Support to Capacity Building in the Justice Sector

Support to Capacity Building in the Justice Sector

Completedon 31 Aug, 2007
Evaluation Plan
Planned End Date
Sep 2007
Evaluation Type
Project
Management Response
Yes
Evaluation Budget
$2,020
Summary
V. Lessons Learned: There are many lessons learned from the implementation of the Project. This report will mention some of the major lessons learned as understood from the desk review and the meeting with the relevant stakeholders. The first lesson learned was that the project design has to be a little more precise and realistic. Because the original project document had far too many activities planned for a very short period of time, a wrong impression relating to a number of unimplemented activities can easily be perpetuated. As stated in the outset of this report, the project has been very successful in achieving its key results despite shortcoming in the design. More attention also has to be paid to the overall duration of the project. Two years was too short of period for accomplishing all of the proposed activities. The second lesson learned relates to the need to look into justice as a sector with MOJ assuming leadership position within it. There are various needs within the sector and a single project is nor likely to meet the majority of these needs. UNDP support has thus far provided a much needed support to assist MOJ with some of the pressing needs. However, UNDP is better situated to further assist MOJ in two vital areas: (1) continue to strengthen MOJ's capacity to carry out a sector-wide needs-assessment to be widely discussed and converted into a national justice action plan; and (2) garner more donor support for the justice sector and further strengthen areas in which joint collaboration (between UNDP and MOJ) has produced significant results in relation to legislative and legal reform. The third lesson learned relates to the realization that much of delay in implementing some of the activities can be attributed in part to the acute shortage of appropriate expertise that combines: advanced legal knowledge, adequate contextual understanding and appropriate legal skills. UNDP has the capacity to provide more assistance to MOJ in ident
  • Evaluation Information
Evaluation Title
Support to Capacity Building in the Justice Sector
Plan Period
Status
Completed
Type
Project
Management Response
Yes
Plan Date
30 Sep, 2007
Quality Assessment
No
Completion Date
31 Aug, 2007
Joint Programme
No
Joint Evaluation
No
Budget
$2,020
GEF Evaluation
No
Expenditure
$0
Countries
Eritrea
Comments
Yes
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