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ASSESSMENT OF DEVELOPMENT RESULTS EVALUATION OF UNDP CONTRIBUTIONCÔTE D’IVOIRE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT effectiveness COORDINATI efficiency COORDINATION AND PARTNERSHIP sust NATIONAL OWNERSHIP relevance MANAGING FOR sustainability MANAGING FOR RESULTS responsivene DEVELOPMENT responsiveness NATIONAL OWNER NATIONAL OWNERSHIP effectiveness COORDINATI efficiency COORDINATION AND PARTNERSHIP sust NATIONAL OWNERSHIP relevance MANAGING FOR sustainability MANAGING FOR RESULTS responsivene HUMAN DEVELOPMENT effectiveness COORDINATI ASS ESSMENT OF DEVELOPMENT RESULTS EVALUATION OF UNDP CONTRIBUTIONCôte d’IvoIRE The Management Response for this evaluation can be accessed here: http://erc.undp.org/evaluationadmin/manageresponse/view.html?evaluationid=6534 Evaluation Office, February 2013 United Nations Development Programme REPORTS PUBLISHED UNDER THE ADR SERIES Afghanistan Georgia Paraguay Argentina Ghana Peru Bangladesh Guatemala The Philippines Barbados and OECS Guyana Rwanda Benin Honduras Senegal Bhutan India Serbia Bosnia and Herzegovina Indonesia Seychelles Botswana Jamaica Somalia Brazil Jordan Sri Lanka Bulgaria Lao PDR Sudan Burkina Faso Liberia Syrian Arab Republic Cambodia Libya Tajikistan Chile Malawi Thailand China Maldives Tunisia Colombia Moldova Turkey Democratic Republic of Congo Mongolia Uganda Republic of the Congo Montenegro Ukraine Costa Rica Mozambique United Arab Emirates Côte d'Ivoire Nepal Uzbekistan Djibouti Nicaragua Viet Nam Ecuador Niger Yemen Egypt Nigeria Zambia El Salvador Pacific Islands Ethiopia Papua New Guinea ASSESSMENT OF DEVELOPMENT RESULTS: CÔTE D’Ivoire Copyright © UNDP 2013, all rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Printed on recycled paper. The analysis and recommendations of this report do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations Development Programme, its Executive Board or the United Nations Member States. This is an independent publication by UNDP Evaluation Office. Copy editing: Sanjay Upadhya Graphic design: Laurie Douglas Graphic Design (lauriedouglas.com) Cover photos: UNDP Côte d’Ivoire ACKNOWledgements This evaluation was conducted by the Evaluation The cooperation of Ngokwey Ndolamb, the Office of UNDP, with Roberto La Rovere as UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident evaluation manager. The office drew on the Representative, and the contribution by André following persons to conduct the evaluation: Carvalho, former Country Director, and the new team leader Nadia Bechraoui, and the team UNDP Country Director, Mr. Luc Gregoire, members Mamadou Coulibaly (on the poverty are acknowledged with thanks. We particularly component, and the fight against HIV/AIDS); appreciate the cooperation received from Aissata Clément Sekongo (on governance aspects); Asna De, Deputy Country Director (Programme), who Fall (gender) and Gabriella Buescher (crisis acted as focal point for the ADR; her support prevention and recovery). At the Evaluation was crucial for the success of the evaluation. We Office in New York, Anna Dall’Oca provided also acknowledge the support by Christian Do research support. Rosario, Deputy Country Director (Operations), and Emma Ngouan-Anoh, Assistant Resident Our thanks are extended to stakeholders and Representative (Programme), and the other staff partners of UNDP-Côte d’Ivoire, including of UNDP-Côte d’Ivoire, including those in the mem bers of the Government, civil society, inter- field. We would also like to thank the UNDP national development community, the United Regional Bureau for Africa for their valuable Nations family and members of the communities support and contribution to the process, and the that the ADR team consulted during the evalu- interest in the process by the Bureau for Conflict ation. Their engagement was constructive, allow- Prevention and Recovery in New York. ing the team to conduct the evaluation while maintaining independence. It is our hope that this evaluation will help UNDP further leverage its strategic partner- We are grateful to Mr. Albert Mabri Toikeusse, ship with the Government of Côte d’Ivoire, as Minister of State, Ministry of Planning and UNDP advances with its transformation process Development, who chaired the stakeholder work- to become an ever more relevant and valuable shop on 15 February 2013 in Abidjan. Credit partner to the country. should also be given to members of the reference group, led by the Director-General of Plan and Poverty Reduction Diaby Lacine. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iii iv FOREWORD The Assessment of Development Results (ADR) that is more focused towards informing a strategic as a core area of the work of the Evaluation direction for UNDP. Office (EO) seeks to independently and sys- tematically assess progress around key United The evaluation showed that generally, and Nations Development Programme (UNDP) despite a context of political instability that has interventions in countries which receive UNDP persisted since 2000, the UNDP programme has support. This ADR was conducted in collabora- succeeded in achieving tangible results at both tion with the Government of Côte d’Ivoire with strategic and operational levels in all areas of a view to strengthening ownership of evaluation intervention, including poverty reduction, crisis results by national partners, and consequently its prevention and recovery and promoting the val- credibility and utility. For this purpose and to ues of the United Nations. oversee the process, a reference group was set up with participants from the Ministry of State for However, administrative procedures must be Planning and Development, the Country Office reviewed as they are cumbersome and delay and Regional Office for Africa as main reference operational implementation, making it difficult points and included other government ministries, to implement work plans within required time- the National Statistics Institute, United Nations frames and consequently placing expected out- Population Fund, the European Union, and comes at risk. members of the civil society and non-govern- ment organizations. The process was conducted UNDP must focus its support so as to prepare by an independent national team and guided Côte d’Ivoire to face not only its chronic chal- by a professional evaluation manager from lenges such as poverty, food insecurity and cli- the EO. Through this mechanism, both the mate issues, but also the emerging challenges, Government and the EO ensured that estab- those that will allow it to recover the stability lished norms and standards for evaluation, such needed to continue its development. as independence, impartiality and rigorous meth- odology, were followed. The conclusions and recommendations from this study help UNDP to reflect on its effec- This approach also helped the evaluation team tiveness and strengthen its strategic position in gather contributions from a wide range of Côte d’Ivoire. Having provided the opportunity national partners as well as from various activities to take stock of what worked, what did not and that have been recently carried out, such as the why over the past 11 years, this study recom- report entitled ‘Repositioning UNDP in Côte mends the roles that UNDP could play in the d’Ivoire (2011-2013)’, drawn up in 2011, and future. The Evaluation Office sincerely hopes the ‘Joint Review of the Priority Plan for Côte that this evaluation will support ongoing and d’Ivoire’ by DPKO, PBSO, DPA and UNDP, future efforts by UNDP to enhance its sup- written in September 2009. The result is a report port to the Government of Côte d’Ivoire and that closely mirrors the national situation and is other national partners towards achievement of therefore of greater use to our national partners ever increasing levels of human development for and UNDP itself, in view of a future commitment the people of Côte d’Ivoire. We also hope that FOREWORD v the study will inform UNDP’s strategy more new programming cycle and innovative processes widely and that the recommendations from for a more secure and sustainable future. the ADR will lead to management action and imple mentation. We believe that this evaluation was very timely, since it took place at the same time as the country’s Indran A. Naidoo recent strategic planning and formulation of the Director, Evaluation Office vi FOREWORD Contents Acronyms and Abbreviations ix Executive Summary xv Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Scope of the Evaluation 1 1.2 Methodology and Approach 2 1.3 Evaluability and Limitations 4 1.4 Evaluation Report 5 Chapter 2 National Context And Development Challenges 7 2.1 General Overview of Côte d’Ivoire 7 2.2 Attaining the Millennium Development Goals 13 2.3 Challenges and Constraints on National Development 22 Chapter 3 UNDP Responses And Strategies 27 3.1 Intervention Strategy and Programme Cycles 27 3.2 Change in UNDP Resources And Expenditure 31 Chapter 4 UNDP’s Contribution To Development Results In Côte d’Ivoire 37 4.1 Poverty Reduction with a View to Achieving the Mdgs 37 4.2 Governance 45 4.3 Crisis Prevention and Recovery 50 Chapter 5 Strategic Positioning of UNDP 57 5.1 Strategic Relevance and Capacity for Adaptation 57 5.2 Ability to Capitalize on Strengths 58 5.3 Promoting the Values of the United Nations 63 Chapter 6 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 65 6.1 Conclusions 65 6.2 Recommendations for the UNDP Country Office 68 6.3 Recommendation for UNDP Headquarters 70 Annexes Annex 1. Terms of Reference 71 Annex 2. Sample of Projects Included 81 Annex 3. Sampling – Projects List 83 Annex 4. Data Sources and Data