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The Labour Management Partnerships Program (LMPP) is a contributions program that was launched in December 1991. This program supports joint labour-management initiatives and projects that are designed and implemented in the workplace, or at sectoral or national levels, to foster and improve the labour-management relationship. The program's budget was approximately $1.8 million in 1996-97 and was $1.6 million in each of the subsequent years.

The LMPP was last evaluated in 1997. That evaluation concluded that the program provided good value and should be better marketed.¹ The current evaluation of the LMPP examines the degree of program success in terms of rationale, delivery and outcomes for the period 1997 to 2002.

This report highlights the statistical and qualitative research results from three lines of evidence:

• Descriptive statistics from a survey of over 200 project participants (i.e., senior managers, labour officials, researchers and others in participating organizations);
• In-depth case studies of 21 LMPP projects; and
• 16 key informant interviews conducted with leaders in business, organized labour, academia and government.

This report includes the following sections:

• An overview of the program;
• A summary of the evaluation issues and methodology;
• An overview of LMPP participants and projects;
• A review of the implementation of LMPP projects;
• An examination of how LMPP funding was used and the issues of incrementality, cost sharing and adequacy;
• An examination of program impacts and results;
• A consideration of other issues, including the issues of program awareness and sustainability; and
• A summary of the conclusions and possible implications with respect to fine-tuning the program.

Footnotes

1	Ekos Research Associates, Inc., Evaluation of the Labour-Management Partnerships Program (LMPP) Final Report, Evaluation and Data Development, Strategic Policy, HRDC, March 1998.