Reports - United Nations Development Programme

1. INTRODUCTION
Government, private sector, civil society, donors, UN and
IFIs. To validate and broaden observations made in
Ankara and I˚stanbul, the Team also made field visits to
projects in Diyarbakır and Mardin in Southeast Anatolia.
Following standard evaluation procedures developed
by the UNDP’s Evaluation Office for ADRs, the Team
drew on three major sources of information: perception,
validation, and documentation. This is in keeping with
the concept of ‘triangulation’, i.e. balancing perceptions
with other methods of corroboration. The evaluation
used various criteria (see Box 1.1) to assess results,
drawing on qualitative and quantitative information.
Unfortunately, the Team found that in the past, very few
external evaluations of UNDP programmes and projects
had been conducted in Turkey. As a result, the Team had
to carry out its own, albeit limited, assessment of projectlevel
effectiveness. Given the limited time and resources
available to the Team, these assessments were by necessity
of an impressionistic nature. Nonetheless, the Team
believes that its observations are broadly representative of
the effectiveness of the UNDP’s support and that the
recommendations contained in this Report can serve as a
useful input into the UNDP’s current strategic review and
planning process in Turkey.
BOX 1.1: CRITERIA FOR ASSESSING
THE UNDP’S PROGRAMME RESULTS
UNDP’s relevance and strategic role in national
development efforts
National ownership of UNDP programmes
Clear links of programmes to UNDP’s global strategic positioning
Strategic links between UNDP interventions and macroeconomic
policies, the MDGs and EU accession priorities
Strong scope for learning, replication and scaling-up of
projects and programmes
High quality (i.e. transparent, accountable and innovative)
partnerships
Positive contribution by the UNDP to national level policy
analysis, formulation and implementation processes
Positive contribution by the UNDP to capacity building for
sustainable human development
Timely and effective monitoring and evaluation of lessons
learned, including failures and lost opportunities
Strategic resource mobilisation, coordination and application
in programmes
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