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PROMOTE: Decent work for domestic workers to end child domestic work - Final Joint Evaluation

eval_number:

1957

eval_title:

PROMOTE: Decent work for domestic workers to end child domestic work - Final Joint Evaluation

location:

region:

Asia and the Pacific

country:

Asia and the Pacific - regional

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region:

Asia and the Pacific

country:

Indonesia

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eval_url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/1957

lessons_learned:

description:

The PROMOTE project was designed in response to a US Department of Labor Solicitation for Grant Applications, which specified a number of project components. The project design closely followed the arrangement of these components but a strategic review of the design intervention logic was not undertaken during the design or the inception period. The resulting design did not provide a clear-cause effect hierarchy of results and some higher level results (such as increased public awareness of domestic workers’ rights and advocacy for legal change) occurred in several components. This had negative consequences for the capacity of the reporting and monitoring and evaluation system to clearly capture the outcomes of the project. It also made it difficult for external evaluators to understand the project logic. The mid-term evaluation noted a number of gaps in the M&E system but no adjustments to the performance framework were deemed necessary by the project management or backstopping staff. Additional M&E technical support from ILO or the USDOL may have been valuable at this juncture. The final evaluators recommended that ILO projects of substantial size should undergo participatory comprehensive monitoring and evaluation planning processes, including a review of the project theory of change, or an evaluability assessment during the inception phase.

context:

Projects and programmes of substantial value and duration. In the case of USDOL-funded projects, the evaluators understand that Comprehensive Monitoring and Evaluation Planning externally contracted services are now regular practice. For projects worth over US$5 million ILO policy currently requires evaluability assessments.

success:

Not applicable

challenges:

Project design teams responding to competitive bidding solicitations are frequently subject to time pressure and the need to conform to the design outlined in the solicitation, to the extent that it is defined. If the theory of change and monitoring and evaluation performance framework are not reviewed early in the implementation the M&E system may not be highly effective in capturing the project’s achievements, and independent evaluators may encounter difficulty assessing the project performance.

administrative_issues:

On a case by case basis, addressing the improvement of project design and performance frameworks requires the provision of support from ILO technical staff, EVAL or external specialists, at relevant points in the project cycle.

comments:

Project managers and implementing staff; project implementing partners; key stakeholders; and donors.

url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/198057

themes:

theme:

Planning and programme design

category:

Organizational issues

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