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Development of a Social Economy Policy in South Africa - Final evaluation
- eval_number:
- 2774
- eval_title:
- Development of a Social Economy Policy in South Africa - Final evaluation
- location:
- region:
- Africa
- country:
- South Africa
- eval_url:
- https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2774
- lessons_learned:
- description:
- Lesson 2: Bringing on board citizens, specialists and experts from various sectors of the social economy contributing a wealth of ideas to the development of the Social and Solidarity Economy Policy.
The panels include IGAC: Intergovernmental Advisory Committee, Expert Reference Panel that included the Citizens and Experts, Specialist consultations- Legal, Academic and CSI brought about a fertilisation of ideas critical for effective delivery of project results.
- context:
- It was necessary to capture views from a wide a spectrum as possible to be able to avoid pitfalls such as gaps in information about what the social economy is and be able to generate the possible path for the process to be successful. This was key to enable the policy address issues of efficiency and effective and relevancy and sustainability of the results.
- success:
- Identification of the right approaches to processes, support, interventions and how to realize project outputs and outcomes.
- challenges:
- Context can change with time and render the lessons learnt in the past obsolete.
- administrative_issues:
- Requires well trained staff, adequate financing to ensure the process is comprehensive. Meticulous design for the learning process is critical to ensure key and important lessons are documented. The implementation should be continuous to capture emerging issues such as challenges and negate them in a timely manner.
- comments:
- South African government’s ministries departments and agencies, ILO itself and Government of Flanders and of course social economy sector players, Academia and employers and workers.
- url:
- https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/230483
- themes:
- theme:
- Knowledge management
- category:
- Organizational issues
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