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Public-Private partnership (PPP) between the chocolate and cocoa industry and the ILO in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire - Final Evaluation

eval_number:

2305

eval_title:

Public-Private partnership (PPP) between the chocolate and cocoa industry and the ILO in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire - Final Evaluation

location:

region:

Africa

country:

Africa - regional

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eval_url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2305

lessons_learned:

description:

When selecting beneficiaries in local communities we have learned that it is important to include all of the children in the community affected by the problem considered as well as their families (as direct or indirect beneficiaries).

context:

Beneficiary selection and inclusion in project activities frequently implies a significant advantage for local population. Internal competition, rivalries and tensions may arise within communities when beneficiary selection is under process and when certain community members are left out of project benefits. When the project aims at strengthening community participation and decision-making, these internal tensions can even work against project objectives. Furthermore, when beneficiaries are selected on a needs basis, project benefits can be seen as a “reward for being worse off” and can trigger attitudes such as “aid dependence” or a “race to the bottom”.

success:

This project has adopted a community-based intervention, focusing on community member involvement, capacity building and local advocacy through CAPs. This approach, in contrast with interventions with a select group of beneficiaries, reduces the negative impact of beneficiary selection and the tensions and negative attitudes related with it. It avoids tensions within community members and increases support to project activities and instruments such as CAPs, CCPCs and other forms of involvement in the fight against child labour.

challenges:

The main challenge that this lesson faces is that an increased number of beneficiaries requires a higher monetary and resource allocation, increasing the cost of the project. Furthermore, certain activities are more effective when they focus on a specific group or when they narrow down their scope of intervention.

administrative_issues:

Regarding the increased costs, ILO-IPEC has the organizational infrastructure necessary to mobilize large amounts of resources and therefore can consider broadening the number of beneficiaries in local communities. It is also possible that average costs may be lower when increasing the total number of beneficiaries (since there are certain fixed costs that are the same regardless of this number), something that may be worth considering.

comments:

This lesson targets direct beneficiaries, but most importantly those that are left out of this group for any reason.

url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/209488

themes:

theme:

Child labour

category:

Child labour, forced labour, human trafficking and slavery

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