- Evaluation Plan:
- 2017-2021, Jamaica
- Evaluation Type:
- Final Project
- Planned End Date:
- 02/2021
- Completion Date:
- 07/2021
- Status:
- Completed
- Management Response:
- Yes
- Evaluation Budget(US $):
- 35,000
Final Evaluation of the "Deployment of Renewable Energy and Improvement of Energy Efficiency in the Public Sector" project
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| TerminalEvaluationGEF5FINAL.pdf |
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| Title | Final Evaluation of the "Deployment of Renewable Energy and Improvement of Energy Efficiency in the Public Sector" project | ||||||||||||||
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| Atlas Project Number: | 00087974 | ||||||||||||||
| Evaluation Plan: | 2017-2021, Jamaica | ||||||||||||||
| Evaluation Type: | Final Project | ||||||||||||||
| Status: | Completed | ||||||||||||||
| Completion Date: | 07/2021 | ||||||||||||||
| Planned End Date: | 02/2021 | ||||||||||||||
| Management Response: | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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| Corporate Outcome and Output (UNDP Strategic Plan 2018-2021) |
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| Evaluation Budget(US $): | 35,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Source of Funding: | Project | ||||||||||||||
| Evaluation Expenditure(US $): | 14,880 | ||||||||||||||
| Joint Programme: | No | ||||||||||||||
| Joint Evaluation: | No | ||||||||||||||
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| GEF Evaluation: | Yes
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| Key Stakeholders: | UNDP, GEF, Ministry of Science Energy and Technology, Petroleaum Corporation of Jamacia | ||||||||||||||
| Countries: | JAMAICA |
| Lessons | |
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| Findings |
| Recommendations | |
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| 1 | UNDP MCO in cooperation with the Government of Jamaica and the Development Bank of Jamaica should consider further capacity building for local private ESCOs to learn the skills and concepts that they need to successfully carry out performance contracting. |
| 2 | UNDP MCO should pursue engagement with the Ministry of Health and in order to secure funds for procurement and installation of solar water heaters for the project beneficiary HCFs. |
| 3 | UNDP MCO should ensure that the RE/EE projects are based on a clear and explicit theory of change and coherent results framework. |
| 4 | UNDP CO should ensure that indicators for the project results and their target values are correctly formulated to measure delivery at the project output and outcome levels and that progress towards achievement of results is regularly assessed at the level of project outputs. |
| 5 | The UNDP MCO should consider creation of a database of national experts in RE and EE linked to national post-secondary educational institutions and professional associations in order to have a pool of national RE/EE experts at hand and shorten the recruitment of project personnel for RE/EE projects. |
| 6 | For GEF-funded projects, UNDP MCO and the national implementing partners should track actual levels of co-financing during implementation and report the actually realized levels of co-financing in annual PIRs. |
1. Recommendation:
UNDP MCO in cooperation with the Government of Jamaica and the Development Bank of Jamaica should consider further capacity building for local private ESCOs to learn the skills and concepts that they need to successfully carry out performance contracting.
Management Response: [Added: 2021/07/30]
UNDP will share lessons learnt report with DBJ and encourage the provision of funding to supplement introductory training provided under the project
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
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| UNDP will share lessons learnt report with DBJ and encourage the provision of funding to supplement introductory training provided under the project
[Added: 2021/07/30] [Last Updated: 2022/01/31] |
Programmes Unit | 2022/03 | Overdue-Initiated | Lessons learnt and recommendations shared with key stakeholders in presentation of findings. History |
2. Recommendation:
UNDP MCO should pursue engagement with the Ministry of Health and in order to secure funds for procurement and installation of solar water heaters for the project beneficiary HCFs.
Management Response: [Added: 2021/07/30]
UNDP will follow-up with the Ministry of Health and Wellness to ascertain progress on the identification of funding and encourage installation of the solar heaters.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
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| UNDP will follow-up with the Ministry of Health and Wellness to ascertain progress on the identification of funding and encourage installation of the solar heaters.
[Added: 2021/07/30] [Last Updated: 2022/01/31] |
Programmes Unit | 2022/05 | Initiated | Preliminary assessments conducted of the savings which have been incurred based on the introduction of the renewable energy technology in the health sector. Additional engagement of the Ministry of Health is being planned. History |
3. Recommendation:
UNDP MCO should ensure that the RE/EE projects are based on a clear and explicit theory of change and coherent results framework.
Management Response: [Added: 2021/07/30]
UNDP’s revised PRODOC template requires that project documents include a theory of change with linkages between the development challenge and the immediate, underlying and root causes. Appropriate theories of change which are specific to the project scope, but linked to the overall Programme level Outcomes in the project design have been used to guide the project development process
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
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| Terminal Evaluation Report Recommendations will be shared with project development team
[Added: 2021/07/30] |
Monitoring and Evaluation | 2021/07 | Completed |
4. Recommendation:
UNDP CO should ensure that indicators for the project results and their target values are correctly formulated to measure delivery at the project output and outcome levels and that progress towards achievement of results is regularly assessed at the level of project outputs.
Management Response: [Added: 2021/07/30]
Develop a comprehensive M&E capacity building strategy
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
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| M&E analyst will work closely with the project development team to ensure project results are formulated at the correct level
[Added: 2021/07/30] [Last Updated: 2022/01/31] |
Monitoring and Evaluation Unit | 2022/12 | Initiated | History | |
| M&E analyst will work closely with the project managers to ensure output level results are tracked biannually
[Added: 2021/07/30] [Last Updated: 2022/01/31] |
Monitoring & Evaluation | 2022/12 | Initiated | History |
5. Recommendation:
The UNDP MCO should consider creation of a database of national experts in RE and EE linked to national post-secondary educational institutions and professional associations in order to have a pool of national RE/EE experts at hand and shorten the recruitment of project personnel for RE/EE projects.
Management Response: [Added: 2021/07/30]
UNDP will explore existing institutional mechanisms in order to identify a pool of consultants
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
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| Procurement Unit will review consultancies undertaken under the project to identify local consultants.
[Added: 2021/07/30] |
Procurement | 2022/12 | Not Initiated | ||
| UNDP will contact the Jamaica Institute of Engineers to obtain a listing of engineers to include in the database.
[Added: 2021/07/30] |
Procurement | 2022/12 | Not Initiated |
6. Recommendation:
For GEF-funded projects, UNDP MCO and the national implementing partners should track actual levels of co-financing during implementation and report the actually realized levels of co-financing in annual PIRs.
Management Response: [Added: 2021/07/30]
Reporting mechanisms will be modified to capture co-financing
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
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| Revise financial section of the annual report to capture co-financing
[Added: 2021/07/30] |
Programmes and Monitoring and Evaluation Unit | 2022/06 | Not Initiated | ||
| Include co-financing as an agenda item for project technical working group meetings
[Added: 2021/07/30] |
Programmes Unit | 2022/12 | Not Initiated |