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Title:

Assessment of development results : evaluation of UNDP contribution. C©þte d'lvoire.

Publisher:

United Nations Development ProgrammeEvaluation Office,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

xx, 113 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Subject:

United Nations Development Programme (C©þte d'lvoire)--Evaluation.
Programme des Nations Unies pour le d©♭veloppement en R©♭publique de C©þte d'Ivoire--Evaluation.
Economic development projects--C©þte d'Ivoire--Evaluation.
C©þte d'Ivoire--Economic conditions.
C©þte d'Ivoire--Social conditions.

Other Authors:

United Nations Development Programme. Evaluation Office.

Notes:

"February 2013." Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-96).

Contents:

Executive summary -- Introduction -- National context and development challenges -- UNDP responses and strategies -- UNDP's contribution to development results in C©þte d'Ivoire -- Strategic positioning of UNDP -- Conclusions and recommendations.

Summary:

The Assessment of Development Results (ADR) as a core area of the work of the Evaluation Office (EO) seeks to independently and systematically assess progress around key United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) interventions in countries which receive UNDP support. This ADR was conducted in collaboration with the Government of C©þte d'Ivoire with a view to strengthening ownership of evaluation results by national partners, and consequently its credibility and utility. For this purpose and to oversee the process, a reference group was set up with participants from the Ministry of State for Planning and Development, the Country Office and Regional Office for Africa as main reference points and included other government ministries, the National Statistics Institute, United Nations Population Fund, the European Union, and members of the civil society and non-government organizations.
The process was conducted by an independent national team and guided by a professional evaluation manager from 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 also helped the evaluation team gather contributions from a wide range of national partners as well as from various activities that have been recently carried out, such as the report entitled "Repositioning UNDP in C©þte d'Ivoire (2011-2013)", drawn up in 2011, and the "Joint Review of the Priority Plan for C©þte d'Ivoire" by DPKO, PBSO, DPA and UNDP, written in September 2009. The result is a report that closely mirrors the national situation and is therefore of greater use to our national partners and UNDP itself, in view of a future commitment that is more focused towards informing a strategic direction for UNDP.
The evaluation showed that generally, and despite a context of political instability that has persisted since 2000, the UNDP programme has succeeded in achieving tangible results at both strategic and operational levels in all areas of intervention, including poverty reduction, crisis prevention and recovery and promoting the values of the United Nations. However, administrative procedures must be reviewed as they are cumbersome and delay operational implementation, making it difficult to implement work plans within required timeframes and consequently placing expected outcomes at risk. UNDP must focus its support so as to prepare C©þte d'Ivoire to face not only its chronic challenges such as poverty, food insecurity and climate issues, but also the emerging challenges, those that will allow it to recover the stability needed to continue its development.
The conclusions and recommendations from this study help UNDP to reflect on its effectiveness and strengthen its strategic position in C©þte d'Ivoire. Having provided the opportunity to take stock of what worked, what did not and why over the past 11 years, this study recommends the roles that UNDP could play in the future. The Evaluation Office sincerely hopes that this evaluation will support ongoing and future efforts by UNDP to enhance its support to the Government of C©þte d'Ivoire and other national partners towards achievement of ever increasing levels of human development for the people of C©þte d'Ivoire. We also hope that the study will inform UNDP's strategy more widely and that the recommendations from the ADR will lead to management action and implementation.

Series:

The ADR series

ISBN:

9211263549
9789211263541

OCLC:

(OCoLC)828670970

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)