Evaluation Learnings Search

Learning Description

Broad consultations throughout the life of the project with a wide range of relevant stakeholders from public, private and civil society sectors are beneficial, but require more time for implementation. Future projects should allot more time for implementation of such activities and adjust targets and milestones accordingly.

Learning Description

While supporting development of action plans (including regional plans) and monitoring systems are important to provide policy framework and tools for stakeholders, such measures alone do not allow for effective holistic implementation of defined actions to the benefit of final beneficiaries. Other activities such as awareness-raising are critical to change perceptions around child labor and program activities and allow for increased common understanding about child labor, as well as on tools and strategies to address it.

Learning Description

The process for defining workplans in CLEAR II countries involved consultations with different Ministries and Agencies involved in the fight against child labor. However, workplans were agreed with MoL and no agreements for direct activities with other ministries were established except in Jamaica where a signed MOU exists for CPFSA under the Ministry of Education. Although participation of officials from other ministries in trainings, workshops or membership in project-established bodies such as the LRCs, enhanced planning, limiting agreements to MOL alone reduces the effectiveness of capacity building efforts, ultimately limiting the host government’s potential for a comprehensive response to concrete cases of child labor that future projects should avoid.

Learning Description

Online platforms for knowledge sharing require in-depth needs and user requirement analysis at the outset to ensure uptake and sustainability, with reference materials curated for relevant existing knowledge (e.g. hazardous work lists and other useful reference materials).

Learning Description

Joint work on project implementation planning with government helps ensure close coordination and institutionalization of planned actions into government work plans.

Learning Description

CLEAR II had in-country local staff that played a major facilitation and collaboration role for the activities. Prompt deployment and early in-country presence of local project staff contributes to increased coordination, collaboration and understanding of the local social and political dynamic, ultimately improving local receptivity to the project and overall effectiveness.

Learning Description

The creation of dedicated committees or working groups to adapt local CL legislation to ILS offer a platform to enhance stakeholder knowledge and skills related to CL and legislative reform and to advance legislative reform efforts. The LRCs made substantial progress in assessing existing legis

Learning Description

The Training of Trainers (TOT) approach promotes the scale-up and sustainability of capacity building efforts by building a pool of competent instructors who then could teach the material to other people, using a training curriculum and supporting TOT guidance.

Learning Description

Supplies provided to children can be sufficient to help them return to school in the short term. Sometimes, however, it can also be seen as a rather reductionist strategy if the situation of underlying poverty is not addressed and in cases when the Promise Pathways project does not provide all services for each child, such as in Ichmraren where there are no services available to which the project can refer beneficiaries. The supplies could also be adapted to individual needs for better effectiveness; for example, providing gender-specific services in order to improve girls’ attendance in secondary school. In addition, the quality and durability of the materials supplied must be monitored.

Learning Description

It is necessary to ensure continuous monitoring and assessment of project strategies during the implementation process in order to adapt to shifting needs and realities. In particular, early adaptation to a changing institutional environment would be beneficial. Therefore, the ability to quickly design or reallocate strategies and/or to act quickly on needs would be advantageous, such as school feeding programs or health insurance. Whatever the decision (further remedial program activities/interruption; allow/do not allow payment of the school feeding program and health insurance for the project beneficiaries), it is important to reach a solution quickly in order not to burden the implementation and allow new strategies to evolve as a response to the initial decision. _x000D_