Reports - United Nations Development Programme

ANNEXE 1: TERMS OF REFERENCE
strategies, the 8th Five-Year Development Plan
(2001-2005), as well as priorities announced by the
new Government. The aim is to ascertain the added
value of UNDP support in effectively contributing to
and influencing national development through
strategic priority setting and intervening at optimal
entry points.
Assess how the UNDP has anticipated and
responded to significant changes in the national
development context within its core areas of focus. In
this regard, the ADR may, for example, consider key
events at the national and political levels that
influence and affect the development environment;
the risk management of UNDP; any missed
opportunities for UNDP involvement and
contribution; its efforts at advocacy and policy advice;
and the UNDP’s responsiveness. The evaluation
should bring out the choices made by the UNDP in
response to Government reforms and explain the
rationale behind these choices.
Review the synergies and alignment of UNDP
support with other initiatives and partners, including
that of the United Nations Development Assistance
Framework (UNDAF), the Global Cooperation
Framework (GCF) and the Regional Cooperation
Framework (RCF), as well as other non-UN partners
such as bilateral donors, EC and Bretton Woods
Institutions. This may include examining how
UNDP has leveraged its resources and that of others
towards the achievement of results, the balance
between upstream and downstream initiatives and the
work on MDGs.
The Evaluation should consider the influence of
systemic issues, i.e. policy and administrative
constraints affecting the programme, on both the
donor and programme country sides, as well as how
the development results achieved and the
partnerships established have contributed to ensure a
relevant and strategic positioning of UNDP support.
2. DEVELOPMENT RESULTS
Examine the effectiveness and sustainability of the
UNDP programme by: (a) highlighting main
achievements (outcomes) at the national level in the
last five years or so (some results have their origin in
efforts prior to 1998) and the UNDP’s contribution
to these in terms of key outputs; (b) ascertaining
progress made in achieving outcomes in the given
thematic areas of UNDP’s support. The evaluation
should qualify the UNDP contribution to the
outcomes with a fair degree of plausibility, and
consider anticipated and unanticipated, positive and
negative outcomes. It should also gauge the
contribution to capacity development at the national
level as well as the degree of national ownership and
sustainability of these results. The assessment will
cover the key results and support in all UNDP
thematic areas (governance, poverty, environment,
gender, HIV/AIDS, ICT) and any other areas
as appropriate.
Identify and analyse the main factors influencing
results, including the range and quality of
development partnerships forged and their
contribution to outcomes, the provision of upstream
assistance and policy advice and partnership strategy
and the positioning of the UNDP.
Assess the anticipated progress in achieving intended
outcomes against the benchmarks and indicators set
under the SRF outcomes (see Annexe 2), the CCF
objectives and proposed future programmes and,
where this is relevant, against the MDG targets.
Provide an in-depth analysis of the selected focus
areas, Local Governance and Capacity Building,
as well as Regional Disparities and Poverty, and
identify the key challenges and strategies for future
interventions in each area. These subjects have been
selected based on notable UNDP involvement in the
past, complexity in terms of inter-linkages and
synergies with other areas and the growing challenges
expected in the next stage of the country’s
development challenges.
3. LESSONS LEARNED AND GOOD PRACTICES
Identify key lessons in the thematic areas of focus and
in strategic positioning that can provide a useful basis
for strengthening UNDP support to the country and
for improving programme performance, results and
effectiveness in the future. Through in-depth
thematic assessment, identify good practices for
learning and replication and draw lessons from
intended and unintended results where possible.
D. Methodology
The assessment will employ a variety of methodologies
including desk reviews, stakeholder meetings, client
surveys, focus group interviews and select site visits. The
Evaluation Team will review national policy documents
(including the 8th Five-Year Development Plan 2001-
2005, the Pre-Accession Economic Development Plan as
well as other documents) that give an overall picture of
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