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Road to Jobs: Bringing decent work to rural households of the Northern Provinces in Afghanistan - Final Evaluation

eval_number:

2360

eval_title:

Road to Jobs: Bringing decent work to rural households of the Northern Provinces in Afghanistan - Final Evaluation

location:

region:

Asia and the Pacific

country:

Afghanistan

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eval_url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2360

lessons_learned:

description:

With the MSD approach’s proven potential for social inclusion, the project could place a stronger focus on disadvantaged groups and design interventions that are more mindful of their social, economic and cultural situation. Women: While the project encouraged business partners to adopt ways of working that are more favourable to women, it should systematically take into account all of the factors that may influence how they are impacted by specific interventions. For instance, financial inclusion interventions proved to have differential effects on female and male workers. Women involved in the poultry buy-back system had a harder time accessing loans than men and were therefore more likely to drop-out. Action 3.1: Consistently adopting a gender lens can allow the project to better assess the challenges and barriers women face and address them in a timely manner. Specific measures that increase their bargaining power and render them more resilient, such as bringing them together in savings groups or cooperatives, can help ensure they reap the benefits of certain interventions to the same extent as men. Forcibly displaced people: While skills development training has enabled forcibly displaced people to gain and reinforce certain demand-driven skills, interventions have not always been carefully tailored to individual needs. Action 3.2: The project could harness its solid collaboration with the UNHCR

context:

Establishing local partnerships with implementing agencies, support institutions and local associations.

success:

R2J’s major success was to economically empower women in the carpet production sector by promoting new business models and allowing women to reconcile their care responsibilities and their economic activity. However, a careful examination of disadvantaged groups’ challenges in accessing the labour market should be mainstreamed, as these may vary from one group to another. Attention should be brought to intersectional barriers to labour market participation (e.g., gender and forced displacement).

challenges:

R2J’s major success was to economically empower women in the carpet production sector by promoting new business models and allowing women to reconcile their care responsibilities and their economic activity. However, a careful examination of disadvantaged groups’ challenges in accessing the labour market should be mainstreamed, as these may vary from one group to another. Attention should be brought to intersectional barriers to labour market participation (e.g., gender and forced displacement).

administrative_issues:

Design and implementation

comments:

Project staff; end-beneficiaries

url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/199193

themes:

theme:

Gender equality

category:

Conditions of work & equality

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