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

adapted to the environment in which they have been implemented; they would otherwise not have been
successful. The UNFPA CO management and team have been able to select for each component the
adequate intervention strategy and have been able to adapt them to the circumstance. One example here
can be the change of strategy for LSBE from its inclusion in the teaching curricula to peer-to-peer
education.
UNFPA MOLDOVA has adjusted its programme modalities and interventions to the internal UN reform
process, which seeks for a closer cooperation between different UN agencies. Through the UNDAF, as a
planning and coordination framework, a joint programming and deeper coordination is encouraged in
Moldova. Immediately since the beginning of the first CP cycle in 2007, UNFPA has beeninvolved in
joint activities together with WHO (in emergency medicine, in the training health cabinet staff and in
commodity security), together with UNICEF and WHO (YFHS) and together with UNDP, UNICEF, ILO
and UN Women (Joint Programme for Capacity Building in the generation of development statistics) is
supported. Given that UNFPA has a considerably small budget framework, working together with other
agencies in joint programming helps UNFPA to achieve results, which would not have been achieved if
UNFPA were acting alone. The success in the R&D component, for example, benefited clearly from the
joint programme on statistics, since this programme helped to provide the necessary information for
putting together the Green Book on Population, and consequently the demographic security strategy.
Ensuring commodity security is clearly more successful since it can build on the WHO supported health
cabinets and improvements in the gender component regarding the legislation and state intervention in
domestic violence shows clear synergies with the high level of attention and programmatic support
provided to the sector of human rights by UNDP and UNHCR.
6.3 Effectiveness and Efficiency
Finding 3: Effectiveness
The UNFPA CP implementation was highly effective. Three out of five quantitative targets have
been fully achieved while one (LSBE) continues to record concrete and substantial progress and
one, i.e. the commodity security, has not been fully achieved. This is however not the result of a lack
of capacity or commitment on the part of UNFPA but rather the result of circumstances entirely
beyond the graspof UNFPA, which made the objective of ensuring national commodity security
difficult to achieve
Finding 4: Efficiency
Despite the many structural and administrative constraints that could have significantly affected
internal efficiency and restricted the margins of operations of the UNFPA CO team, the
implementation of activities has been efficient from all perspectives. This suggests that addressing
the structural and administrative weaknesses would enable the CO to better meet the programme
delivery requirements
6.3.1 Effectiveness
Effectiveness measures if products and services delivered by the programme’s implementation have
helped to achieve the expected targets and thus move forward towards the expected outcomes. Table
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