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Partnership for Youth Employment in the CIS II - Midterm evaluation

eval_number:

2736

eval_title:

Partnership for Youth Employment in the CIS II - Midterm evaluation

location:

region:

Europe and Central Asia

country:

Europe and Central Asia - regional

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eval_url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2736

lessons_learned:

description:

Change of attitude happens and development results occur if employment challenges are dully addressed. The Project has strengthened efforts on tackling informality issues in the region which resulted in high political will in Azerbaijan to tackle informality and set the benchmark for other countries in transition to formal and dignified employment for young men and women

context:

The previous mid-term evaluation of the project “Partnerships for Youth Employment in the CIS (Phase I)” held in 2018 showed that governments were not ready to address the informality issues in the CIS region.

success:

During the second Phase, the Project provided extensive support on conducting a diagnostic assessments and tripartite discussions on the informal economy in Azerbaijan and challenges faced on the implementation of national scale programs targeting self-entrepreneurship and youth employment.

challenges:

It was observed through the interviews that government stakeholders were hesitant to address informality issues in the region as having a job (source of income) was more important than urging young men and women to come out of a shadow

administrative_issues:

The ILO staff, team of the project “Partnerships for Youth Employment in the CIS (Phase II)” The Project also supported sub-regional initiative implemented by the ILO such as “South-South technical cooperation and knowledge-sharing on an integrated approach towards formalization in (Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan) contributed to the development of the road maps for Azerbaijan (AZ), Kyrgyz Republic (KY), Tajikistan (TS) and Uzbekistan (UZ) to make progress towards an integrated strategic approach to facilitate the transition to formality.

comments:

Governments

url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/226008

themes:

theme:

Informal economy

category:

Employment

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