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Improving Indigenous peoples’ access to justice and development through community-based monitoring - Final evaluation

eval_number:

3526

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3526

location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

Improving Indigenous peoples’ access to justice and development through community-based monitoring - Final evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2023-02-20 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Programme implementation

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comments:

Should the ILO implement similar community-based projects in the future, the need to ensure that the project design and budget includes sufficient resources for field monitoring and mentoring. Likewise, this recommendation's focus on linking indigenous' peoples ways of life to sustainable development is well noted and relevant for future projects.

action_plan:

The recommendation has been shared with the current consortium partners of the Indigenous Navigator

management_response:

Completed

progress:

Achieved

admin_units:

GED

title:

2 Responsiveness to stakeholder needs The IN consortium’s adaptive collaborative management and “top-down, bottom-up, meeting-in-the-middle” approaches allowed the national and local partners flexibility to respond to the needs and aspirations of IPOs and communities, which enabled IPOs and communities to shape project implementation at the local level whilst linking with national and international institutions and frameworks. These were key enabling factors and need to be maintained and enhanced. In order to enhance responsiveness to stakeholder needs and the sense of local ownership, a number of actions should be taken by the IN consortium partners, including: From monitoring to mentoring: Field monitoring visits should be more frequent, longer in duration and timed to coincide with major activities at the national or local level, in order to give the consortium partners a better understanding of the needs and aspirations of the national and local partners and stakeholders. As one of the partners put it “We should be moving from monitoring visits to longer, sustained mentoring visits.” Shifting the paradigm from a Sustainability Pyramid to a Sustainability Compass: The IN partners should develop a “sustainability compass” or similar tools, to help each IP community to better identify and communicate what sustainable development means to them and to help develop and integrate indigenous indicators for wellness aspects. Such tools would improve the orientation and calibration of the approach to the needs and priorities of IPs, and would also help communities to reflect more deeply on the underlying ‘cultural logic’ which should inform their decision making. Such tools, when in use, will also help to highlight and promote understanding of ‘indigenous worldviews’ as a valid way of thinking about sustainability and development.

project_symbols:

GLO/16/24/EUR

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/16549

information_source:

Head Quarters

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