Strategic stakeholder involvement

In a changing situation of governance and project oversight, review of stakeholders must take into account the role that each stakeholder was to fulfil during project design. By analysing the roles, it is crucial for effective project implementation to substitute as many players in order to fit the roles based upon which the project was designed

Monitoring of site visits

The monitoring and evaluation practises of UNDP-GEF projects would benefit from introducing a system for reporting on site visits. This would promote information exchange among the team members and project stakeholders and provide an effective way to track progress, underline obstacles and mobilize intervention, if required from UNDP and/or other stakeholders

Communication

Communication strategies can be more effective if they encompass not only public awareness raising in a general sense, but provide a clear analysis and strategy (set of actions) for communicating project developments to key partners, stakeholders and interest groups

GIS-based planning

With further dissemination of the development of land management plans, the technical issues related to their elaboration are important. The issue of open data, which would allow municipalities access to data important for their planning is a significant one. Open data could make the process less costly and more general expertise. It would also be favourable to continue the current discussions around the technical aspect of the territorial and urbanization plans -- combined with open data, the introduction of GIS approach for planning could, in the long run, lower the costs of development and maintenance of management plans. This, however, would probably require change in legislation as well as initial support to increase the capacities of planners in GIS-based planning.

Replication of activities

Another result which was highly appreciated by interested parties and which should be further introduced in other territories, especially nature sites (Ramsar sites currently being formed and those protected areas planned in the future) is the development of passports, more detailed information and respective monitoring of species

Final event

The project is planning a final seminar which is to include government officials, land planners. The seminar should be expanded, or the project should consider conducting a series of seminars to use the opportunity to strengthen the sustainability of the project and further disseminate the best practises. The evaluators suggest this may be especially useful in terms of involving people directly involved in enforcement, perhaps even developing a separate training event.