- Evaluation Plan:
- 2007-2009, Mozambique
- Evaluation Type:
- Outcome
- Planned End Date:
- 09/2009
- Completion Date:
- 10/2009
- Status:
- Completed
- Management Response:
- Yes
- Evaluation Budget(US $):
- 90,000
End of Term Review of Support to the Justice Sector
| Document | Type | Language | Size | Status | Downloads |
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 TOR - Justice Final Review.pdf |
tor | English | 126.74 KB | Posted | 527 |
| Support to the Justice Sector - End of Term Review Report.pdf |
report | English | 1811.27 KB | Posted | 884 |
| Title | End of Term Review of Support to the Justice Sector | ||||||||
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| Evaluation Plan: | 2007-2009, Mozambique | ||||||||
| Evaluation Type: | Outcome | ||||||||
| Status: | Completed | ||||||||
| Completion Date: | 10/2009 | ||||||||
| Planned End Date: | 09/2009 | ||||||||
| Management Response: | Yes | ||||||||
| Focus Area: |
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| Corporate Outcome and Output (UNDP Strategic Plan 2018-2021) |
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| Evaluation Budget(US $): | 90,000 | ||||||||
| Source of Funding: | EC External Funding | ||||||||
| Joint Programme: | No | ||||||||
| Joint Evaluation: | No | ||||||||
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| GEF Evaluation: | No | ||||||||
| Key Stakeholders: | Justice, provinces, EC, AGO, interior | ||||||||
| Countries: | MOZAMBIQUE | ||||||||
| Comments: | Strategic Plan Results Area: Democratic Governance; Partners: Min. Justice |
| Lessons | |
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| Findings |
| Recommendations | |
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| 1 | Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 1: Ensure continued support to relevant studies and surveys in support of policy and legal reform. |
| 2 | Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 2: Study of the obstacles faced by poor in accessing justice in urban and rural areas prior to designing the next phase of the project. |
| 3 | Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 3: Continue to analyze linkages between poverty and lack of access to justice. |
| 4 | Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 4: Identify institutional capacity gaps and develop interventions to strengthen them. |
| 5 | Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 5: Establish strengthened project monitoring and impact assessment mechanisms. |
| 6 | Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 6: Strengthening of coordination capacities at all levels (especially at province and district levels). |
| 7 | Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 7: Develop formalized partnership with NGOs and CSOs. |
| 8 | Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 8: Redesign human rights, HIV/AIDS and the gender component as cross-cutting themes. |
| 9 | Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 9: A monitoring system should be developed to continuously assess how the one-stop justice concept is functioning in view of adequately serving the poor and disadvantaged. |
| 10 | Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 10: Uniform reporting templates should be provided to all stakeholder personnel and implementing partners to ensure that reports are able to identify and capture progress and challenges in project implementation. |
| 11 | Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 11: Establish synchronized lessons learned exchanges across geographical and institutional divides. |
| 12 | Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 12: Establish baseline data and develop progress indicators for all components |
| 13 | Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 13: Annual work planning should involve provincial and district level stakeholders to ensure that annual targets and activities are realistic and correspond with the needs on the ground. |
| 14 | Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 14: A clearly articulated implementation strategy should be developed, spelling out the roles of all stakeholders in the project and including a monitoring and evaluation plan. |
| 15 | Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 15: Develop a mechanism/strategy for regularly keeping stakeholders and the public informed of progress made by the project. The best way to do this is through supporting communication strategies in the parent institutions of the project to undertake this function. |
| 16 | Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 16: Review project management and coordination arrangement with a view to formulate an exit strategy for the PIU. |
| 17 | Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 17: Create particular project components/sectors of excellence in order to establish model concepts for replication and re-enforce public outreach, learning and incentive mechanisms. |
1. Recommendation: Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 1: Ensure continued support to relevant studies and surveys in support of policy and legal reform.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/02/22]
Legislative revisions in prison reform and alternative to imprisonment should be done in coordination with Parliament for effectiveness of policy reforms.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1. To foster coordination between the UNDP, the Parliament and the Justice Project in the development of legislation revisions.
[Added: 2010/02/22] [Last Updated: 2013/09/30] |
Governance Unit | 2010/12 | Completed | Activity for 2010 AWP |
2. Recommendation: Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 2: Study of the obstacles faced by poor in accessing justice in urban and rural areas prior to designing the next phase of the project.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/02/22] [Last Updated: 2010/02/22]
The study on Human Rights Perception in Mozambique touched upon this issue. However, the design team for phase II should be mandated to address these issues in the light of the construction of the Palaces of Justice at district level.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1. To design a team to review the statistics from the district tribunals since the pilot project started and monitor district tribunal functioning and its impact on access to justice.
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP/Governance Unit | 2010/12 | Overdue-Not Initiated | Design team | |
| 2.2. To design a team to study and recommend how the phase II project could overcome these obstacles faced by the poor in accessing justice in both urban and rural areas.
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP/Governance Unit | 2010/12 | Overdue-Not Initiated | Design team |
3. Recommendation: Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 3: Continue to analyze linkages between poverty and lack of access to justice.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/02/22]
The UIP and the UNDP will continue to analyze the links between poverty and access to justice and feed this information in for the project design for phase II. Already these linkages were reviewed in the PACAJ study on gender issues in the Administration of Justice and Police done by the CFJJ with project funds.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1. Analysis to be part of the phase II design.
[Added: 2010/02/22] [Last Updated: 2013/09/30] |
UIP/Governance Unit | 2010/11 | Completed | Activity for 2010 AWP |
4. Recommendation: Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 4: Identify institutional capacity gaps and develop interventions to strengthen them.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/02/22]
During implementation, PACAJ has undergone two surveys on knowledge management at district and provincial levels to assess the opinion and capacity of stakeholders in the justice sector. NGOs and local radios have been working on legal awareness. The IPAJ has developed TV programmes on legal awareness. The assessment of justice capacities should be done following pilot project activities.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1. To undertake local level capacity assessment of justice providers.
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP/Governance Unit | 2010/12 | Overdue-Not Initiated | Design team | |
| 4.2. To design a team to use strategic plans and institutional diagnostics undertaken by various institutions during the PACAJ to help develop the next phase of the Justice Project.
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP/Governance Unit | 2010/12 | Overdue-Not Initiated | Design team | |
| 4.3 To further promote policy/legislative necessary reforms after DGTTF prison legal reform and alternative to imprisonment in order to ensure integral legal framework for the prison system.
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP/Governance Unit | 2010/12 | Overdue-Not Initiated | Design team |
5. Recommendation: Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 5: Establish strengthened project monitoring and impact assessment mechanisms.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/02/22]
RBM training should be provided to all stakeholders in the project to help strengthened project monitoring. Support to data collection (desegregated when possible) should also be provided.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.1. To provide RBM training to justice stakeholders (GoM, CSOs, Project staff).
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP/Governance Unit | 2010/12 | Overdue-Not Initiated | Activity for 2010 AWP | |
| 5.2. To design a team to look into the need to strengthen data collection, project monitoring and impact assessment.
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP/Governance Unit | 2010/12 | Overdue-Not Initiated | Design team |
6. Recommendation: Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 6: Strengthening of coordination capacities at all levels (especially at province and district levels).
Management Response: [Added: 2010/02/22]
The PAI methodology should be used and provincial offices should be maintained to foster efficiency and good functioning of sub-commissions at district level.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.1. To monitor the functioning of sub-commissions at district level and disseminate the PAI methodology at local level.
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP/Governance Unit | 2010/12 | Overdue-Initiated | Activity for 2010 AWP |
7. Recommendation: Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 7: Develop formalized partnership with NGOs and CSOs.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/02/22]
We agree with the recommendation and suggest doing both capacity building of CSOs and using them for activity implementation. Experience demonstrated low capacity in CSOs, especially at local level. Future project should contemplate training in financial management and RBM. Next project should plan for high maintenance activities with CSOs.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.1. Ministry of Justice: to develop a Code of Conduct to regulate relationship between Human Rights Organizations and the Government.
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP/Governance Unit | 2007/01 | Overdue-Initiated | Draft received | |
| 7.2 Design team: to built in capacity building initiative for CSOs in project document.
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
Governance Unit | 2007/01 | Overdue-Not Initiated | Activity for 2010 AWP |
8. Recommendation: Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 8: Redesign human rights, HIV/AIDS and the gender component as cross-cutting themes.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/02/22]
Management Response: The strategy should be informed by the studies funded by the PACAJ.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.1. Design team: To mainstream cross-cutting themes into activities following studies? recommendations.
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP/Governance Unit | 2010/12 | Overdue-Not Initiated | Design of phase 2 |
9. Recommendation: Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 9: A monitoring system should be developed to continuously assess how the one-stop justice concept is functioning in view of adequately serving the poor and disadvantaged.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/02/22]
One of the 2010 bridging project activities is aiming at supporting the development of a monitoring system for the functioning of the Palaces of Justice built by the pilot project.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.3. To ensure coordination between other justice stakeholders and donors involved in the Justice sector for consolidated approach and efficiency of the Palaces
[Added: 2010/02/22] [Last Updated: 2013/09/30] |
UIP/Governance Unit | 2010/12 | Completed | In progress | |
| 9.1. To assess the functioning of the Palaces of Justice in the pilot districts of the PACAJ
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP/Governance Unit | 2010/12 | Overdue-Not Initiated | Activity for 2010 AWP | |
| 9.2. Design team: To built in this activity in the project document
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP/Governance Unit | 2010/12 | Overdue-Not Initiated | Design team |
10. Recommendation: Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 10: Uniform reporting templates should be provided to all stakeholder personnel and implementing partners to ensure that reports are able to identify and capture progress and challenges in project implementation.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/02/22]
Reporting templates and financial training were provided to the NGOs mid way during PACAJ implementation, and reporting improved substantially. However, with high turnover ratio, training should be repeated, and close monitoring of report quality is necessary.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10.1. Document to be prepared for implementing partners, fostering uniform reporting during phase 2.
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP/Governance Unit | 2010/11 | Overdue-Not Initiated | Activity for 2010 AWP | |
| 10.2. Document to be prepared to guide implementing partners in financial accountability and reporting during phase 2.
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP/Governance Unit | 2010/12 | Overdue-Not Initiated | Activity for 2010 AWP |
11. Recommendation: Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 11: Establish synchronized lessons learned exchanges across geographical and institutional divides.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/02/22]
Surveys were done twice during project implementation to gather lessons learned and opinion from beneficiaries and various institutions involved in the project at all levels.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11.1. To continue to survey opinion and gather lessons learned from stakeholders in the field and at central level.
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP/Governance Unit | 2010/12 | Overdue-Initiated | Activity for 2010 AWP |
12. Recommendation: Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 12: Establish baseline data and develop progress indicators for all components
Management Response: [Added: 2010/02/22]
Continuation of the monitoring framework developed during the PACAJ to accompany policy and activity implementation.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12.1. Tp pursue knowledge and tools transfer to the Ministry of Justice to monitor justice policy and activities.
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP/Governance Unit | 2010/12 | Overdue-Initiated | In progress |
13. Recommendation: Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 13: Annual work planning should involve provincial and district level stakeholders to ensure that annual targets and activities are realistic and correspond with the needs on the ground.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/02/22]
Annual planning meetings should be conducted with provincial offices; communication mechanisms should be established.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13.2. To regularly share minutes of internal meetings, coordination meetings, technical meetings and PSC meetings and PAI monitoring tool with provincial offices.
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP | 2010/12 | Overdue-Initiated | In progress | |
| 13.1 To organize planning meetings with provincial implementers
[Added: 2010/02/22] [Last Updated: 2013/09/30] |
UIP | 2010/03 | Completed |
14. Recommendation: Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 14: A clearly articulated implementation strategy should be developed, spelling out the roles of all stakeholders in the project and including a monitoring and evaluation plan.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/02/22]
The project document should serve as a basis of the implementation strategy.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14.1. The next phase shall develop an implementation strategy spelling out the roles of various stakeholders in the project and a monitoring and evaluation framework.
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP/Governance Unit | 2010/12 | Overdue-Not Initiated | Design team for phase 2 |
15. Recommendation: Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 15: Develop a mechanism/strategy for regularly keeping stakeholders and the public informed of progress made by the project. The best way to do this is through supporting communication strategies in the parent institutions of the project to undertake this function.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/02/22]
The communication between the PACAJ, stakeholders, and members of the public will be improved by distribution of a quarterly newsletter to justice institutions, donors, and the public. The distributions will be executed by journalists.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.1. To develop a quarterly newsletter on PACAJ activities to disseminate project results.
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP | 2009/12 | Completed | To continue in 2010 | |
| 15.2. To develop and update the PACAJ website
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP | 2010/12 | Overdue-Not Initiated | Website finalized; four persons have been trained | |
| 15.3. To disseminat.a Pamphlet and video on project results:
- to finalize a video of 30 minutes and its shorter version of 7 minutes ; to develop a dissemination strategy for the video and a song on Human Rights
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP | 2010/12 | Overdue-Not Initiated | A pamphlet was produced; video production as well as dissemination strategy are in progresss |
16. Recommendation: Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 16: Review project management and coordination arrangement with a view to formulate an exit strategy for the PIU.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/02/22]
Exit strategy should be gradual. Review also reported that PIU was instrumental to high delivery. Strong leadership and management in PIU have been key to Project success. As an intermediate measure, the PIU could be recognized as an integral part of the MoJ, strengthening the IP capacity to take over in the future.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16.1 To keep a strong technical expertise in the PIU until there is an evident capacity to deliver qualitative and timely results by the IP.
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP/Governance Unit | 2010/12 | Overdue-Initiated | ||
| 16.2. To develop a gradual exit strategy.
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP | 2010/12 | Overdue-Initiated | In progress |
17. Recommendation: Evaluation Recommendation or Issue 17: Create particular project components/sectors of excellence in order to establish model concepts for replication and re-enforce public outreach, learning and incentive mechanisms.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/02/22]
Project component of excellence has been the development of coordination mechanisms for greater articulation between various justice institutions. Construction of Palaces of Justice also contributed to this effect. Both components should be monitored for efficiency and sustainability. The development of project video on these sectors of excellence will contribute to the dissemination of the new concept of integrated justice. As recommended in PSC, the video should be shared with universities and shorter version should be posted on various websites and programs.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17.2 To monitor and report on functioning of Palaces of Justice and commissions for legality at district and provincial levels.
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP/Governance Unit | 2010/12 | Overdue-Initiated | Activity for 2010 AWP | |
| 17.3 To disseminate project video and create shorter version to be posted on various websites and programmes.
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
UIP/Governance Unit | 2010/12 | Overdue-Initiated | Activity for 2010 AWP | |
| 17.1 Design project: to focus on both sectors of excellence, and establish model concepts for replication in other provinces and districts.
[Added: 2010/02/22] |
Governance Unit | 2010/12 | Overdue-Not Initiated | Design team for phase 2 |