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

• Developapositionandclearstrategytoworkwithcivilsocietyasacomplementtonational
programmesandinanefforttoreachmarginalizedpopulations
o Engaging civil society can potentially help to improve outreach and quality of services
faster as well a to better identify vulnerable groups at local level and thus help to achieve
their inclusion
o Additionally, the UNDAF evaluation of early 2011 showed that the System of United
Nations as a whole lack a clear and common understanding how civil society should be
addressed in the country and what would be their role in cooperating with UN. A clear
definition of the relationship and roles would help to improve the efficiency and
effectiveness of the cooperation.
• Enhance monitoring and evaluation as well as Results Based Management capacities of
implementing partners
o The experience of the monitoring system for commodity security showed clearly the
importance of such a system, as well as the difficulties from government side to
implement such a system without donor support. This is only one example for the lack of
monitoring and RBM.
o The achievement of both of these objectives would help to make the cooperation with
implementing partners more effective and hence increase their potential impact
o Since UNFPA Moldova depends heavily on non-UNFPA resources, an improvement of
these capacities in implementing partners would facilitate fundraising and would make it
more sustainable since a better reporting of achievements would be possible
• Ensure competitive working conditions in the UNFPA CO in order to avoid staff turnover
RH component
• Continue supporting commodity security in kind but also with technical support for identifying
correctly vulnerable groups, which receive contraceptives free of charge and with a continuous
advocacy with the GoM regarding their responsibility for commodity security. Currently the share
of responsibility GoM assumes in this field is still small. UNFPA should continue supporting the
country until government’s share is big enough, to allow UNFPA’s withdraw of without putting
the achieved commodity security at a high risk.
• For capacity building in RH, consider also addressing demand side problems (behavioural
change), especially for vulnerable groups, since only addressing the capacity of service delivery is
not sufficient for influencing all causes of exclusion
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