Evaluation Detail

Global Project on Support to REDD+ Implementation

Evaluation Plan:: 2022-2025, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support
Evaluation Type:: Mid Term Project
Planned End Date:: 06/2022
Completion Date:: 06/2022
Status:: Completed
Management Response:: No
Evaluation Budget(US $):: --

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Title

Global Project on Support to REDD+ Implementation

Atlas Project Number:

00101619

Evaluation Plan:

2022-2025, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support

Evaluation Type:

Mid Term Project

Status:

Completed

Completion Date:

06/2022

Planned End Date:

06/2022

Management Response:

Yes

Focus Area:

1. Poverty
2. Others

Corporate Outcome and Output (UNDP Strategic Plan 2018-2021)

1. Output 2.4.1 Gender-responsive legal and regulatory frameworks, policies and institutions strengthened, and solutions adopted, to address conservation, sustainable use and equitable benefit sharing of natural resources, in line with international conventions and national legislation

SDG Goal

Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

SDG Target

10.b Encourage official development assistance and financial flows, including foreign direct investment, to States where the need is greatest, in particular least developed countries, African countries, small island developing States and landlocked developing countries, in accordance with their national plans and programmes
13.2 Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
13.b Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities
15.2 By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally
15.b Mobilize significant resources from all sources and at all levels to finance sustainable forest management and provide adequate incentives to developing countries to advance such management, including for conservation and reforestation
16.7 Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels
17.16 Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, in particular developing countries
17.17 Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships
17.19 By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries
17.3 Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources

Evaluation Budget(US $):

Joint Programme:

Joint Evaluation:

Evaluation Team members:

Name	Title	Nationality
Ana Karla Perea	Independent Consultant Evaluator

GEF Evaluation:

Key Stakeholders:

UNEP, FAO

Countries:

GLOBAL

Lessons
Findings

Recommendations
1	Strengthen the project results framework and monitoring system: a) Establish clear definitions of what is measured with the indicators to improve clarity and avoid double representing of results towards different indicators. b) Define the monitoring frequency c) Establish the responsibility for data collection and sources of information.
2	Expand tracking of gender results across the project based on existing good practices and lessons learned for monitoring gender responsive actions implemented through UN-REDD. In particular, it is recommended to: a) Include gender in monitoring frameworks for new initiatives (e.g., NYDF) in a way in which results can be compared and aggregated across initiatives. This could also build on the work streams to support gender equality and the empowerment of women established in the PRODOC.
3	Enhance efforts to support activities focused on REDD+ implementation and finance. Scaling efforts for halting deforestation are urgently needed. The MTE found that an increased focus on implementation will be needed going forward, and specifically in supporting implementation of policies and measures designed, putting in place sustainable financing mechanisms for REDD+ NS/AP. Thus, it is recommended to: a) Continue to explore financing mechanisms and strategies as well as opportunities to support the development of financial packages to help countries scale up implementation of NDCs. b) Strengthen efforts to increase knowledge and capacities of countries and states/jurisdictions on carbon markets and results-based finance. c) Continue efforts to identify sources of finance for all activities under output 3.
4	Integration with the broader work with the NCE and the GPN has improved over time but needs to continue to systematically identify synergies and opportunities of collaboration across UNDP teams. In particular, it is recommended to: a) Conduct dissemination of results achieved and lessons learned on developing innovative projects with different sources of finance to foster alignment and identify synergies between the Climate and Forests Programme, the UNDP Climate promise initiative and the Sustainable Finance Hub. b) Conduct dissemination of results achieved and lessons learned on gender equality and the empowerment of women to continue fostering alignment across cross-cutting areas within UNDP.

Global Project on Support to REDD+ Implementation

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