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UNCDF SPECIAL PROJECTS IMPLEMENTATION REVIEW EXERCISE – SPIRE – FINAL REVIEW SUPPORT TO THE LOCAL ECONOMY IN MWANZA PROGRAMME (SLEM) Tanzania May 2011 EVALUATION TEAM Team Leader Philip Bottern Team Members Andrea Agostinucci, Nazar Sola UNCDF Evaluation Unit Officer UNCDF Special Projects Implementation Review Exercise (SPIRE) Final Review: Support to Local Economy Mwanza - SLEM, Tanzania © UNCDF (2011), all rights reserved. The analysis and recommendations of this report do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations Capital Development Fund, its Executive Board or the United Nations Member States. This is an independent publication by UNCDF and reflects the views of its authors. Design: UNCDF Partnerships Unit. CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................................................. 1 2. PURPOSE OF THE EVALUATION ......................................................................................................................................................... 1 2.1. Scope and Objectives of the Evaluation ....................................................................................................................... 1 2.2. Evaluation Methodology and Limitations ................................................................................................................... 1 3. COUNTRY CONTEXT ......................................................................................................................................................................... 5 3.1. Central Government and its De-Concentration......................................................................................................... 5 3.2. Local Government Structure ............................................................................................................................................ 5 3.3. LGA Functions ....................................................................................................................................................................... 6 3.4. Local government Planning ............................................................................................................................................. 7 4. PROGRAMME PROFILE ...................................................................................................................................................................... 8 4.1. Programme Description .................................................................................................................................................... 8 4.2. Programme Implementation ........................................................................................................................................... 9 4.3. SLEM’s Five Main Outputs and Related Implementation Status ....................................................................... 12 4.4. Programme Financial Data ............................................................................................................................................ 17 5. EVALUATION FINDINGS ................................................................................................................................................................. 20 5.1. A Highly Relevant Programme Inadequately Designed ...................................................................................... 20 5.2. The Programme has Established a Valuable Basis for Enhancing LED Systems, but this is yet to be fully Translated into an Expansion of the relevant Functions and Capacities of LGAs........................ 24 5.3. The Programme has Provided an Adequate Basis for Strategic Analysis and Assessment, but the Integration of LED Strategies within the Broader Planning and Budgeting Process is still Limited ..... 31 5.4. The Programme’s Investments in Support to Local Economies has Constituted a Relevant and Useful Support for Income Generation but Lacked the Scale and Means to Play a Strategic Function in Triggering LED ............................................................................................................................................ 34 5.5. Strong Ownership of Programme Activities by SLEM Actors and Set-Up within Existing Institutions are Promising Features for Programme Sustainability ................................................................. 39 5.6. Management of the Programme has been Effective with Adequate Set-Up at Regional and Local Level ........................................................................................................................................................................... 41 5.7. Without a Systematic Effort, the Programme has Provided some Inputs to the Government on LED and LGA Mandate for LED ..................................................................................................................................... 43 5.8. The Programme has not established effective Partnerships with the Government and donors nor UNDP after “one UN” concept started ............................................................................................................... 44 6. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS .................................................................................................................................... 46 6.1. Overall Assessment .......................................................................................................................................................... 46 6.2. Specific Conclusions ........................................................................................................................................................ 47 6.3. Recommendations ........................................................................................................................................................... 49 Annexes ANNEX 1: TOR DEVELOPED BY UNCDF ................................................................................................................................................ 52 ANNEX 2: BIBLIOGRAPHY ........................................................................................................................................................................ 67 ANNEX 3: LIST OF PERSONS MET ............................................................................................................................................................. 69 ANNEX 4. MISSION PLAN ........................................................................................................................................................................ 75 ANNEX 5: TOTAL PROGRAMME EXPENDITURE ....................................................................................................................................... 77 ANNEX 6: MANAGEMENT RESPONSE MATRIX ...................................................................................................................................... 79 ANNEX 7. EVALUATION MATRIX ADJUSTED TO SLEM ........................................................................................................................... 81 ANNEX 8: OPINION SURVEYS FOR REGIONAL AND DISTRICT STAKEHOLDERS ................................................................................... 102 i List of Tables TABLE 1: SUMMARY OF CORE EVALUATION QUESTIONS ..............................................................................................2 TABLE 2: SUMMARY WORK-PLAN ..........................................................................................................................................4 TABLE 3. MWANZA REGION, POPULATION (2002), AREA AND LGA STRUCTURE ..................................................8 TABLE 4: SLEM: GOAL, OUTCOMES, AND OUTPUTS ........................................................................................................8 TABLE 5: SUMMARY PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION STATUS ............................................................................... 10 TABLE 6: DISTRICT FORUM LOCAL ECONOMY AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE MEETINGS ..................... 13 TABLE 7: BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SHOP ACTIVITY .................................................................................................... 14 TABLE 8: REGISTRATION OF ECONOMIC GROUPS ......................................................................................................... 14 TABLE 9: SLEM. TRAINING AND CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT ....................................................................................... 15 TABLE 10: PROVISION OF LOANS TO ECONOMIC GROUPS 2008-2010 .................................................................. 15 TABLE 11: LOANS, PAYBACK RATE AND CAPITAL ......................................................................................................... 15 TABLE 12: DELIVERY (PER DONOR), USD: ......................................................................................................................... 17 TABLE 13: BUDGET, EXPENDITURES AND PERCENTAGE EXECUTED: 2006 TO 2010 .......................................... 17 TABLE 14: SLEM’S RELEVANCE VIS À VIS THE MAIN NATIONAL AND DONORS’ STRATEGIC FRAMEWORKS ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 22 TABLE 15: SUMMARY DFLE ANALYSIS..............................................................................................................................