Management Response Detail

Millennium Village Programme Final Evaluation

Commissioning Unit:	Mozambique
Evaluation Plan:	2010-2011
Evaluation Type:	Project
Completion Date:	06/2013
Unit Responsible for providing Management Response:	Mozambique
Documents Related to overall Management Response:

1. Recommendation: A careful selection of interventions is recommended, based on prioritising those that will lead to greater sustainability and integration into the local development agenda.

Management Response: [Added: 2014/04/01]

The project is closed. The CO will take this recommendation into consideration for its future planning of similar interventions and will be available to provide its expertise to the IP and future partners as needed.

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2. Recommendation: A specific focus should be placed on the further strengthening of the local committees through capacity-building efforts in planning and monitoring and leadership.

Management Response: [Added: 2014/04/01]

The project is closed. The CO will take this recommendation into consideration for its future planning of similar interventions.

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3. Recommendation: We recommend the provision of on-going training to programme staff in order to enhance its capacity to include gender into all programme areas.

Management Response: [Added: 2014/04/01]

The project is closed. The CO will take this recommendation into consideration for its future planning of similar interventions.

Key Actions:

4. Recommendation: Project management?s successes with building partnerships at different levels should be pursued in the second phase, with a specific view to creating permanent partnerships at the local level, to ensure alternative sources of support when the MVP resources dry up. Essential partners at district level are government institutions that have a mandate in the areas of agricultural extension, and the provision of education and health services. Strategic partnerships should also involve civil society and private sector entities that may benefit from implementing activities, either commercial or social in well-organised communities.

Management Response: [Added: 2014/04/01]

The project is closed and no second phase is foreseen. However the country office will always be open to advise the IPs on these issues and will take this recommendation into consideration for its future planning of similar interventions.

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5. Recommendation: We recommend that this work be continued and intensified, through the development of partnerships with social media channels such as television programmes, radio programmes and newspaper articles. The PVM website should be updated, and used as an important information sharing tool. Lessons learned should be documented for wider dissemination.

Management Response: [Added: 2014/04/01]

The project is closed and no second phase is foreseen. The CO will take this recommendation into consideration and improve the knowledge management and communication in future projects.

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6. Recommendation: We strongly recommend that a proper baseline survey be conducted, which can provide clear data on which to build benchmarks and target indicators, to help the internal monitoring of project progress during the second phase, and a secure base for an external final impact evaluation.

Management Response: [Added: 2014/04/01]

The project has been closed and no second phase is foreseen. The CO will take this recommendation into consideration its future planning exercises.

Key Actions:

7. Recommendation: A gender profile of the MVs should be done at the beginning of the 2nd cycle so that there is data to monitor where the changes are occurring and if they are due to the MVP. A revision of the M&E tools is recommended in order to include gender sensitive information (including sex-disaggregated information), which inform on how the programme is contributing to gender equality.