OFFICE OF EVALUATION Country programme evaluation series Evaluation of FAO’s contribution to the KYRGYZ REPUBLIC ANNEXES July 2016 COUNTRY PROGRAMME EVALUATION SERIES Evaluation of FAO’s contribution to the Kyrgyz Republic ANNEXES FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE OF EVALUATION July 2016 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Office of Evaluation (OED) This report is available in electronic format at: http://www.fao.org/evaluation The designations employed and the presentation of material in this information product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concerning the legal or development status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. 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For further information on this report, please contact: Director, Office of Evaluation (OED) Food and Agriculture Organization Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 1, 00153 Rome Italy Email: [email protected] Photo credits: cover (top to bottom) ©FAO/Vyacheslav Oseledko; ©FAO/Sergey Kozmin; ©FAO/Vyacheslav Oseledko; ©FAO/Vyacheslav Oseledko; ©FAO/Sergey Kozmin; ©FAO/Sergey Kozmin; Evaluation of FAO’s contributions to the Kyrgyz Republic – Annexes Contents Acknowledgements .......................................................................................................................................iv Map of Kyrgyzstan ...........................................................................................................................................v Acronyms and abbreviations ......................................................................................................................vi Annex 1: Terms of reference for the country programme evaluation in the Kyrgyz Republic ............................................................................................................1 Annex 2: Impact assessment of livestock projects ......................................................14 Annex 2.1: Impact Assessment of Irrigation Projects................................................ 36 Annex 2.2: Impact assessment of fisheries projects ................................................. 72 Annex 3: Assessment by Priority Area ........................................................................... 97 iii Evaluation of FAO’s contributions to the Kyrgyz Republic – Annexes Acknowledgements The Office of Evaluation of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) would like to thank all those who contributed to this report. This Country Programme Evaluation was prepared by a team led by Carlos Tarazona from the Office of Evaluation, and composed of Roman Mogilevskii, Kanat Tilekeyev and Nazgul Abdrazakova from the University of Central Asia, who reviewed FAO’s support to the development of plans, strategies and policies on food and agriculture; Nargiza Mazhidova and Gulnaz Kaseeva, who undertook case studies on fisheries and livestock projects, and assessed the contributions of the FAO country programme to sustainable management of natural resources; and Asyl Undeland, who undertook a case study on irrigation projects, assessed the contributions of FAO to rural poverty reduction and climate change adaptation, and coordinated the preparation of the first draft of the report. The evaluation team is grateful to all beneficiaries, stakeholders and FAO staff who generously gave their time and efforts to provide us with materials, documents, and information that served as a foundation for the report. Special gratitude goes to Dorjee Kinlay, FAO Country Representative, and Dinara Rakhmanova, former Deputy Country Representative, for extending their full support and sharing with the team their insights and vision on the future of FAO’s programme in Kyrgyzstan, as well as providing guidance and advice on persons to interview. We also wish to acknowledge the invaluable assistance of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic as well as FAO management and staff at headquarters, the Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia, and the Sub- regional Office for Central Asia. iv Evaluation of FAO’s contributions to the Kyrgyz Republic – Annexes Map of Kyrgyzstan v Evaluation of FAO’s contributions to the Kyrgyz Republic – Annexes Acronyms and abbreviations CBA Community-Based Association FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations GEF Global Environmental Fund MoAA Ministry of Agriculture and Amelioration NGO Non-Governmental Organization REU Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia SAEPF State Agency for Environmental Protection and Forestry SEC Sub-regional Office for Central Asia SO Strategic Objective TCP Technical Cooperation Project UNDAF United Nations Development Assistance Framework UNDP United Nations Development Programme WFP World Food Programme WUA Water User Association vi Evaluation of FAO’s contributions to the Kyrgyz Republic – Annexes Annex 1: Terms of reference for the country programme evaluation in the Kyrgyz Republic 1. Introduction The FAO Office of Evaluation (OED) has been conducting country programme evaluations since 2005 to provide accountability to Member countries, national governments and development partners, and draw lessons and suggestions for programme improvement. Kyrgyzstan was selected as one of the countries in which to carry out a Country Programme Evaluation (CPE) in 2015. The Terms of Reference (ToR) for the Kyrgyzstan country evaluation are the result of the preparatory phase, consisting of: a desk review of existing external documentation1; a preliminary analysis of FAO’s portfolio of work in Kyrgyz Republic; and scoping interviews with FAO staff at the country, sub-regional and regional levels and in HQ. The ToRs also benefited from discussions held during the inception mission with a selected number of partners at the national level including government officials, donors, UN agencies, academia and civil society. The evaluation will cover the past five years of the programme (2011-2015); ongoing and pipeline projects will be referred to but unless conducted for a relatively long period these will not be evaluated in detail. These ToRs represent a guiding document for the Evaluation Team. Their purpose is to describe the programme in Kyrgyzstan and identify some key areas of work undertaken over the past five years, table the scope of the evaluation and define the initial evaluation work plan. The ToRs have been shared with and commented upon by FAO staff in the Country Office (CO), the Sub-regional Office for Central Asia (SEC), the Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU) and key FAO stakeholders in the Kyrgyz Republic. A set of key questions has been developed to further define the objective and inform the methodology to be employed at different stages of the exercise. The methodology and the evaluation tools will be further developed by the team over the course of the evaluation. 2. Purpose of the evaluation The purpose of the evaluation is to provide inputs to better orient FAO’s programme in Kyrgyzstan, making it more relevant to the needs of the country. It will provide accountability to the Government and non-government partners, communities and resource partners in the country, as well as all member countries. It seeks to draw lessons and make recommendations that will be useful for FAO’s future engagement in the country. Besides providing lessons specifically on FAO’s work in Kyrgyzstan, the evaluation will also enrich FAO’s synthesis of findings and guidance for its country-level support. In addition to providing advice to management and staff at the national level on how to improve the impact and relevance of FAO’s programme, the evaluation will also identify potential areas for future interventions in line with FAO’s comparative advantage. This aim is particularly relevant in the case of this CPE, considering the progressive and recent reinforcement of the country programme in Kyrgyzstan, potentially opening up new areas of collaboration with the Government and other partners. The main audience for the evaluation, to which most of the lessons and recommendations will be addressed, are the FAO Representative, his staff, and the Government of Kyrgyzstan. Other important users of the evaluation are the Regional and Sub-regional Offices and FAO as a whole, including divisions in HQ and other Country Offices that will benefit and build on lessons