GEF Impact Evaluation of the Phase-Out of Ozone-Depleting Substances in Countries with Economies in Transition
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65338 v2 GEF Evaluation Office GEF IMPACT EVALUATION Public Disclosure Authorized GEF IMPACT EVALUATION Public Disclosure Authorized Impact Evaluation Information Document No. 18 GEF Impact Evaluation of the Phase-Out of Ozone-Depleting Substances in Countries with Economies in Transition. Volume Two: Country Reports Public Disclosure Authorized October 2009 Public Disclosure Authorized This paper is an input into the GEF Evaluation Office (GEF EO) program of Impact Evaluation. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of GEF Evaluation Office, the GEF Council, or the Governments they represent. The papers in the Impact Evaluation information document series are: 1. Approach Paper to GEF Impact Evaluation – Brann and Todd 2. Final Report on Proposed Approach to GEF Impact Evaluation - Foundations of Success 3. GEF Biodiversity Policy Review - Foundations of Success 4. Methodological Challenges in Impact Evaluation: The Case of the Global Environment Facility – Todd and Vaessen 5. Priorities and indicators for Global Environment Benefits from Biodiversity: The current international architecture – Nair 6. Case Study Methodology – Conservation Development Centre 7. Case Study: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and Mgahinga Gorilla National Park Conservation Project - Conservation Development Centre 8. Case Study: Lewa Wildlife Conservancy – Conservation Development Centre 9. Case Study: Reducing Biodiversity Loss at Cross-Border Sites in East Africa Conservation Development Centre 10. Impacts of Creation and Implementation of National Parks and of Support to Batwa on their Livelihoods, Well-Being and Use of Forest Products – Namara 11. Protected Areas and Avoided Deforestation: A Statistical Evaluation – Andam, Ferraro, Pfaff and Sanchez-Azofeifa 12. GEF Protected Area Projects in East Africa – Conservation Development Centre 13. Applying Quasi-Experimental Methods to Evaluate the Social Impacts of Protected Areas – Andam, Ferraro and Holland 14. Evaluating the Local Socio-Economic Impacts of Protected Areas: A System-Level Comparison Group Approach – Sims 15. Assessing the Potential for Experimental Evaluation of Intervention Effects: The Case of the Regional Integrated Silvopastoral Approaches to Ecosystem Management project (RISEMP) – Vaessen and van Hecken 16. Review of Outcomes to Impact (ROtI) Draft Handbook: GEF EO/Conservation Development Centre 17. GEF Impact Evaluation of the Phase-Out of Ozone-Depleting Substances in Countries with Economies in Transition. Volume One: Theory of Change 18. GEF Impact Evaluation of the Phase-Out of Ozone-Depleting Substances in Countries with Economies in Transition. Volume Two: Country Reports Global Environment Facility Evaluation Office Director: Robert D. van den Berg Task Managers: David Todd, Senior Evaluation Officer, GEF Evaluation Office Lee Alexander Risby, Evaluation Officer, GEF Evaluation Office Evaluation Team: Tom Batchelor and Valery Smirnov of Touchdown Consulting (Brussels) ii Table of Contents 1 ARMENIA................................................................................................................................................. 1 1.1 BACKGROUND ....................................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 INPUTS ................................................................................................................................................... 1 1.3 IMPACT DRIVER I: GOVERNMENT COMMITMENT ................................................................................. 3 1.4 IMPACT DRIVER II: RECOVERY AND RECYCLING PROGRAMME ............................................................. 6 1.5 IMPACT DRIVER III: ENTERPRISE SUSTAINABILITY ............................................................................... 11 1.6 IMPLEMENTING AGENCIES .................................................................................................................. 13 1.7 IMPACT THREATS / RISKS ..................................................................................................................... 13 1.8 IMPACT ON THE PHASE OUT OF OZONE-DEPLETING SUBSTANCES ..................................................... 14 2 AZERBAIJAN .......................................................................................................................................... 15 2.1 BACKGROUND ..................................................................................................................................... 15 2.2 INPUTS ................................................................................................................................................. 16 2.3 IMPACT DRIVER I: GOVERNMENT COMMITMENT .............................................................................. 16 2.4 IMPACT DRIVER II: RECOVERY AND RECYCLING PROGRAMME ........................................................... 18 2.5 IMPACT DRIVER III: ENTERPRISE SUSTAINABILITY ............................................................................... 20 2.6 IMPACT THREATS / RISKS ..................................................................................................................... 23 2.7 IMPLEMENTING AGENCIES .................................................................................................................. 23 2.8 IMPACT ON THE PHASE OUT OF OZONE-DEPLETING SUBSTANCES ..................................................... 24 3 BELARUS ................................................................................................................................................ 25 3.1 BACKGROUND ..................................................................................................................................... 25 3.2 INPUTS ................................................................................................................................................. 25 3.3 IMPACT DRIVER I: GOVERNMENT COMMITMENT .............................................................................. 26 3.4 IMPACT DRIVER II: RECOVERY AND RECYCLING PROGRAMME ........................................................... 28 3.5 IMPACT DRIVER III: ENTERPRISE SUSTAINABILITY ............................................................................... 31 3.6 IMPLEMENTING AGENCIES .................................................................................................................. 34 3.7 IMPACT THREATS / RISKS ..................................................................................................................... 34 3.8 IMPACT ON THE PHASE OUT OF OZONE-DEPLETING SUBSTANCES ..................................................... 35 4 BULGARIA .............................................................................................................................................. 37 4.1 BACKGROUND ..................................................................................................................................... 37 4.2 INPUTS ................................................................................................................................................. 37 4.3 IMPACT DRIVER I: GOVERNMENT COMMITMENT .............................................................................. 38 4.4 IMPACT DRIVER II: RECOVERY AND RECYCLING PROGRAMME ........................................................... 42 4.5 IMPACT DRIVER III: ENTERPRISE SUSTAINABILITY ............................................................................... 46 4.6 IMPLEMENTING AGENCIES .................................................................................................................. 50 4.7 IMPACT THREATS / RISKS ..................................................................................................................... 51 4.8 IMPACT ON THE PHASE OUT OF OZONE-DEPLETING SUBSTANCES ..................................................... 52 5 CZECH REPUBLIC .................................................................................................................................... 53 5.1 BACKGROUND ..................................................................................................................................... 53 5.2 INPUTS ................................................................................................................................................. 54 5.3 IMPACT DRIVER I: GOVERNMENT COMMITMENT .............................................................................. 55 5.4 IMPACT DRIVER II: RECOVERY AND RECYCLING PROGRAMME ........................................................... 57 5.5 IMPACT DRIVER III: ENTERPRISE SUSTAINABILITY ............................................................................... 61 5.6 IMPLEMENTING AGENCIES .................................................................................................................. 63 5.7 IMPACT THREATS / RISKS ..................................................................................................................... 63 5.8 IMPACT ON THE PHASE OUT OF OZONE-DEPLETING SUBSTANCES ..................................................... 64 iii 6 ESTONIA ................................................................................................................................................ 65 6.1 BACKGROUND 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