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MPTF COVID: Healthy Socio-Economic Recovery of the Micro and Small Enterprise Sector of Sri Lanka (COVID-19) - Final joint evaluation

eval_number:

3301

eval_title:

MPTF COVID: Healthy Socio-Economic Recovery of the Micro and Small Enterprise Sector of Sri Lanka (COVID-19) - Final joint evaluation

location:

region:

Asia and the Pacific

country:

Sri Lanka

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eval_url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3301

lessons_learned:

description:

The project-set-up with a large number of very diverse activities was relevant and effective for a short-term immediate response project with several pilot elements, but follow-up projects should be more targeted.

context:

The project conducted a large number of quite different activities, including (but not limited to) procurement/distribution of PPE kits, OSH Training, several communication campaigns, Access to Finance (A2F) support through Banking Clinics and Value Chain Financing (VCF), training of women MSEs entrepreneurs, and Psycho-Social Support (PSS) activities.

success:

Follow-up projects focused on either one of those subjects mentioned above would benefit from a targeted approach and specialized expertise.

challenges:

Too many different activities will spread the resources (human and financial) too thinly. In the specific case of the PSS support, the evaluation is not convinced that PSS is within the domain of ILO’s core comparative expertise, and therefore this should perhaps be left to organisations having more sustained experience with such issues.

administrative_issues:

Re-purposed staff worked well in the present intervention, but it depends on the availability of staff as well as on the sources of financing of the assigned staff positions.

comments:

UN-MPTF, ILO and UNOPS Country Offices, ILO DWT and HQ, and UNOPS HQ, ILO EVAL, UNEG.

url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/245985

themes:

theme:

Small or micro - enterprises

category:

Enterprises

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