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

and speeding up or scaling-up change, which refer to the scope and the velocity of change.
To a certain degree, the defined categories can help to understand up to which stage a change process
has been progressed. Considering if these stages refer, for example, to a process of updating legal or
institutional frameworks, or of updating concepts and technologies for policy implementation (public
services) or of real changes occurring already on the ground affecting people’s lives, we can get a
clearer idea regarding how immediate CP strategies (advocacy, use of knowledge, partnerships, etc.)
are able to bring about a quick and sustainable change on the ground (impact).
Taking into consideration the concepts proposed in Box 4,the effectiveness of UNFPA CP
implementation can be re-assessed. Certainly, insights from this exercise also refer to effectiveness as an
impact.
RH-Strategies
For the implementation of the RH component in the Moldovan territory (excluding Transnistria) we can
find the strategy of Fuelling Change.Many of the RH activities are concentrating ontraining and capacity
building, frequently as well as a complementary activity for projects financed by other donors (for
example, in the emergency health sector where UNFPA builds upon WHO’s work). The strategy
frequently identifies existing activities where other donors provide the “hardware” (understood as a
necessary condition for change) and UNFPA provides the “software” (know-how, capacity building,
training) in order to create the required skills so that the existing hardware can be used accordingly, in
order to make the expected change happen.
For Transnistria, we can find an approach of Enabling Change. In Transnistria, given the absence of other
donors (in an early stage of the 2007-2011 period), the UNFPA concentrated on a strategy of Preparing
Change and later on Enabling Change. Even if there are no tangible results in the sense of legal or
institutional adjustments (given the special political status of Transnistria), it can clearly be seen that
UNFPA had to implement a complete process of Preparing, Enabling and Fuelling. Even if in the current
phase of implementation the element of capacity building (fuelling change) is the most visible, throughout
the complete programme cycle, UNFPA’s strategy in Transnistria focused mainly on Enabling Change.
P&D-Strategies
For the P&D component, we find a classic approach of building up from scratch, preparing change(green
book) and enabling change (population development department, demographic commission, and
demographic security strategy).This evaluation considers that the process shows a highly satisfactory
level of implementation so far, but the process has reached a bottleneck. Even if the strategy of
demographic security was approved, there is no clear picture regarding available resources and a feasible
strategy for its implementation. Additionally, even if a group of human resources already trained in
demographic issues (students having finished their masters degree in demographics supported by
UNFPA) does exist, these additional human resources might not be enough for a fruitful implementation.
Gender-Strategies
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