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Assessment of Development Results: Cambodia
| Commissioning Unit: | Independent Evaluation Office |
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| Evaluation Plan: | 2009-2013 |
| Evaluation Type: | ICPE/ADR |
| Completion Date: | 06/2010 |
| Unit Responsible for providing Management Response: | Cambodia
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| Documents Related to overall Management Response: |
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Key Action Update History
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1. Recommendation: To enhance the effectiveness of its flagship
programmes on democratization and
decentralization, UNDP needs to change
its approach towards civil society, strengthening
it with a view to developing capacities
of Cambodian citizens. A two-pronged
approach is suggested: nurturing independent
civil society organizations with financial
and technical support so that they can carry
out the essential function of social mobilization;
and encouraging reforms that can
create the democratic space in which an
independent civil society can flourish.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/09/08] [Last Updated: 2010/10/12]
Agreed
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In the next Country Programme, UNDP will focus on strengthening capacity of CSOs to enable them to play their social mobilization role for marginalized groups, with a special focus on youth and women organizations. UNDP will ensure more systematic participation of CSOs in local decision making and interaction with Local Government. UNDP will provide micro grants to NGOs supporting the UNDP programme areas.
[Added: 2010/10/12] [Last Updated: 2011/12/29] |
Governance Cluster | 2011/12 | Completed | Strengthening democratic programme aims to support the interface between elected representative government, citizen, and civil society have been approved and is being implemented. ACCESS programme is being finalized to support the local government associations and their roles in supporting elected council. |
2. Recommendation: UNDP needs more confidence in the
viability of community-based conservation
of fishing resources in the Tonle Sap region
as well as elsewhere in Cambodia and should
devise institutional structures that can forge
the link between conservation and livelihood
more effectively.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/09/08] [Last Updated: 2010/10/12]
Partially agreed
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNDP will seek partnership with Ministry of Environment and Fisheries Administration (MAFF) to integrate livelihoods development into national policies, strategies, and programmes by drawing lessons from successful cases from UNDP conservation projects.
[Added: 2010/10/12] [Last Updated: 2013/03/20] |
Environment and Energy Cluster | 2014/12 | Overdue-Initiated | Through CCBAP, UN-REDD (development REDD strategy for Fishery sector) and CCCA projects. |
3. Recommendation: To better integrate livelihood concerns into
conservation projects, UNDP should forge
partnerships with other agencies, which, like
UNDP, are concerned primarily with human
lives and livelihoods while pursuing environmental
objectives.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/09/08] [Last Updated: 2010/10/12]
Agreed
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNDP CO has forged partnership with Danida's livelihood programme to promote sustainable forest management by integrating community based forestry management and livelihood improvement.
[Added: 2010/10/12] [Last Updated: 2013/03/20] |
Environment & Energy Cluster | 2015/03 | Overdue-Initiated | Partnership with Sweden on CCBAP and GEF, and with International NGOs on SFM projects. |
4. Recommendation: UNDP should introduce a more explicit
pro-poor bias into its poverty reduction
programme. One suggestion is for UNDP
to take pro-poor projects, such as those
under the Growing Sustainable Business
Initiative, more seriously than it has done
so far. In particular, it should integrate
the Growing Sustainable Business Initiative
more substantively into the mainstream
trade project (or its successors), and seek
collaboration with other development
partners (including non-governmental
organizations) so that successful pilots under
the initiative can be scaled up to more
substantial projects.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/09/08] [Last Updated: 2010/10/12]
Partially agreed
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The next CPAP 2011 - 2015 will include explicit pro-poor bias in the Country Programe and more specifically within the poverty reduction programme. The two pro-poor programmes include: i) localizing of MDGs by influencing pro-poor decision making and budgeting at sub-national level; and, ii) Local Economic Development.
[Added: 2010/10/12] [Last Updated: 2011/12/26] |
Poverty Reduction Cluster | 2011/12 | Completed | 1-Linking Policy and Practice for accelerating MDG1 project is being implemented. 2-NSPP/MDG Monitoring Support Programme is being implemented. |
5. Recommendation: To accelerate poverty reduction, UNDP
should engage more in agricultural and rural
development activities, preferably by entering
into collaboration with other development
partners who have traditionally been more
engaged in these sectors in Cambodia.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/09/08] [Last Updated: 2010/10/12]
Partially Agreed
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| To address climate change vulnerability of poor farmers, UNDP has established partnership with IFAD to promote climate change resilience in agriculture and water resource sector through IFAD agricultural programme.
[Added: 2010/10/12] [Last Updated: 2013/03/20] |
Environment & Energy Cluster | 2011/06 | Completed | IFAD/Rulip programme integrate CC adaptation into transforming field scale. - NAPA follow-up piloted community Based livelihood and resilience in 6 communes. - SGP supports CCBAB and livelihood in 160 villages, 18 provinces. | |
| UNDP CO has also developed partnership with IFAD to promote rural livelihood improvement through piloting of deconcentration and devolution of functions from MAFF to sub-national administrations.
[Added: 2010/10/12] [Last Updated: 2013/03/20] |
Environment & Energy Cluster | 2012/12 | Completed | UNDP has involved in the development IFAD new country strategy. Also, UNDP piloted project on climate change adaption in water and agriculture sector has been generating lessons learnt and good practices have been taken forward by IFAD new supported programme. |
6. Recommendation: UNDP should exploit the potential
synergies among its programme areas to the
fullest. One suggestion is to link the local
governance structure that it supports with the
community-based natural resource management
for sustainable livelihood and some
of the pro-poor projects (including possible
work on agriculture and rural development).
Management Response: [Added: 2010/09/08] [Last Updated: 2010/10/12]
Agreed
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNDP CO will use the newly established local government structure to integrate climate change and community based natural resource management concerns in local planning process
[Added: 2010/10/12] [Last Updated: 2013/03/20] |
Environment & Energy Cluster | 2012/12 | Completed | Under CCCA programme in collaborating with UNCDR a piloted project to top-up climate change fund to the commune/Sangkat funds using the national treasury system has been successfully implemented and replicated to other areas. |
7. Recommendation: UNDP successfully involves other development
partners at the stage of execution and
implementation of projects, but it needs to
do more to ensure cooperation at the stage
of project design in order to enhance the
effectiveness and efficiency of outcomes.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/09/08] [Last Updated: 2010/10/12]
Agreed
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNDP is engaging DPs systematically in its new progammes being formulated (i.e. climate change programme; decentralization programme; sustainable forest management)
[Added: 2010/10/12] [Last Updated: 2011/12/26] |
Environment & Energy Cluster; Governance cluster | 2014/12 | Overdue-Initiated | Partnership with Sida, Danida and EU on CCCA project. With Sida on CCBAP and GEF and International NGOs on SFM project. |
8. Recommendation: UNDP needs to do more to bridge the
conceptual divide among its partners in
decentralization projects, helping RGC
devise an efficient system for combining
governance reform with service delivery.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/09/08] [Last Updated: 2010/10/12]
Agreed
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNDP supported the drafting of the UN positioning note on D&D reform that reconciles service delivery and democratic concerns. The new UNDP programme gives equal weight to strengthening capacity to maximize efficiency in service delivery and participation
[Added: 2010/10/12] [Last Updated: 2011/12/29] |
Governance Cluster | 2011/12 | Completed | Through SDP and ACCESS Programme |
9. Recommendation: Despite the existence of an elaborate structure
of aid coordination in Cambodia, several
critical parts of this structure?in particular, the Government Donor Coordination Committee
and Technical Working Groups?
have not functioned well in the recent past.
UNDP could play a more active role in
revitalizing these parts, making use of the
goodwill it enjoys among both donor and
government circles by virtue of the seminal
role it has played in supporting aid coordination
in Cambodia.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/09/08] [Last Updated: 2010/10/12]
Agreed
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under the new CPAP, UNDP will strengthen central and sector Government leadership over aid management through targeted support to the best performing PBAs and strengthening of the Joint Monitoring Indicators (JMIs) mechanism. UNDP will play a lead role in TWG - Gender, de-mining, climate change, and D&D to promote PBAs. The DP-Government Cambodia Development Cooperation Forum will transition into a Cambodia Development Forum with full engagement of private sector. UNDP will support CDC take a lead role in promoting South-South cooperation.
[Added: 2010/10/12] [Last Updated: 2011/12/26] |
Poverty Cluster | 2011/12 | Completed | Partnership for Development Results is being implemented. |
10. Recommendation: To enhance UNDP ability to offer imaginative
ideas quickly in response to changing
country needs, it should restore the flexibility
and quick response ability of the Insight for
Action Initiative, which has been missing in
the recent past.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/09/08] [Last Updated: 2010/10/12]
Agreed
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNDP recognizes the need to maintain its ability to be responsive to the changing country needs. At the same time it has been recognized that the policy support extended needs to be strategic with a long term vision and in line with the UNDP CPAP. In response, the CO has formulated a development policy initiative project under the Poverty cluster (a successor to the IFA)
[Added: 2010/10/12] [Last Updated: 2011/12/26] |
Poverty Cluster & DPI | 2011/12 | Completed | The initial DPI concept has been expended to the LPP focused at the 3 levels: 1) priority policies and sectors for inclusive growth and human development, 2) Institutional capacity development of selected sector, and 3) support to scaling up effective local community based income generation practice. |
11. Recommendation: To enhance effectiveness and efficiency across
the spectrum of outcomes, UNDP should
move faster towards the programme-based
approach from the conventional projectoriented
approach.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/09/08] [Last Updated: 2010/10/12]
Agreed
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under the new CPAP, UNDP will align to existing Programme Based Approach and advocate with other development partners to support PBA modalities in a number of sectors: D&D; de-mining; climate change; gender; etc.
[Added: 2010/10/12] [Last Updated: 2011/12/29] |
All Clusters | 2011/12 | Completed | EE cluster completed through CCCA and UN-REDD Programme. Governance cluster completed through PGE. Poverty cluster completed through PFDR project. |
12. Recommendation: UNDP Cambodia should, for the sake of
greater efficiency and impact, make a systematic
attempt to convert the pilot initiatives
into larger-scale activities and seek out
partners through whom the scaling up can
be achieved.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/09/08] [Last Updated: 2010/10/12]
Agreed
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Systematic attempt will be made to scale up successful pilot initiatives by seeking out partnerships. For example, the best practices generated through the Access to Justice project will be scaled up by other development partners. The outputs of the Trade Project will serve as a basis for WB funded Trust Fund with Ministry of Commerce.
[Added: 2010/10/12] [Last Updated: 2011/12/29] |
Governance Cluster | 2011/12 | Completed | Through DDLG project |
13. Recommendation: To promote sustainability of outcomes,
UNDP should make greater effort to
separate technical support from capacity
building support and find innovative ways
of combining the two in a synergistic rather
than competitive relationship.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/09/08] [Last Updated: 2010/10/12]
Agreed
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under the new programme, UNDP will prioritise capacity development of a limited number of national counterparts for a long term engagement. The approach will include a gradual phasing out of TA , supported by solid M&E, using systematic capacity assessments to establish baseline to prepare a CD plan.
[Added: 2010/10/12] [Last Updated: 2011/03/03] |
All Clusters and UNDP Senior Management | 2015/12 | Overdue-Initiated | ||
| UNDP will design a more holistic package of capacity development interventions that includes both technical and "functional" (management) skills to enable organisations to deliver their mandate effectively.
[Added: 2010/10/12] [Last Updated: 2011/02/27] |
All Clusters and UNDP Senior Management | 2015/12 | Overdue-Initiated | ||
| South-South cooperation will be integrated as an integral part of UNDP's approach to capacity development to provide solutions that are more contextualised, demand-led, responsive, flexible, cost-effective and sustainable for Cambodia.
[Added: 2010/10/12] [Last Updated: 2011/02/27] |
All Clusters and UNDP Senior Management | 2015/12 | Overdue-Initiated |
14. Recommendation: UNDP should further strengthen its
effort to mainstream gender in the work
of sectoral ministries, and the UNCT
that assists sectoral ministries should also
mainstream gender in their work across the
board. UNCT in Cambodia should seriously
consider appointing a senior gender coordinator,
preferably located at the office of the
UN Resident Coordinator, so as to achieve
more effective coordination of gender-related
activities across UN organizations.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/09/08] [Last Updated: 2010/10/12]
Agreed & partially agreed
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two-pronged approach will be pursued in mainstreaming gender: 1) strategic support to policy, coordination and implementation capacity of the government, and 2) incorporation of gender-related objectives into all key UNDP programmes.
i) Strategic support for gender mainstreaming: Targeted assistance will be provided to implement Gender Mainstreaming Action Plans (GMAPs) of selected line ministries (e.g. State Secretariat for Civil Service, Office of Council Minister, Ministry of Economic and Finance, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Land Management, Urbanization and Construction, National Institute of Statistic).Support will be provided for strengthening of Government's M&E capacity to monitor progress in a coherent and systematic manner at both sectoral and national level.
ii) integrating gender-related objectives in UNDP programmes: Gender equality objectives will be integrated across the proposed country programme through addressing participation of women in politics and decision-making at national level and sub-national level; through mainstreaming gender in climate change and environment; and, through supporting gender based analysis in the design of economic governance reform.
[Added: 2010/10/12] [Last Updated: 2012/06/21] |
All Clusters | 2012/12 | Completed | - Gender Responsive Policy (PGE) - UNDP Gender Mainstreaming Strategy (UNDP). | |
| The recommendation has been discussed at the UNCT meeting. This function will be performed by the Representative of the UN Women, an entity which was established in June 2010. The Secretariat of the UN Women will provide the necessary support to the UNCT.
[Added: 2010/10/12] |
UN Women | 2010/06 | Completed |