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The ILO and PBSO programme to sustain peace and foster development through employment creation in conflict-affected situations - Final evaluation

eval_number:

2879

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2879

location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

The ILO and PBSO programme to sustain peace and foster development through employment creation in conflict-affected situations - Final evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2023-07-04 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Policy coherence

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action_plan:

New AP as mentioned above was put in place but strategy still under development - Negotiations are ongoing with Switzerland to see possibility of new ILO's secondment at the PBSO and a phase 3 of the programme based on the evaluation's recommendations. Mobilise resources for an extension of the Swiss programmme and secondment at the ILO An action plan was developed and submitted to the AP on crisis

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

DEVINVEST

title:

RECOMMENDATION 4. ILO and PBSO should take measures to ensure organisation-wide coherence in and mainstream its institutional architecture for integrating peace and social cohesion. ILO should fully embrace the importance and strategic opportunity of Rec. 205 and move to better operationalise it closer to its core conventions. As funding for the ILO/PBSO programme is running out and a new ILO Programme and Budget proposal is underway, ILO should reflect the priority and importance of Rec. 205 and the need for a strengthened CSPR unit with the necessary resources to undertake the organisational and behavioural change needed for successfully mainstreaming the employment and decent work for peace agenda. 55 It will be key for ILO to create a clear matrix of responsibility throughout the organisation to facilitate the mainstreaming and coordination of peacebuilding and conflict-sensitivity issues across thematic clusters. It should promote accountability, synergies and cross-fertilization with different teams and clusters at country, regional and global levels for effective mainstreaming of the employment and decent work for peace agenda. The organisational location of the CSPR unit might be considered and moved to better reflect the basic principle and importance of promoting sustainable peace across various sectors. As mentioned in the limitations, PBSO do not seem to have taken as active an role in the project as ILO. This resulted in a lack of PBSO staff available for interviews and casts doubts on the degree on integration of employment dimensions and its sustainability into PBSO operations. PBSO staff interviewed highlighted the dependency on staff secondments in order to strengthen PBSO capacities in the field of EDW4P (see also recommendation 5 below).

project_symbols:

GLO/18/04/CHE

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/16771

information_source:

Head Quarters

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