Subcomponent 3.2: Monitoring and evaluation Administrative record keeping – ideally publicly available – provides important information to monitor programs’ implementation, and to identify potential bottlenecks and solutions. Collecting household surveys and the capacity to analyze micro data are in turn key to track the performance of social protection and labor programs over time, and to assess their distributional impacts, including impacts on poverty and inequality. Monitoring activation and employment support programs should not only serve the purpose of tracking outcomes (job placement and quality of jobs), but they should also provide insights into program design and implementation – for example, whether the net income from self-employment for example is sufficient to ensure sustainable livelihood – and to identify obstacles, issues and lessons learned. To this end, this subcomponent will support:
the regular monitoring of key indicators to track the performance of the different employment programs implemented by the SES, including input indicators (budget executed, administrative and equipment expenses and number of staff employed by task) and output indicators (i.e. number of employers contacted, number of vacancies by sector and firm ownership, number of referrals, number of jobseekers that were offered, accepted or refused a job offer, job placement through intermediation services and ALMPs);
tracer studies of the employment trajectories of SES beneficiaries;
a rigorous impact evaluation of AzSEP;
training for survey and program administrative data analysis to generate relevant statistics to inform policy making in MLSPP and SES;
overall Project management and reporting requirements.
