UNFPA COUNTRY PROGRAMME EVALUATION: BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA Period covered by the evaluation (2010-May 2013) FINAL EVALUATION REPORT July 18, 2013 Bosnia Herzegovina country map Title and Position on Team Team members Evaluation Team Leader Sam Clark Gender Expert Anamaria Golemac Powell Evaluation Logistics Coordinator Emina Durmo ii Disclaimer Statement This evaluation report was prepared by Consultants Sam Clark, Evaluation Team Leader, and Anamaria Golemac Powell, Gender Expert, with assistance from Emina Durmo, Consultant and Evaluation Logistics Coordinator. The report was produced under the guidance and supervision of Mr Mahbub Alam, Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor, UNFPA Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regional Office, with review and oversight from the UNFPA BiH Evaluation Reference Group. The content, analysis and recommendations of this report do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), its Executive Committee or member states. Acknowledgements The authors wish to acknowledge with their sincere thanks numerous staff members from the Bosnia Herzegovina State and Entity Level Ministries and related institutions, the UN collaborating agencies, and a wide range of NGOs for providing time, resources and materials to permit the development and implementation of this evaluation. We appreciate the participation of members of the Evaluation Reference Group, especially those who took time to attend the inception and out-briefing and provided comments. We are particularly grateful to the UNFPA BiH staff members who, despite a heavy load of other pressing commitments, were so responsive to our requests on short notice. We would also like to acknowledge the many other Bosnia Herzegovinian stakeholders and client/beneficiaries, including the inspiring elderly and youth activists, who helped shape the design and implementation of this evaluation despite their busy schedules. The authors wish to thank the evaluation logistics coordinator for her outstanding efforts to facilitate all aspects of this evaluation, which required both persistence and diplomacy. It is the team's hope that this evaluation and recommendations presented in this report will positively contribute and help in achieving desired results in the remaining year of the CPAP 1 and that it will support strengthening of the on-going efforts of the country office. iii Bosnia Herzegovina country map ........................................................................................... ii Disclaimer Statement .............................................................................................................. iii Acknowledgements .................................................................................................................. iii Abbreviations ........................................................................................................................... vi Executive summary .................................................................................................................. x CHAPTER 1: Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1 Section 1.1: Purpose and objectives of the country programme evaluation.............................. 1 Section 1.2: Scope of the evaluation ......................................................................................... 1 Section 1.4: Methods for data collection and analysis .............................................................. 3 Section 1.5: Limitations and risks ............................................................................................ 6 Section 1.6: Process overview................................................................................................... 6 CHAPTER 2: Country context ............................................................................................... 8 Section 2.1: Context ................................................................................................................. 9 Section 2.2: The development challenges and national strategies ............................................10 Population and Development .................................................................................................11 Sexual and Reproductive Health ............................................................................................12 Gender Equality....................................................................................................................15 GBV/CRSV..........................................................................................................................16 Section 2.3: The role of external assistance .............................................................................17 CHAPTER 3: UN/UNFPA Strategic response and programme ........................................ 18 Section 3.1: UN Strategic response .........................................................................................18 Section 3.2: UNFPA Strategic response ..................................................................................19 Section 3.3: The UNFPA programmatic response ...................................................................20 Section 3.4: The country programme financial structure........................................................23 Chapter 4: Analysis of Programmatic Areas ....................................................................... 27 Section 4.1: Sexual Reproductive Health ................................................................................27 Overview of the UNFPA BiH Reproductive Health Focus Area ...............................................27 Relevance.............................................................................................................................28 Effectiveness ........................................................................................................................29 Efficiency.............................................................................................................................31 Sustainability........................................................................................................................33 Gender .................................................................................................................................34 Section 4.2: Population and Development ...............................................................................35 Overview of the UNFPA BiH Population and Development Focus Area...................................35 Relevance.............................................................................................................................35 Effectiveness ........................................................................................................................36 Efficiency.............................................................................................................................39 Sustainability........................................................................................................................41 iv Gender .................................................................................................................................42 Section 4.3: Gender Equality ..................................................................................................42 Overview of the UNFPA BIH CPAP Gender Equity Focus Area..............................................42 Relevance.............................................................................................................................43 Effectiveness ........................................................................................................................44 Efficiency.............................................................................................................................46 Sustainability........................................................................................................................47 Gender .................................................................................................................................48 Section 4.4: Results from Semi-structured Training Follow-up interviews .............................49 Section 4.5: Results from Semi-structured interviews with client/beneficiaries.......................49 Chapter 5: Strategic positioning .......................................................................................... 50 Section 5.1: Corporate strategic alignment .............................................................................50 Section 5.2: Systemic strategic alignment ...............................................................................51 Section 5.3: Responsiveness ....................................................................................................52 Section 5.4: Added value.........................................................................................................53 Chapter 6: Cross-cutting aspects: Monitoring & Evaluation system................................ 54 Section 6.1: The country office monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system .............................54 Section 6.2: Support to national partners’ capacity in terms of M&E systems........................55 CHAPTER 7 Conclusions and recommendations ............................................................... 55 Section 7.1: Main conclusions .................................................................................................55