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REPUBLIC OF NIGER Fraternity – Work – Progress PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE ---------------- NATIONAL GLOBAL UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL FOR FACILITY PROGRAMME SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FINAL EVALUATION REPORT ON THE GEF/LDCF/UNDP-FUNDED PANA RESILIENCE PROJECT May/June 2014 1 CONTENTS pages ACRONYMS AND ABREVIATIONS .................................................................................................. 4 List of figures .......................................................................................................................................... 6 GLOSSARY ............................................................................................................................................ 7 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ....................................................................................................................... 9 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................................................................................................................... 10 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................. 13 I. GENERAL INFORMATION ............................................................................................................................. 15 A. CONTEXT AND JUSTIFICATION .................................................................................................................. 15 B. REMINDER OF THE PROJECT AIMS .......................................................................................................... 15 1. Overall aim .......................................................................................................................................................... 16 2. Specific objectives ............................................................................................................................................ 16 C. CONSISTENCY OF PROJECT OBJECTIVES WITH NATIONAL STRATEGIES ............................... 16 D. COMMENTS ON CERTAIN PROJECT DESIGN INDICATORS........................................................ 17 II. METHODOLOGY ........................................................................................................................... 18 A. DOCUMENTARY REVIEW ......................................................................................................................... 18 B. STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS ................................................................................................................ 18 C. FIELD ASSIGNMENT ........................................................................................................................................ 19 1. Choice of sites for evaluation ....................................................................................................................... 19 2. Data gathering tools ........................................................................................................................................ 19 D. OBJECTIVES OF THE FINAL EVALUATION ....................................................................................... 19 E. EXPECTED RESULTS .................................................................................................................................. 20 F. SUMMARY OF EXPECTED RESULTS ......................................................................................................... 20 III – RESULTS OF THE FINAL EVALUATION ............................................................................... 21 3.1. Round-up of project effects and the impacts of its overall results ............................................... 21 3.2. Overall results of activities carried out by PANA Resilience from 2010 to 2013 ................... 25 3.3. Summary of training received by beneficiaries .................................................................................... 36 3.4. PANA Resilience financial statements 2010 – 2013 ............................................................................ 42 3.4.1. Statement of income and expenditure of the PANA Resilience Project, 2010 - 2013 ... 42 2 3.4.2. Co-funding ................................................................................................................................................... 44 3.4.3. Status of the recommendations from the four Project management audits 2010 - 2013 ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 46 IV – RECOMMENDATIONS, FURTHER ACTION AND STUDIES, CONSTRAINTS AND OPPORTUNITIES, CHALLENGES AND LESSONS LEARNED .................................................... 46 4.1. Pros and cons ...................................................................................................................................................... 49 4.2. The challenges: lessons to learn................................................................................................................... 49 V – REPORT ON PROJECT-LEVEL COMMUNICATION .............................................................. 53 VI. THE PANA PROJECT AND THE QUESTION OF ITS SUSTAINABILITY ............................. 59 ANNEXES ............................................................................................................................................ 62 ANNEXE 1: List of all stakeholders’ responses to the expected results of the Project in terms of effectiveness, impact, sustainability and gender ................................................................................................ 63 ANNEXE 2: Survey sheet: summary questionnaire (not exhaustive) for target populations .... 87 ANNEXE 3: Technical Datasheets (see table of recommendations) .......................................................... 89 ANNEXE 4: Project summary ............................................................................................................................. 96 ANNEXE 5: Partners’ contributions to Project implementation: comments during final stage ........ 97 ANNEXE 6: Overall project performance scores in the terms of the GEF/UNDP Directives ........... 98 ANNEXE 7: Terms of Reference of the Final Evaluation ..................................................................... 101 ANNEXE 8: List of partners met ..................................................................................................................... 103 3 ACRONYMS AND ABREVIATIONS AAP: African Adaptation Programme ALP: Adaptation Learning Programme CBA: Community-Based Adaptation CBD: Convention on Biological Diversity CCD: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification CES/DRS: water and soil conservation CNEA: National Water and Sanitation Commission CNEDD: National Environmental Council for Sustainable Development (Niger) CNP: National Project Steering Committee CNSF: National Forest Seeds Centre (Niger) CQI: Continuous Quality Improvement CTEDD: Commission Technique Eau et Développement Durable (technical commission on water and sustainable development) DMN: National Meteorology Directorate GEF: Global Environment Facility HIMO: high labour intensity in public works projects HIPC: Heavily Indebted Poor Countries HS: Highly Satisfactory HU: Highly Unsatisfactory IDCC: Integration of the Dimension of Climate Change IMWR: Integrated Management of Water Resources INRAN: Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique du Niger I3N: Nigériens Feed Nigériens initiative LFB: Livestock Feed Bank MH/E: Ministry of Hydraulics and the Environment MS: moderately satisfactory MTA: Mid-term assessment MU: Moderately unsatisfactory ND: Not Determined NRM: Natural Resource Management PANA: Programme d’Actions National pour l’Adaptation aux Changements Climatiques (National Action Programme for Adaptation to Climate Change) PDC: Municipal Development Plan Prodoc: Project Document PTA: Annual Work Plan RGA: Revenue-Generating Activity S: Satisfactory SDR: Rural Development Strategy SE/CNEDD: Secrétariat Exécutif du Conseil National de l’Environnement pour un Développement Durable (Executive Secretariat of the National Environmental Council for Sustainable Development) SRP: Poverty Reduction Strategy U: Unsatisfactory UGCP: Project Management and Coordination Unit UNFCCC: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNV: United Nations Volunteers VS: Very Satisfactory 4 5 LIST OF FIGURES Fig. 1: Total numbers of adaptation measures, as project impact...................................................................... 23 Fig. 2: Number of communities which were, but no longer are, living in food insecurity ........................ 24 Fig. 3: Number of institutional agreements signed to improve climate information networks ................ 24 Fig. 4: Number of cases covered by ALP ................................................................................................................. 24 Fig. 5: Number of growers using improved seed varieties .................................................................................. 30 Fig. 6: Number of producers with access to the seeds .......................................................................................... 31 Fig. 7: Number of pilot countrymen trained to grow drought-resistant seed varieties ............................... 31 Fig. 8: Number of drought-resistant varieties introduced each year ................................................................