Improving social protection and promoting employment in Burkina Faso, Cambodia and Honduras

2.1 ENABLING ENVIRONMENT

2.1.4. Identification of relevant policy frameworks and development of appropriate actions

Recommendation: 9. When developing policies, strengthen implementing stakeholders’ capacities in subjects such as information systems and administrative/organisational processes of institutions.

Reference: Pacheco Jiménez, José Francisco, 2013, Improving social protection and promoting employment, Final evaluation, ILO, Geneva, Evaluation Summary on the topic “improving social protection and promoting employment in Burkina Faso, Cambodia and Honduras”.

Sample evidence: The evaluation found that development efforts should emphasise institutional strengthening in countries before proceeding with policy preparation. Considerable institutional bottlenecks affected the implementation of project activities and eventually restricted the achievement of more outcomes. Building strong national institutions is important. The report recommends paying more attention to two critical factors for the success of future policy development: information systems and administrative/organisational processes. Given the duration of policy development, however, the RNSF team believes that efforts to develop policies need to be undertaken simultaneously with policy development.

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2.4 APPROACHES TO ENHANCE LIVELIHOODS, EQUITY AND INCLUSION

2.4.1 Social dialogue and IE

Recommendation: 1) Promote and facilitate social dialogue between a range of stakeholders as this contributes to appropriate content, capacity strengthening through knowledge sharing, speedier decision-making and ownership.   Dialogue may include rural/or community members, local/regional/national government, civil society and academia representatives, workers and employers organisations.

Reference: Pacheco Jiménez, José Francisco, 2013, Improving social protection and promoting employment, Final evaluation, ILO, Geneva, Evaluation Summary on the topic “improving social protection and promoting employment in Burkina Faso, Cambodia and Honduras”.

Sample evidence: It was determined in the evaluation that the integrated approach promotes a broad concept of social promotion, then the scope of the social dialogue should also be expanded in order to incorporate all this range of groups and institutions that are now part of the concept.