EVALUATION PLAN FORM

EVALUATION PLAN FORM

SAMPLE OF A COMPLETED EVALUATION PLAN AT THE COUNTRY LEVEL

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EVALUATION PLAN

UNDP Country Office, Devland, 1998-2000

Highlights of the Country Cooperation Framework (CCF)

The first CCF for Devland covers the period 1997-2001. It supports national development priorities as established in the country's five-year development plan for the same period as well as the UNDP mandate to promote SHD. The CCF focuses on two thematic areas: poverty eradication and governance. Specifically, the CCF aims to contribute to the Government's efforts to:

• reduce the incidence of poverty from 10 per cent of the population to 5 per cent by 2001, and

• strengthen the capacity for local development administration, particularly at the provincial level.

The most important interventions supported by UNDP are:

• demonstration projects aimed at showing the effectiveness of participatory approaches to poverty eradication in selected poor areas of the national capital region and the southern region of the country, and

• demonstration projects under the national pilot programme for strengthening the financial autonomy of provincial governments.

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Indicators for Monitoring and Evaluation and the Collection of Data

Two of the key indicators for assessing the major UNDP interventions under the CCF, based on the UNDP core indicators for its areas of thematic focus, are:

• a reduction in the percentage of the population living below the poverty line, by gender, in the areas where demonstration projects on poverty eradication are being implemented

• an increase in the revenues of provincial governments in the demonstration areas.

The Government has agreed to the use of these indicators.

Based on these indicators, the following time-series data will be collected:

• number (gender disaggregated) of people living below the poverty line each year from 1996 to 2003 for the national capital region and the southern region

• total annual revenue of the provincial government in each of the demonstration areas for each year from 1996 to 2003.

Baseline data were constructed prior to the start of the implementation of the demonstration projects mentioned above. Similar data are being collected during implementation; collection will also continue once the projects have been completed. These data will serve as inputs to future evaluations.

Funding Sources for the Evaluations

Costs of individual programme and project evaluations will be charged against their respective budgets.

The cost of the thematic evaluation will also be charged against the budgets of the individual programmes and projects to be included in that evaluation.

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Programme/Project Number and Title	Budget ($000s)	Year Approved	Schedule				Type of Evaluation (By agent, timing and scope)
Programme/Project Number and Title	Budget ($000s)	Year Approved	1st Qtr.	2nd Qtr.	3rd Qtr.	4th Qtr.	Type of Evaluation (By agent, timing and scope)
Mandatory Evaluations
DEV/96/004 - Development of the National Capital Region (as part of the cluster evaluation listed under non-mandatory evaluations)	2,000	1996
DEV/96/005 - Development of the Southern Region (as part of the cluster evaluation listed under non-mandatory evaluations)	2,000	1996
DEV/96/001 - Gender-responsive Development Planning at the Local Level	1,500	1996	x				External; terminal; project
DEV/94/001 - Water Supply and Sanitation Management in Marginal Settlements	3,000	1994	x				External; ex post; project
DEV/95/011 - Rural Transport	2,000	1995		x			External; ex post; project

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Programme/Project Number and Title	Budget ($000s)	Year Approved	Schedule				Type of Evaluation (By agent,timing and scope)
Programme/Project Number and Title	Budget ($000s)	Year Approved	1st Qtr.	2nd Qtr.	3rd Qtr.	4th Qtr.	Type of Evaluation (By agent,timing and scope)
Non-mandatory Evaluations
Cluster evaluation of demonstration projects on poverty eradication: DEV/96/004 - Development of the National Capital Region (Note: This programme is subject to mandatory evaluation.) DEV/96/005 - Development of the Southern Region (Note: This programme is subject to mandatory evaluation.) DEV/97/006 - Assistance to Food Self-Sufficiency DEV/97/007 - Development of Small and Medium Enterprises DEV/97/008 - Strengthening Women's Organizations at the Grass-roots Level	2,000 2,000 800 800 750	1996 1996 1997 1997 1997			x	x	external; for timing, see the individual projects listed below; thematic terminal terminal mid-term mid-term mid-term

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UNDP Country Office, Devland, 1999

Programme/Project Number and Title	Budget ($000s)	Year Approved	Schedule				Type of Evaluation (By agent, timing and scope)
			1st Qtr.	2nd Qtr.	3rd Qtr.	4th Qtr.
Mandatory Evaluations
Cluster evaluation of the following projects: DEV/97/001 - Assessment of Fiscal Administration Capacities of Selected Provincial Governments DEV/97/002 - Strengthening the Ministry of Local Governments DEV/97/003 - Improving the Financial Autonomy of Selected Provincial Governments	1,500 2,000 4,000	1997 1997 1997		x	x		External; for timing, see the individual projects listed below; thematic terminal mid-term mid-term

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UNDP Country Office, Devland, 1999

Programmes/Projects	Budget ($000s)	Year Approved	Schedule				Type of Evaluation (By agent, timing and scope)
			1st Qtr.	2nd Qtr.	3rd Qtr.	4th Qtr.
Non-mandatory Evaluations
DEV/96/010 - Research and Development in Agriculture	900	1996	x				External; terminal; project

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Programmes/Projects	Budget ($000s)	Year Approved	Schedule				Type of Evaluation (By agent, timing and scope)
			1st Qtr.	2nd Qtr.	3rd Qtr.	4th Qtr.
Mandatory Evaluations
Evaluation of technical cooperation provided to an institution for ten years through the following projects: DEV/96/008 - Strengthening the Regional Offices of the Ministry of Social Services and Development DEV/90/001 - Administrative Decentralization in the Ministry of Social Services and Development DEV/87/002 - Reorganizing the Ministry of Social Welfare into the Ministry of Social Services and Development DEV/86/007 - Organizational Study of the Ministry of Social Welfare	4,000 1,000 2,000 500	1996 1990 1987 1986	x	x			By agent: external. By timing: The evaluation of technical cooperation cannot be classified either as mid-term, terminal or ex post. It is to be conducted after a ten-year period of technical cooperation to an institution. By scope: Strictly speaking, the evaluation is neither a project, sectoral, thematic, nor a programme evaluation. In a sense, however, it may be considered a project evaluation, with "project" interpreted as a set of successive initiatives with the objective of strengthening the capacity of an institution.

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Programme/Project Number and Title	Budget ($000s)	Year Approved	Schedule				Type of Evaluation (By agent, timing and scope)
			1st Qtr.	2nd Qtr.	3rd Qtr.	4th Qtr.
Non-mandatory Evaluation
DEV/98/001 - Revising the Local Government Code	800	1998			x