"February 2013." Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-80).
Contents:
Executive summary -- Introduction -- National context and development challenges -- UNDP responses and strategies -- UNDP contributions to development results in Niger -- UNDP's contribution and positioning -- Conclusions and recommendations,
Summary:
Assessment of Development Results (ADR) are a core work area of the EO which independently and systematically assess progress around key UNDP interventions in countries receiving UNDP support. The ADR was conducted in collaboration with the Government of Niger in order to strengthen ownership of evaluation results by national partners and, consequently their credibility and utility. A Reference Group was set-up to oversee the process, with representatives from the Ministry of Planning, the UNDP Country Office and the Regional Office for Africa as main reference points. Partners from the Government, the National Statistics Institute (INS), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the European Union (EU), national and international NGOs, and the University Abdou Moumouni of Niamey also participated. The evaluation process was conducted by an independent regional and national team and guided by a professional evaluation manager in the EO. Through this mechanism, both the Government and the EO ensured that established norms and standards for evaluation, such as independence, impartiality and rigorous methodology, were followed. This approach helped the evaluation team collect inputs from a broad range of national partners, as well as from several recent reviews such as the mid-term country programme review and the review of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF), resulting in a report that is better rooted in the national reality, hence making it useful for national partners and UNDP in designing their future engagement with a better sense of UNDP's strategic direction. A workshop organized by the Ministry of Planning and hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was held at the end of November 2012. The meeting brought together more than 50 main stakeholders to discuss implementation of the evaluation's recommendations. The evaluation found that, in general, the UNDP programme has generated tangible results at both strategic and operational levels in the areas of governance, crisis prevention / management, environment and natural resources, poverty reduction, and promotion of United Nations values. Yet the country programme's ability to deliver in collaboration with its main partners, require strengthening as lengthy procedures cause implementation delays and risk to influence performance. They therefore must be addressed to further prepare Niger to face current chronic challenges such as poverty, food insecurity and climatic risk, as well as emerging challenges. The evaluation's conclusions and recommendations will help UNDP reflect on its effectiveness and strengthen its strategic position in Niger. The evaluation took stock of what worked, what did not and why in Niger over the past ten years and identifies potential roles that UNDP could play in the future. The EO sincerely hopes that this evaluation will support on-going and future efforts by UNDP to enhance its support to the Government of Niger, and other national partners, thereby increasing levels of human development for the people of Niger. We also hope that the study will inform UNDP's strategy more widely and that recommendations from the ADR will lead to management action and implementation. We believe that this evaluation was very time .
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