Country Programme (2007-2011/2012) evaluation - UNFPA Moldova

through questions to interview partners and based on the thematic and country specific knowledge of the
national evaluator.
Limitations
The evaluators have not faced major logisticallimitations during the implementation of this evaluation.
Access to all stakeholders and counterparts has been assured, as well as to documentation and guidance
from the UNFPA country and regional office was comprehensive. However, the evaluators felt an
important limitation considering the extension of the evaluation of only 15 working days for two
consultants, considering the ambitious TORs and the scope of the exercise. UNFPA justifies these
limitations with budget constraints. Regarding the implementation of the exercise,the evaluators feel that
the field mission for data collection was too short. Fortunately no evaluation questions or thematic areas
of the evaluation had to be left out, but even if all necessary stakeholders have been met, several meetings
were held with an important number of participants, so they rather resembled more of a focus group
meeting than individual interviews. Regarding the collection of information and stakeholders’ opinions,
important details might have been lost as a result. A longer field mission would have allowed an even
deeper and better analysis then the one presented in this report. It would have allowed for a higher
number of individual meetings and would have allowed to go into more details, since frequently an
important amounts of the limited time for meetings was additionally lost because of the need of
translation from Moldovan or Russian to English and vice versa. To reduce the loss of time as far as
possible evaluators opted frequently for simultaneous translation.
5. Purpose, scope, objectives and key questions of the evaluation
5.1 Purpose
The purposeofthis evaluation is to assess the achievementsof
theCountryProgramme’sdevelopmentinterventions,thefactorsthatfacilitated or hindered
achievement,andtocompilelessonslearned toinform thedevelopmentofthenextcountry programme cycle
(2012-2016).Inaddition,theevaluationshallderive
recommendations,goodpracticesandlessons
learnedfrommeasuringthe achievements,outputsandoutcomesproducedbytheprogramme.The evaluation
alsohighlights UNFPA’s comparative advantage and makesrecommendations on
alternativecostefficientstrategiestobe usedbyimplementingpartnersandUNFPAinplanningthenext
countryprogrammeforUNFPAsupportwithinthenextUNDAF.
5.2 Scope
Regarding its scope, the evaluation covers the period2007tothe present, regarding all three
programmecomponents,
(a)reproductivehealth;(b)populationand
development;and(c)gender.Humanrights,reproductive rights,advocacyandbehavioural change
communication(BCC) beingcrosscuttingissues are also addressed. The assessment refers to
activities implemented in Moldova, including Transnistria. The data collection field mission for this
evaluation was implemented from July 19 to July 26. A total of 24 meetings and interviews were carried
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