Social Protection and Gender in Cambodia Final Evaluation

2.1 ENABLING ENVIRONMENT

2.1.7 Institution and capacity strengthening on IE

Recommendation: 1. Ensure projects include focus on capacity strengthening of institutional partners and dissemination of project learning as specifically related to the IE.

Reference: Mingoen, Hariette, 2012, Social Protection and Gender in Cambodia Final Evaluation, Evaluation Summary, Final evaluation, ILO, Geneva.

Sample evidence: the evaluation concluded, based on findings, that sharing and learning as well as capacity building of partners should be an integral part of project implementation.

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2.1.11 Coordination and sustainability planning

Recommendation: 6. To improve groundwork for effective coordination ensure that all stakeholder partners are brought together at project inception so that:

•     The objectives of the project are understood by all

•     The direction of the project is clear

•     There is agreement on indicators

•     Activities are coherent and aligned.

Although these are commonly known steps to ensure good coordination, they are frequently only partially implemented. More attention needs to be paid to these aspects.

Reference: Mingoen, Hariette, 2012, Social Protection and Gender in Cambodia Final Evaluation, Evaluation Summary, Final evaluation, ILO, Geneva.

Evidence sample: the evaluation determined that in a project with multiple implementing partners, it is critical to bring partners together, preferably at the beginning of the project, to ensure that the objectives of the project are understood by all, to discuss the direction of the project, agree on indicators and ensure that activities are coherent and aligned.

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2.4 APPROACHES TO ENHANCE LIVELIHOODS, EQUITY AND INCLUSION

2.4.3. Social protection

Recommendation: 10) Facilitate the strengthening of capacities and understanding of the linkages between social protection and employment. That includes the importance of social protection as an element that contributes to the protection of workers who are dependent on the IE.

Reference: Mingoen, Hariette, 2012, Social Protection and Gender in Cambodia Final Evaluation, Evaluation Summary, Final evaluation, ILO, Geneva.

Evidence sample: the evaluation noted that collaboration with the ILO/EU Improving Social Protection and Promoting Employment project, which is implemented as a response to the National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS) of the government of Cambodia has also been very limited.

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2.4 APPROACHES TO ENHANCE LIVELIHOODS, EQUITY AND INCLUSION

2.4.5. Strengthening IE with attention to gender issues

Recommendation: 5) In projects with people dependent on the IE, include a specific component on gender mainstreaming and ensure that it is well articulated in the project design. Ensure that this includes development of training and policies that take the different needs of female and male operators/workers into account.

Reference: Mingoen, Hariette, 2012, Social Protection and Gender in Cambodia Final Evaluation, Evaluation Summary, Final evaluation, ILO, Geneva.

Evidence sample: interventions on Equality and Non-Discrimination at Work, including the action oriented study on Gender Equality and Working and Living Conditions of Garment Factory Workers in Cambodia should were more at the forefront, followed by interventions as action oriented responses.

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2.4 APPROACHES TO ENHANCE LIVELIHOODS, EQUITY AND INCLUSION

2.4.5. Strengthening IE with attention to gender issues

Recommendation: 16) Ensure that women’s participation in discussion includes participation in actual decision-making. Include indicator(s) that will measure this.

Reference: Mingoen, Hariette, 2012, Social Protection and Gender in Cambodia Final Evaluation, Evaluation Summary, Final evaluation, ILO, Geneva.

Evidence sample: The evaluation concluded that the promotion of women’s participation in workplace level decision-making’ was partly reached.