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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:

The project team and the EC do not see the regional dimension at the same level of importance as the global and national ones. Nevertheless, the actions outlined under “Action plan” will be taken.

action_plan:

- Conducting two more portfolio assessments, if data is made available by the EC. The focus is currently put on projects under the Global Gateway in 2023 and data gathering efforts are underway. Another portfolio assessment is planned for 2024. - A knowledge-sharing event, with stakeholders from sub-Saharan Africa, particularly the countries in focus of the project, but potentially also other stakeholders, is envisaged for 2024. - The project team also already engaged in further communication and visibility actions, particularly presenting S2 results and EmpIA at regional and global events. - A focus will be put on universities in the training activities – as part of the trainings for all stakeholders, but possibly also fully tailored to universities. - Collaboration with some national statistical offices is already ongoing and will continue, with a focus on preparing the needed data for better modelling efforts (more up-to-date and detailed social accounting matrices). In each of such deeper collaborations, capacity development elements will be integrated.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

DEVINVEST

title:

Recommendation 4: Strengthen the regional dimension of the project.  Better reflect the regional dimension in the ToC and logframe. Consider the suggestions made by evaluator (Annex A and B).  Produce at least one more Employment Impact Assessment Report of projects in SSA (output 2.1a).  Better promote EmpIA in at the regional level. Use the experience from the priority countries to create awareness and promote the EmpIA in SSA. Consider EmpIA as a topic in the margin of regional events like the EU-Africa Forum; or alternatively consider organizing jointly (EC, EIB, ILO) an event on EmpIA in SSA with participants from governments, EUDs and national research institutions.  Engage more with African statistics bureaux, research institutions and universities in order to address the challenges in terms of the availability of data and data collection.

project_symbols:

GLO/20/19/EUR

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/17091

information_source:

Head Quarters

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