- Evaluation Plan:
- 2017-2021, Albania
- Evaluation Type:
- Final Project
- Planned End Date:
- 03/2021
- Completion Date:
- 08/2021
- Status:
- Completed
- Management Response:
- Yes
- Evaluation Budget(US $):
- 11,000
Evaluation of project “Establishing Albania’s Environmental Information Management and Monitoring System Aligned with the Global Reporting”
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 5308 Albania CCCD TOR.pdf |
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| 5308 Albania CCCD TE.pdf |
report | English | 1918.52 KB | Posted | 876 |
| Title | Evaluation of project “Establishing Albania’s Environmental Information Management and Monitoring System Aligned with the Global Reporting” | ||||||||||||||
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| Atlas Project Number: | 00089654 | ||||||||||||||
| Evaluation Plan: | 2017-2021, Albania | ||||||||||||||
| Evaluation Type: | Final Project | ||||||||||||||
| Status: | Completed | ||||||||||||||
| Completion Date: | 08/2021 | ||||||||||||||
| Planned End Date: | 03/2021 | ||||||||||||||
| Management Response: | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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| Corporate Outcome and Output (UNDP Strategic Plan 2018-2021) |
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| Evaluation Budget(US $): | 11,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Source of Funding: | Project Budget | ||||||||||||||
| Evaluation Expenditure(US $): | 11,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Joint Programme: | No | ||||||||||||||
| Joint Evaluation: | No | ||||||||||||||
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| GEF Evaluation: | Yes
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| Key Stakeholders: | Ministry of Environment | ||||||||||||||
| Countries: | ALBANIA |
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| 2 | Evaluation recommendation 2. UNDP should encourage future projects to have a more comprehensive communication strategy through enacting a more comprehensive project website including all details of the project, results, workshops, feature stories, etc. |
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| 3 | Evaluation recommendation 3. The project has adopted a successful approach for engaging civil society. The use of citizen science techniques through brainstorming events has led to novel monitoring methods and have encouraged greater awareness on environment issues within civil society. The experiences of this approach should be clearly documented before the conclusion of the project to ensure there is wide (within Albania and more widely) awareness of these approaches. |
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1. Recommendation:
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Evaluation recommendation 1: The Ministry of Tourism and Environment (MTE) and the National Environment Agency (NEA) should be encouraged to seek additional resources to build on the success of the Environment Information Management and Monitoring System - EIMMS and the capabilities strengthened with reporting to Rio Conventions. A follow-on project should be designed to bring all remaining environmental data platforms together and to ensure that the system will be compatible with future monitoring and reporting needs associated with EU directives. |
Management Response: [Added: 2021/07/01] [Last Updated: 2021/08/02]
Support and exchange of lessons learned is provided by UNDP in drafting of EU - IPA 3 sectorial strategic response on environment and climate change, where horizontal issues and environmental information and management system is an important component.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
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| 1.1 UNDP, within its next programming cycle will support the MTE to seek additional resources from different donors (including EU) and design a follow-on project to build on the success of the EIMMS and the capabilities strengthened with reporting to Rio Conventions, and bring all remaining environmental data platforms together and to ensure that the system will be compatible with future monitoring and reporting needs associated with EU directives. Q3 2021 and ongoing
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2022/01/11] |
MTE NEA UNDP | 2021/12 | Completed | UNDP supported and provided all the technical document and guidance to IPA 3 drafting Evidence: https://konsultimipublik.gov.al/documents/RENJK_348_RENJK_348_IPA%20III%20DRAFT%20STRATEGIC%20RESPONSE%20ALBANIA_10%20May%202021.pdf History |
2. Recommendation:
Evaluation recommendation 2.
UNDP should encourage future projects to have a more comprehensive communication strategy through enacting a more comprehensive project website including all details of the project, results, workshops, feature stories, etc.
Management Response: [Added: 2021/07/01] [Last Updated: 2021/08/02]
Communication work is in full compliance with UNDP corporate communication strategy and for GEF projects is in line with GEF Communication and Visibility Policy. In future project documents resources will be committed to have dedicated implementation actions in line with the above mentioned.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
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| 2.1 When developing project documents to be funded by the GEF, and other donors, a thorough communication strategy and needed resources will be included.
UNDP globally has the same project website template corporately for all projects, and within the given template, the Project Implementation Unit provides updates.
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2022/01/11] |
UNDP | 2021/12 | Completed | New UNDP supported GEF 7 proposal on International Waters has dedicated action and budget related to communication and Visibility Evidence: https://www.thegef.org/projects-operations/projects/10881 History |
3. Recommendation:
Evaluation recommendation 3.
The project has adopted a successful approach for engaging civil society. The use of citizen science techniques through brainstorming events has led to novel monitoring methods and have encouraged greater awareness on environment issues within civil society. The experiences of this approach should be clearly documented before the conclusion of the project to ensure there is wide (within Albania and more widely) awareness of these approaches.
Management Response: [Added: 2021/07/01] [Last Updated: 2021/08/02]
Dissemination of lessons learned has started with main partners and through small grants schema with civil society already implemented. A final report will be drafted and exchanged through networks with GEF and UNDP website and social media.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
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| 3.1 A report on lessons learned from the project will be developed by the PIU/UNDP focusing on success stories and replicability of these approaches.
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2022/01/11] |
UNDP | 2021/12 | Completed | Lessons Learned report completed part of the project closure documents History |