- Evaluation Plan:
- 2020-2025, South Africa
- Evaluation Type:
- Final Project
- Planned End Date:
- 08/2021
- Completion Date:
- 11/2021
- Status:
- Completed
- Management Response:
- Yes
- Evaluation Budget(US $):
- 30,000
UNDP-GEF Terminal Evaluation of Mainstreaming Biodiversity into Land Use Regulation and Management at the Municipal Scale
| Document | Type | Language | Size | Status | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 UNDP-GEF-TE-TOR- 4719 BLU_FINAL .pdf |
tor | English | 544.98 KB | Posted | 563 |
| UNDP-GEF Terminal Evaluation of Mainstreaming Biodiversity into Land Use Regulation and Management at the Municipal Scale.PDF |
report | English | 2432.46 KB | Posted | 604 |
| Title | UNDP-GEF Terminal Evaluation of Mainstreaming Biodiversity into Land Use Regulation and Management at the Municipal Scale | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlas Project Number: | 00083075 | ||||||||||||||
| Evaluation Plan: | 2020-2025, South Africa | ||||||||||||||
| Evaluation Type: | Final Project | ||||||||||||||
| Status: | Completed | ||||||||||||||
| Completion Date: | 11/2021 | ||||||||||||||
| Planned End Date: | 08/2021 | ||||||||||||||
| Management Response: | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| Focus Area: |
|
||||||||||||||
| Corporate Outcome and Output (UNDP Strategic Plan 2018-2021) |
|
||||||||||||||
| SDG Goal |
|
||||||||||||||
| SDG Target |
|
||||||||||||||
| Evaluation Budget(US $): | 30,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Source of Funding: | Project | ||||||||||||||
| Evaluation Expenditure(US $): | 23,400 | ||||||||||||||
| Joint Programme: | No | ||||||||||||||
| Joint Evaluation: | No | ||||||||||||||
| Evaluation Team members: |
|
||||||||||||||
| GEF Evaluation: | Yes
|
||||||||||||||
| Key Stakeholders: | DEFF, SANParks, SANBI, CSIR, NGOs | ||||||||||||||
| Countries: | SOUTH AFRICA |
| Lessons | |
|---|---|
| Findings |
| Recommendations | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Monitor effectiveness of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Screening Tool to inform evidence-based decision making in order to authorize biodiversity developments for a better protection of biodiversity and natural resources. |
| 2 | Include a gender specialist in the project design team - Women's empowerment and gender equality are essential elements in the approach that UN agencies should follow in all their interventions. Therefore, it is important to ensure that gender issues are mainstreamed into future projects of UNDP in South Africa. |
| 3 | Target smallholding farmers to access market information and knowledge to improve the quality of their entrepreneur business for future projects |
1. Recommendation:
Monitor effectiveness of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Screening Tool to inform evidence-based decision making in order to authorize biodiversity developments for a better protection of biodiversity and natural resources.
Management Response: [Added: 2021/11/24]
Agreed.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conduct quality assessment of EIA reports, using the refined EIA Screening Tool.
[Added: 2021/11/24] [Last Updated: 2022/03/22] |
South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), UDDP | 2022/12 | Initiated | The EAI screening tool is in use and accepting of registration and login for quality assessments. History | |
| Make refinements to the EIA Tool as needed.
[Added: 2021/11/24] [Last Updated: 2022/03/22] |
South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), UNDP | 2022/03 | Completed | The EIA Tool was cleared and launched on SANBI website(http://eia.sanbi.org) for stakeholder use. History |
2. Recommendation:
Include a gender specialist in the project design team - Women's empowerment and gender equality are essential elements in the approach that UN agencies should follow in all their interventions. Therefore, it is important to ensure that gender issues are mainstreamed into future projects of UNDP in South Africa.
Management Response: [Added: 2022/03/22]
Fully agreed.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In future design, formalize the process of involving a gender specialist in future project design/planning.
[Added: 2022/03/22] |
UNDP | 2022/03 | Completed | The CO has enhanced the involvement of a gender specialist in project design/planning for gender mainstreaming. The programme units will continue sharing project documents to the gender specialist. |
3. Recommendation:
Target smallholding farmers to access market information and knowledge to improve the quality of their entrepreneur business for future projects
Management Response: [Added: 2022/03/22]
Fully agreed.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In future design, direct project beneficiaries should be centrally focused on in all future projects, in this case, small holding farmers.
[Added: 2022/03/22] |
UNDP | 2022/03 | Completed | The recommendation will be considered/applied during the identification and formulation of other proposals History |