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STRENGTHEN 2: Employment impact assessment to maximise job creation in Africa - Midterm evaluation

eval_number:

3286

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3286

location:

country:

Africa - regional

region:

Africa

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country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

STRENGTHEN 2: Employment impact assessment to maximise job creation in Africa - Midterm evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2023-06-05 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Programme implementation

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comments:

At the time when the MTE collected information, country work had just started, therefore there were only limited capacity development activities. At the time of the MTE’s conclusion, there is a good engagement with 7 of the 8 countries in focus, where both assessments and trainings are being conducted. In addition, further assessments and trainings are planned for the remainder of the project, including an extension of several months. This should provide ample time to make several of them success stories of engagement. EC and ILO are in agreement that reducing the number of countries significantly at this point does not seem justified.

action_plan:

At the time when the MTE recommendations have been received, activities in 8 countries are ongoing with promising results, which will be pursued. More and updated data will be generated by updating the SAMs in 3 countries. Capacity building will be reinforced with the addition of 12 trainings (general and specialized), with national stakeholders as participants. To implement the above frequent missions will take place. The value added of longer-term in-country presence of current S2 team members seems to offer limited value. For future projects, options with national officers will be considered. More engagement with all ILO constituents is planned as part of the further interactions at country level. Discussions are already being held with CO and DWT colleagues covering the S2 partner countries. Such efforts will be further stepped up.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

DEVINVEST

title:

Recommendation 3: Focus on few countries (e.g., three) and make S2 activities in these countries good examples (or even success stories).  Consider Malawi, Namibia, Senegal or Zambia as priority countries.  Generate more data on employment impact in the priority countries (outputs 2.1.b, 3.1, 3.2).  Accelerate capacity building in the priority countries (output 2.4) and advance institutionalization of EmpIA (output 3.3). The focus should be on national governments, public statistics bureaux and national research institutions (e.g. universities).  Engage more with all ILO constituents and the EUDs in the priority countries to strengthen awareness and ownership.  Clarify S2’s role in policy dialogue at the country level in particular also vis-à-vis other ILO actors engaged in employment policy dialogue.  Consider a temporary (e.g., several months) country presence of S2 team members in priority countries to enhance S2 effectiveness in terms of conducting in-depth EmpIAs, accelerating capacity building, advancing institutionalization and engaging with ILO constituents and the EUDs.

project_symbols:

GLO/20/19/EUR

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/17090

information_source:

Head Quarters

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