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External Evaluation of OHCHR Project “Combating Discrimination in the Republic of Moldova, Including in the Transnistrian Region” 2014-2015 External Evaluation of OHCHR Project “Combating Discrimination in the Republic of Moldova, including in the Transnistrian Region” 2014-2015 FINAL REPORT This report has been prepared by an external consultant. The views expressed herein are those of the consultant and therefore do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the OHCHR. December 2015 Acknowledgments The evaluator of the OHCHR project “Combating Discrimination in the Republic of Moldova, including in the Transnistrian Region” is deeply grateful to the many individuals who made their time available for providing information, discussing and answering questions. In particular, the evaluator benefited extensively from the generous information and feedback from OHCHR colleagues and consultants in OHCHR Field Presence in Moldova and in OHCHR Geneva. The evaluator also had constructive meetings with groups of direct beneficiaries, associated project partners, national authorities, and UN colleagues in Moldova, including in the Transnistrian region. External Evaluator Mr. Bjorn Pettersson, Independent Consultant OHCHR Evaluation Reference Group Mrs. Jennifer Worrell (PPMES) Mrs. Sylta Georgiadis (PPMES) Mr. Sabas Monroy (PPMES) Mrs. Hulan Tsedev (FOTCD) Ms. Anita Trimaylova (FOTCD) Ms. Laure Beloin (DEXREL) Mr. Ferran Lloveras (OHCHR Brussels) Table of Contents Table of Contents ......................................................................................................................................... 3 List of Abbreviations ..................................................................................................................................... 4 1 Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................... 5 1.1 Background and context (Ex Summary) ............................................................................................... 5 1.2 Main findings and conclusions (Ex Summary) ...................................................................................... 6 1.3 Lessons Learned, Good Practices and Recommendations (Ex Summary) .............................................. 6 2. Background ............................................................................................................................................. 11 2.1 Intervention Background ................................................................................................................... 11 2.2 Evaluation Background ...................................................................................................................... 11 2.3 Methodology .................................................................................................................................... 12 3 Main Findings .......................................................................................................................................... 13 3.1 Analysis of Relevance ........................................................................................................................ 13 3.2 Analysis of Effectiveness.................................................................................................................... 16 3.3 Analysis of Efficiency ......................................................................................................................... 23 3.4 Analysis of Impact Orientation .......................................................................................................... 25 3.5 Analysis of Sustainability ................................................................................................................... 25 4. Conclusions, Lesson Learned, Good Practices and Recommendations ..................................................... 28 4.1 Conclusions ....................................................................................................................................... 28 4.2 Lessons learned and Good practices .................................................................................................. 29 4.3 Recommendations for OHCHR Geneva and OHCHR Moldova ............................................................ 29 5. Appendices ............................................................................................................................................. 32 5.1 Outputs and quantitative results table .................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. 5.2 Methodological Framework .................................................................... Error! 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List of Abbreviations CEDAW Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women CERD Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination CRAP Republican Centre for Psycho -Pedagogical Assistance CPEDEE Council on the Prevention and Elimination of Discriminatio n and Ensuring Equality CRPD United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities CSO Civil Society Organization DEXREL Donor and External Relations Section ECA Europe and Central Asia Section EIDHR European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights EU European Union FG Focus Group FOTCD Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division HQ Headquarters HRA Human Rights Adviser HRO Human Rights Officer LGBT Lesbian, Gay, Bi -sexual and Transgender ME Ministry of Education MFA Ministry of Foreign Affairs MoI Ministry of Interior MLSPF Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Family NIJ National Institute for Justice NGO Non -Governmental Organization NHRI National Human Rights Institute NHRC National Human Rights Coordinator OECD -DAC Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OHCHR United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights PPMES Policy, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Systems ROCA OHCHR Regional Office for Central Asia TO T Training of Trainers UNICEF United Nations Children Fund USSR Union of Socialist Soviet Republics UNCTs UN country teams UNOG United Nations Office in Geneva UN Women United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women UPR Universal Periodic Review WG Working Group 1 Executive Summary 1.1 Background and context (Ex Summary) From July 2008 to August 2015, an OHCHR Human Rights Adviser was posted to the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator (UNRC) in the Republic of Moldova. The Human Rights Adviser supported and advised the RC, the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) in Moldova, the Government, the National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) and civil society in strengthening human rights and human rights based approaches. The HRA also supported the UNCT to implement the recommendations of UN Senior Expert Thomas Hammarberg as concerns human rights in the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova. As of September 2015, the OHCHR Field Presence in Moldova is led by a National Human Rights Coordinator (NHRC). From 1 April 2014 to 30 September 2015 (18 months), OHCHR implemented the European Commission funded project “Combating Discrimination in the Republic of Moldova, including in the Transnistrian region”. Its overall objective was to address discrimination in Moldova as concerns people belonging to stigmatized or marginalized groups. The specific objectives include: 1) Creation of a network of children with disabilities and their parents to empower them to seek inclusive education in Moldova, including in the Transnistrian region; 2) Creating an environment for integrated education for Roma in key problematic municipalities, including in the Transnistrian region; 3) Promoting the freedom of assembly for LGBT; 4) Establishment of alternative service for conscientious objectors in the Transnistrian region; 5) Strengthening the competences of judicial and quasi-judicial bodies to address and to rule on discrimination in accordance with international law; 6) Achieving significant advancement in documentation of discrimination. The project was implemented under the auspices of the Human Rights Adviser in Moldova and in cooperation with key institutional and civil society partners. The staff involved in the implementation phase was composed of both, OHCHR project employed staff (3) and more than 10 contracted individual consultants, who were hired to implement the specific objectives listed above. Since January 2015 the project was managed by the Anti-discrimination and National Human Rights Institutions Projects Coordinator and administratively supported by the Project Assistant. The total budget of the project amounted to EURO 300,000, with 95% (EUR 285,000) financed by the European Commission. Five percent of the budget (EUR 15,000) was contributed by Poland in 2013. OHCHR is interested in learning from the overall project experience and in extracting good practices that can be reproduced elsewhere. There is no contractual obligation to conduct an external evaluation, but the EU project document suggests that “to ensure maximum efficiency and outputs, the applicant and its partners will apply their internal evaluation procedures”. The objectives of the evaluation were therefore
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