Evaluation SDC Roma Project - Mid Term Evaluation - Job Opportunities for All
Project Description
EPI CENTAR International has been engaged by SDC to review relevant documentation and interview stakeholders, collect documents to extent the present actors influenced: a) increase of the employment of beneficiaries; b) change of policies and potential new services within institutional development, raising social inclusion as issue on the political agenda; c) strengthened the capacities of business sector for supporting employment of covered groups. In the analysis, the attention will be paid to getting an improved understanding of the most effective project’s actions and methods, as well as external/frame factors that contributed or hindered most to the progress achieved.
The overall goal of this project is for unemployed women and men, specifically members of venerable groups to obtain employment and have improved living conditions. The specific objectives of this project are:
More women and men from the Roma ethnic community and/or who have disabilities make use of tailor active labour market measures.
The private sector, including social enterprises, creates new jobs accessible to members of venerable groups, especially Roma and people with disabilities.
Relevant institutions to develop and implement policies and services that will ease access to the labour market for members of venerable groups, in particular Roma and people with disabilities.
The overall evaluation was based on the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods (tools applied in the theory of change, logical framework approach, results based management).
- a) increase of the employment of beneficiaries;
- b) change of policies and potential new services within institutional development, raising social inclusion as issue on the political agenda;
- c) strengthened the capacities of business sector for supporting employment of covered groups.
Attention was paid to getting an improved understanding of the most effective project’s actions and methods, as well as external/frame factors that contributed or hindered most to the progress achieved.
