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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:

Algeria

region:

Africa

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country:

Lebanon

region:

Arab States

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country:

State of Palestine

region:

Arab States

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country:

Egypt

region:

Africa

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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:

Programme implementation

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action_plan:

As part of the new formalization intervention, a regional benchmarking and experience-sharing activity has been planned in connection with Algeria’s auto-entrepreneur scheme. This activity has been strategically scheduled towards the end of the project in order to enable, on the one hand, a more precise identification of priority themes and relevant areas for exchange, and, on the other hand, enhanced capitalization and dissemination of the project’s results and lessons learned. It will provide an opportunity to showcase the achievements and insights of the Algerian experience in promoting the auto-entrepreneur status, while engaging with regional and international partners to benefit from comparative experiences that can further inform and strengthen national approaches. This initiative is aligned with the ILO’s approach to technical cooperation, promoting mutual learning, knowledge sharing, and the dissemination of good practices in support of formalization policies.

management_response:

Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

RO-Arab States/DWT-Beirut

title:

Recommendation 5. Consider organising regional meetings towards the end of the project when there are concrete lessons to share. During the interim phases, exchange can take place through in-person study visits and peer-learning. The evaluation found that the in-person study visit of the OPT to Algeria was a good practice and a clear example of exchange and lessons learned. The larger both hybrid and in-person regional meetings were perceived as interesting but brought fewer concrete results or space for informal exchange compared to the costs necessary to organise a regional event. One barrier to the effectiveness of regional meetings was the lack of concrete results to present at national level. Therefore, several interviewees suggested that regional meetings would be more useful towards the end of the project, when lessons learned, and good practices could actually be presented and discussed. Future projects could, therefore, focus resources at initial stages of the project more towards peer-learning and study visits with concrete learning purposes, while planning larger regional meetings towards the project conclusion.

project_symbols:

INT/20/02/EUR

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/2351727

information_source:

Country Office

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