This report presents the main findings of the UNDP Project “Strengthening climate resilience of the Batken Province of the Kyrgyz Republic through introduction of climate-smart irrigation and mudflow protection measures” in the Batken Province of the Kyrgyz Republic. The project was envisaged to strengthen the resilience of the Batken community and its objective was to promote best practices in the area of “climate-smart” agriculture, and protection of water infrastructure against hydrological disasters. It was underpinned by a Theory of Change, pursuing the following ultimate goal “Well-being, food and water security and agricultural livelihoods of rural communities and farmers in the Batken region are highly vulnerable to adverse climate change impacts due to low adaptive capacity”.

This evaluation was commissioned by UNDP Kyrgyzstan and was conducted in the period June-July 2022. The scope of this Evaluation covers all the project’s activities from the date the Project Document was signed on 29 March 2019, until the period in which this evaluation was conducted. The evaluation assessed the performance of the project according to OECD DAC criteria and definitions while following the norms and standards established by the United Nations Evaluation Group, guided by UNDP’s evaluation guidelines.