- Evaluation Plan:
- 2015-2020, Afghanistan
- Evaluation Type:
- Final Project
- Planned End Date:
- 09/2019
- Completion Date:
- 12/2019
- Status:
- Completed
- Management Response:
- Yes
- Evaluation Budget(US $):
- 40,000
Terminal Evaluation of the project "Strengthening the resilience of rural livelihood options for Afghan communities"
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| Title | Terminal Evaluation of the project "Strengthening the resilience of rural livelihood options for Afghan communities" | ||||||||||||||
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| Atlas Project Number: | 00076056 | ||||||||||||||
| Evaluation Plan: | 2015-2020, Afghanistan | ||||||||||||||
| Evaluation Type: | Final Project | ||||||||||||||
| Status: | Completed | ||||||||||||||
| Completion Date: | 12/2019 | ||||||||||||||
| Planned End Date: | 09/2019 | ||||||||||||||
| Management Response: | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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| Corporate Outcome and Output (UNDP Strategic Plan 2018-2021) |
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| Evaluation Budget(US $): | 40,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Source of Funding: | Project resources/ GEF | ||||||||||||||
| Evaluation Expenditure(US $): | 40,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Joint Programme: | No | ||||||||||||||
| Joint Evaluation: | Yes
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| GEF Evaluation: | Yes
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| Key Stakeholders: | Ministry of Agriculture | ||||||||||||||
| Countries: | AFGHANISTAN |
| Lessons | |
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| Findings |
| Recommendations | |
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| 1 | In the future, clear roles and resources should be defined for partners in terms of planning, implementation, and monitoring of project activities in the project documents. |
| 2 | UNDP needs to ensure that results frameworks are prepared at design stage and used during implementation in line with the results-based management concepts and monitoring and evaluation arrangements are improved. |
| 3 | It should be mandatory to include a sustainability/exit plan in the project documents. |
| 4 | CCAP should quickly train master trainers of Citizens’ Charter program implemented by MRRD to mainstream climate change adaptation all over the country. |
| 5 | L&R Unit should piggyback “Mobile public awareness van” run by the Governance Unit to spread CCA awareness messages in the country. |
| 6 | Like the Inception Workshop, CCAP should invite a wide range of stakeholders for a Closing/Lessons Learned Workshop to promote accountability, learning, visibility, and handing over and linking of the project investments to potential stakeholders |
| 7 | CCAP should urgently prepare and implement a sustainability plan to prolong benefits of project interventions. |
| 8 | Similar projects in the future need to make sure that climate change awareness, integration, and mainstreaming are well-understood and get as much importance as building resilience and reducing vulnerability |
| 9 | Future initiatives should make sure that ecosystem based adaptation (reduction in ecosystem vulnerability) is ensured through valley and watershed level plans, awareness creation activities, and community level joint actions and monitoring |
| 10 | With the adoption of Afghanistan SDGs by GoIRA, UNDP has an enormous opportunity to mainstream climate change adaptation in government programming, budgeting, and monitoring and evaluation. In the future, all UNDP units need to be given responsibility for climate change awareness and adaptation in their respective areas of responsibility. Within UNDP, it is important to educate all the units about climate change causes, risks, resilience and adaptation options, and ways to mainstream climate change. |
| 11 | CCAP should revise Community Development Plans and Provincial Plans to reflect newly acquired CCA Integration skills. |
1. Recommendation:
In the future, clear roles and resources should be defined for partners in terms of planning, implementation, and monitoring of project activities in the project documents.
Management Response: [Added: 2019/12/25]
Agreed: Clear roles and resources will be identified for all relevant partners.
Key Actions:
2. Recommendation:
UNDP needs to ensure that results frameworks are prepared at design stage and used during implementation in line with the results-based management concepts and monitoring and evaluation arrangements are improved.
Management Response: [Added: 2019/12/25]
Agreed: In future project document UNDP will fully implement this comment
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
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| In future project document development stage, that results frameworks will be in line with the results-based management concepts and monitoring and evaluation arrangements will be improved.
[Added: 2019/12/25] [Last Updated: 2019/12/26] |
Programme Analyst/consultants | 2019/12 | Completed | This activity is completed, no further comments required. History |
3. Recommendation:
It should be mandatory to include a sustainability/exit plan in the project documents.
Management Response: [Added: 2019/12/25]
Agreed: This is a very valid recommendation. A comprehensive Sustainability and exit strategy will be developed during the project development phase in future
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A comprehensive Sustainability and exit strategy will be developed during the project development phase
[Added: 2019/12/25] [Last Updated: 2019/12/26] |
Programme Analyst/ Consultant | 2019/12 | Completed | This activity is completed, no further comments. History |
4. Recommendation:
CCAP should quickly train master trainers of Citizens’ Charter program implemented by MRRD to mainstream climate change adaptation all over the country.
Management Response: [Added: 2019/12/25]
Agreed: This is not feasible now as the project finishes on 31 December 2019. However, there is another project CDRRP from the same donor with same component so CDRR will train master trainers of Citizens’ Charter program implemented by MRRD to mainstream climate change adaptation all over the country
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
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| CDRR will train master trainers of Citizens’ Charter program implemented by MRRD to mainstream climate change adaptation all over the country
[Added: 2019/12/25] [Last Updated: 2019/12/26] |
Project Manager of CDRRP project | 2019/12 | Completed | This activity is completed, no further comments History |
5. Recommendation:
L&R Unit should piggyback “Mobile public awareness van” run by the Governance Unit to spread CCA awareness messages in the country.
Management Response: [Added: 2019/12/25]
Agreed: This comment is well noted. We will consider this in CCAP’s sister project called CDRRP
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
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| CDRRP will piggyback “Mobile public awareness van” run by the Governance Unit to spread CCA awareness messages in the country.
[Added: 2019/12/25] [Last Updated: 2019/12/26] |
Project Manager of CDRRP project | 2019/12 | Completed | The activity is completed within CCAP Project, but this will also be considered in CDRRP project for 2020 planning. History |
6. Recommendation:
Like the Inception Workshop, CCAP should invite a wide range of stakeholders for a Closing/Lessons Learned Workshop to promote accountability, learning, visibility, and handing over and linking of the project investments to potential stakeholders
Management Response: [Added: 2019/12/25]
Agreed: Due to the security reason, this comment can not be addressed.
Key Actions:
7. Recommendation:
CCAP should urgently prepare and implement a sustainability plan to prolong benefits of project interventions.
Management Response: [Added: 2019/12/25]
Agreed: As the project is finishing on 31 December 2019 so now it is not feasible
Key Actions:
8. Recommendation:
Similar projects in the future need to make sure that climate change awareness, integration, and mainstreaming are well-understood and get as much importance as building resilience and reducing vulnerability
Management Response: [Added: 2019/12/25] [Last Updated: 2019/12/25]
Agreed: ; This comment is well noted. in future GEF supported projects climate change awareness, integration, and mainstreaming will be well-understood and get as much importance as building resilience and reducing vulnerability
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Climate change awareness, integration and mainstreaming will be well considered in future GEF climate change adaptation projects
[Added: 2019/12/25] [Last Updated: 2019/12/26] |
Programme Analyst | 2019/12 | Completed | This activity is completed, no further comments. History | |
| Climate change awareness, integration and mainstreaming will be well considered in future GEF climate change adaptation projects
[Added: 2019/12/25] [Last Updated: 2019/12/26] |
Programme Analyst | 2019/12 | Completed | This activity is completed, no further comments. History |
9. Recommendation:
Future initiatives should make sure that ecosystem based adaptation (reduction in ecosystem vulnerability) is ensured through valley and watershed level plans, awareness creation activities, and community level joint actions and monitoring
Management Response: [Added: 2019/12/25]
Agreed:
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In future GEF-supported climate change adaptation project, ecosystem-based adaptation will fully be considered
[Added: 2019/12/25] [Last Updated: 2019/12/26] |
Programme Analyst | 2019/12 | Completed | This activity is completed, no further comments. History |
10. Recommendation:
With the adoption of Afghanistan SDGs by GoIRA, UNDP has an enormous opportunity to mainstream climate change adaptation in government programming, budgeting, and monitoring and evaluation. In the future, all UNDP units need to be given responsibility for climate change awareness and adaptation in their respective areas of responsibility. Within UNDP, it is important to educate all the units about climate change causes, risks, resilience and adaptation options, and ways to mainstream climate change.
Management Response: [Added: 2019/12/25]
Agreed.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
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| During the new project development phase roles and resources will clearly identified for each relevant stakeholder
[Added: 2019/12/25] [Last Updated: 2019/12/26] |
Programme Analyst | 2019/12 | Completed | This activity is completed, no further comments History | |
| In future, Livelihoods and Resilience unit will consider climate change awareness top priority in project design and implementation of the project on the ground.
[Added: 2019/12/25] |
Programme Analyst | 2019/12 | Completed | This action is completed |
11. Recommendation:
CCAP should revise Community Development Plans and Provincial Plans to reflect newly acquired CCA Integration skills.
Management Response: [Added: 2019/12/25]
Agreed: As the project is finishing on 31 December 2019 so now it is not feasible.
Key Actions: