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Social dialogue for formalization and employability in the Southern Neighbourhood Region (SOLIFEM)

eval_number:

2351630

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2351630

location:

country:

Lebanon

region:

Arab States

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country:

Algeria

region:

Africa

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country:

Egypt

region:

Africa

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country:

State of Palestine

region:

Arab States

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eval_title:

Social dialogue for formalization and employability in the Southern Neighbourhood Region (SOLIFEM)

recommendations:

date:

2026-06-03 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Monitoring and evaluation

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action_plan:

Within the framework of the new formalization intervention, it was agreed to strengthen and expand the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system in order to better capture the outcomes and impacts of project activities. To this end, the project will introduce pre- and post-training assessments targeting beneficiaries involved in capacity-building activities. This approach will enable a more systematic measurement of changes in participants’ knowledge, skills, and practices. Beyond assessing individual learning outcomes, the enhanced M&E framework is also intended to capture the broader effects of project interventions on institutional dynamics. In particular, it will support the analysis of how project activities influence partners’ decision-making processes and contribute to policy developments related to formalization. This approach is fully aligned with results-based management principles and aims to strengthen learning, adaptive management, and accountability, in line with the ILO’s standards and approaches to monitoring and evaluation.

management_response:

Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

RO-Arab States/DWT-Beirut

title:

Recommendation 4. Expand the M&E system of future projects to measure every step along the ToC and obtain different data to measure project achievements. The SOLIFEM project progress was measured largely through quantitative, factual indicators that measured registration numbers, participation numbers, numbers of roadmaps developed, etc. While these indicators would be suitable to measure the implementation of activities, reach of the target groups, gender balance, and achievement of immediate outputs, those are less effective to measure quality or capacity. The project progress relied largely on the increased awareness and capacity of social partners, as well as beneficiaries. However, the M&E framework did not include indicators measure such change, for example through pre-and post-training surveys/test, surveys of constituents. It also did not measure the quality of activities, for example through satisfaction surveys or through interviews/FGDs. Similarly, the M&E framework measures the number of training programmes and RPL frameworks developed but does not specify the criteria for the quality of those documents. Furthermore, the M&E system should measure all steps from activity participation to impact. Through this approach, project staff can better identify bottlenecks. E.g. if constituents indicated they learned nothing, and there is no policy change under impact, the reason for the lack of change is clear. However, if constituents report increased capacity but there is policy change still, ILO would need to identify the factors hindering the translation of that capacity into results.

project_symbols:

INT/20/02/EUR

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/2351722

information_source:

Country Office

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