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ILO-UK Prosperity Fund Skills Programme for South East Asia (UKPFSEA) - Midterm evaluation

eval_number:

3126

eval_title:

ILO-UK Prosperity Fund Skills Programme for South East Asia (UKPFSEA) - Midterm evaluation

location:

region:

Asia and the Pacific

country:

Asia and the Pacific - regional

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eval_url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3126

lessons_learned:

description:

It is important to strike a reasonable balance between the wish for monitoring and its cost. This is a basic principle of all controlling or monitoring and evaluation systems. Where information is monitored that is not directly relevant to program performance, this reduces efficiency.

context:

The Programme had to attend to several fields of monitoring that were requested by the donor. While it collected the relevant information, processed it, and submitted it to the donor, feedback on the results of the monitoring was minimal, useless, and/ or very late.

success:

N.a.

challenges:

The donor in the program used monitoring methods which only partly relevant to program implementation. The program supplied the information and spent resources on collecting the same which ultimately was technically not required (not justified). In particular the collection of value-for-money information was irrelevant. It should be noted that cost of collection also accrue to the beneficiaries and the beneficiary country.

administrative_issues:

When negotiating and managing programs with donors, ILO should embrace the collection monitoring and evaluation information. However, it should also actively advise the donor on which information to collect and which not collect in order to achieve a good balance between the benefits of M&E and its cost. In these calculations, M&E costs accruing with beneficiaries need to also be accounted for.

comments:

Project managers, project officers, M&E officers

url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/244274

themes:

theme:

Monitoring and evaluation

category:

Organizational issues

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