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Promoting Advancement of Vulnerable Persons and Enterprises (PAVE) Project in Sri Lanka

eval_number:

3510

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3510

location:

country:

Sri Lanka

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Promoting Advancement of Vulnerable Persons and Enterprises (PAVE) Project in Sri Lanka

recommendations:

date:

2026-05-14 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Monitoring and evaluation

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action_plan:

The project recognizes the importance of establishing a formal coordination and monitoring mechanism. For future phases including the GROW project, holding project advisory meetings at the provincial level can be formalized from early in the project cycle to support resolution implementation bottlenecks, and sustainability planning. As PAVE is currently nearing completion, the project will ensure to systematically document and share project outcomes, lessons learned, and success stories as institutional knowledge products. This will support replication, scale-up, and continuity through future programmes such as GROW and other inclusive economic development initiatives. Future interventions, including GROW, will establish a formal coordination and monitoring mechanism (District level project advisory meetings) early in the project cycle to strengthen oversight, stakeholder coordination, and sustainability planning. For PAVE, project outcomes, lessons learned, and success stories will be documented and shared to support institutional learning and future replication.

management_response:

Completed

progress:

Achieved

admin_units:

CO-Colombo

title:

Recommendation 2 (High Priority): Establish a Regional Coordination and Monitoring Mechanism at the project Inception A regional coordination and monitoring mechanism (e.g. Project Advisory Committee or a feasible alternative) should be established from the outset of future phases to ensure oversight, coordination, monitoring, risk mitigation, and institutional learning. This mechanism should involve relevant provincial authorities, sectoral institutions, local departments, cooperatives, private sector partners, and community representatives, and be sufficiently formal to address issues such as land acquisition, market dominance, and implementation delays. There had been discussions that a district level progress review meeting would be a more feasible option in this regard. It is also critical that the valuable experience, knowledge and success stories generated through the project be widely shared and institutionalised within the institutional context for replication, expansion and continuity.

project_symbols:

LKA/22/01/NOR

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/2388461

information_source:

Country Office

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