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FAIRWAY Program - Midterm evaluation

eval_number:

3439

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3439

location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

FAIRWAY Program - Midterm evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2023-02-23 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Planning and programme design

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action_plan:

The Office agrees with the recommendation for a longer-term programmatic approach. It notes that in the Africa region there is already a draft regional labour migration strategy. A similar strategy is presently being developed in the ILO Regional Office for Arab States. It is also important to note that constituents together with the Office determine ILO priorities via a formal Programme and Budget process, which constitute an overarching framework. At the same time, as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, crisis or other circumstances can lead to changes in priorities for the Office, requiring flexibility. This was exemplified when FAIRWAY funds were reoriented, with donor collaboration, to support migrant workers affected by the COVID crisis in the return and reintegration process.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

MIGRANT

title:

 Building a programmatic approach within the ILO. Within the Arab States, there has been considerable positive collaboration between the phased FAIRWAY and Work in Freedom projects, similarly in East Africa, for instance, between FAIRWAY and the Better Regional Migration Management (BRMM) Project, THAMM in North Africa, and SAMM in Southern Africa. For the future it is recommended that the ILO consider developing more holistic overarching 10-15 years migration programme frameworks, with a programmatic theory of change. This goes beyond the current two year ILO programme and budget system. There are different ways this can be undertaken, but the main point is to ensure ILO projects are better aligned, build on cumulative experience across projects, and are fully aligned in a programmatic sense. This is extremely important for the inter-regional dimensions of the work, as already outlined, since it involves multiple personnel and teams across the ILO, and an array of complex relationships externally. Such a programmatic framework we would recommend is undertaken before the next phase of FAIRWAY is fully designed, or as part of the design process, so that it provides a reference for a potential follow-on phase of the FAIRWAY programme. Ensuring that FAIRWAY is part of a wider programme framework will also help with future match funding requirements, as it will clarify linkages with other ILO migration projects and provide an overarching ToC to which they are all contributing.

project_symbols:

GLO/19/06/CHE

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/16680

information_source:

Regional Office

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