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Combat child labour in domestic work and the worst forms in Haiti - Final evaluation

eval_number:

2390

eval_title:

Combat child labour in domestic work and the worst forms in Haiti - Final evaluation

location:

region:

Americas

country:

Haiti

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eval_url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2390

lessons_learned:

description:

Interventions are likely to be effective and sustainable only if they are planned and implemented in a systemic way. An intervention aimed at increasing employability and entrepreneurship has been implemented in a weak Haitian ecosystem where support structures are fragile or non-existent. Ad-hoc interventions focused solely on punctual aspects in the value chain of the labour market or of entrepreneurship are likely to lead to diluted effects.

context:

Socio-economic integration of vulnerable youth provides vocational trainings to 400 selected youth aged 14-17 from Torbek. The curriculum involves a selection of trainings in four vocational areas: Agro-food production, nursery, livestock production, and agroforestry. The same curriculum includes an entrepreneurial module entitled “Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB)”.

success:

Since the training was ongoing by the time of the evaluation, it is not possible to provide insights as to the success-positive issues.

challenges:

These trainings are relevant in the targeted rural context; while the employability training has a technical training curriculum that is adapted to the rural context, the cognitive and behavioural skills trainings are offered to youth beneficiaries through a life skills training. The current training programme design also provides for the establishment of a placement centre, to link youth beneficiaries to farmers’ associations. The design lacks the “responsiveness aspect”, and does not utilize any framework that ensures that trainings are adapted to the specific needs of those employers. In its actual format, the training content is pre-determined and is not adjustable to potential employers’ requirements. The Project’s current training programme includes a theoretical training module on entrepreneurship but lacks substantive coaching and mentoring, access to finance, and linking youth to entrepreneurial networks. In context where an entrepreneurial ecosystem is weak and almost inexistent, relying on a theoretical training is not sufficient to attain results in terms of entrepreneurship.

administrative_issues:

In terms of design and implementation: employability and entrepreneurship programmes should be developed in a systemic way. The employability programmes should ensure that offered trainings are complemented with links to employers and that training curriculums are adapted to employers' needs. The entrepreneurship programme should be developed as a separate programme from the vocational training programme. It should go beyond delivering theoretical training and the development of a business model (especially because other local organizations already deliver trainings on entrepreneurship). An entrepreneurship programme should take into consideration actors of the ecosystem, establish linkages and partnerships and offer complementary services.

comments:

Donors, Chief Technical Advisors, International Project Coordinators, Technical Officers, National Project Coordinators.

url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/214677

themes:

theme:

Planning and programme design

category:

Organizational issues

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