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Extending social protection access and portability to migrant workers and their families through selected RECs in Africa (EC through ICMPD) - Final evaluation

eval_number:

3197

eval_title:

Extending social protection access and portability to migrant workers and their families through selected RECs in Africa (EC through ICMPD) - Final evaluation

location:

region:

Africa

country:

Africa - regional

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eval_url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3197

lessons_learned:

description:

Requests from one of the main project partners for human resources support should be accommodated as early as possible, if not the project might run into serious delays.

context:

In this project it took a long time to accommodate the request from EAC for direct human resources support. While the draft ToR for a National Project Officer to be located in the EAC Secretariat in Arusha was ready in late 2018, the NPO started almost one year later in October 2019. Delays occurred in getting the approval from the donor for an additional budget (including a new budget line) for human resources support for the EAC Secretariat, and in the recruitment procedure. In the meantime, EAC was suffering from severe understaffing and as a result progress was much slower in the first half of the project than in the other RECs.

success:

The positive effect is that in the end the human resources support could be delivered and as a result several activities were undertaken.

challenges:

The challenge is to accommodate such fundamental issues as human resources shortages on the side of one of the main partners/beneficiaries as early as possible during the project, or preferably at the design phase.

administrative_issues:

N.a.

comments:

Project team, ILO-ROAF, relevant ILO-DWT and Country Offices, EC.

url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/201580

themes:

theme:

Resource management

category:

Organizational issues

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