Independent Country Programme Evaluation: Maldives

2019

This report examines the relevance and strategic positioning of UNDP support and its contributions to the country’s development over the period of 2016 to 2020.

This evaluation found that UNDP has made some positive contributions towards meeting these challenges, but that it has struggled to gain traction, given the political instability that has characterized the recent programming period. There is now a good opportunity to build on lessons from past and current work in support of reforms that will be resilient across political cycles. In considering the appropriate locus of this support, UNDP should take care not to stretch its limited resources too thinly, to a point where it is unable to make a tangible difference in any single area.

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2010

This report examines the relevance and strategic positioning of UNDP support and its contributions to the country’s development from 2003 to 2010, covering two country programmes.

The evaluation found that in the past six years UNDP in the Maldives has coped with two major transformational events: the 2004 tsunami and the changes in political system. It concludes that UNDP has been particularly effective in its support at the policy level, especially in the area of governance, but less so at the atoll and island level. Gender equality and youth remain major areas requiring effective support while capacity development is the most significant barrier to sustained progress The evaluation states that UNDP country programme would achieve more with fewer interventions and a more strategic approach while taking into account the main barriers of weak policy and weak capacity.

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