:

Resource management

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action_plan:

The ILO will continue to advocate SIYB training courses are promoted and provided for young women and men who are in the need of the skills to start up and improve their businesses. The ILO will work more closely with MOLSA and KRI to insittutionalize the delievry of SIYB to ensure its sustainiblity. As such, the ILO will continue to lobby the KRG and federal government MoLSA to plan for and allocate the necessary budget from their own annual recurrent and capital budget as well as encourage VTCs to create strategic alliance with I/NGOs to mobilize funds and conduct regular SIYB, FE and KAB programmes.

management_response:

Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

RO-Arab States/DWT-Beirut

title:

Recommendation 5. Encourage MoLSA in KR-I to plan in its budget the allocation of funds for the delivery of the SIYB activities and advocate with the government on the introduction of a regulation that would allow MoLSA the collection of fees for training provided to trainers and end beneficiaries Usually, MoLSA looks for its funding of SIYB training courses on activity basis rather than on a yearly progamme basis. The implementation of SIYB courses depends on the existence of relevant projects funded by donors and implemented by I/NGOs or private consulting firms. MoLSA should plan the SIYB activities on a regular basis and include its cost as part of its annual/regular budget submitted to the government. In addition, the Vocational Training Centers should be encouraged to create strategic alliances with donors and I/NGOs operation in their areas to be able to fund and deliver SIYB interventions. MoLSA/VTCs have provided training on SIYB and KAB at the request of government agencies and I/NGOs without charging any fees on the services provided. The main reason is that all fees collected would be transferred to the Ministry of Finance without allowing MoLSA to use such money to fund its own activities. MoLSA and other government agencies should advocate with the government for changing the law and thus be allowed to charge fees on services provided and use the fees to finance its activities.

project_symbols:

IRQ/19/03/DEU

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/16232

information_source:

Country Office

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