La REPUBLIC OF GUINEA-BISSAU MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES (MAF) ------------------------ Support to the Building of Guinea-Bissau’s National Capacity in Sustainable Land Management and Desertification Control FINAL EVALUATION OF THE CAPACITY BUILDING PROJECT IN SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENT AND DESERTIFICATION CONTROL Final Version Consultants Roger SOUBEIGA, Socio - Economist January 2013 and Project Analyst 0 6 B P : 9 3 1 7 Table of Contents COVER PAGE ................................................................................................................................ 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................................................. 5 ACRYNOYMS AND ABREVIATIONS................................................................................................. 9 1. INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................... 10 1.1 Objective...................................................................................................................................... 10 1.2 Scope of activity and method ...................................................................................................... 10 1.2.1 Scope of activity ................................................................................................................... 10 1.2.2 Method ................................................................................................................................. 10 1.3 Difficulties Encountered and Limits of the Study .................................................................... 11 1.3.1 Difficulties Encountered ....................................................................................................... 11 1.3.2 Limits of the study ................................................................................................................ 11 1.4 Structure of the evaluation report .............................................................................................. 11 2. DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT AND DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT ........................................................ 12 2.1 Start of Project and Duration ...................................................................................................... 12 2.2 Problems that the Project Sought to Address ............................................................................. 12 2.3 Immediate and Development Objectives of the Project ............................................................. 12 2.3.1 Development Objective ........................................................................................................ 12 2.3.2 Immediate Objective ............................................................................................................ 12 2.4 Established Reference Indicators ................................................................................................ 12 2.5 Principal Stakeholders ................................................................................................................. 13 2.6 Expected results .......................................................................................................................... 13 3. OBSERVATIONS AND ANALYSIS ............................................................................................... 13 3.1 Project design/formulation ......................................................................................................... 13 3.1.1 Analysis of the Logical Framework Approach of the Project ............................................... 13 3.1.2 Assumptions and risks .......................................................................................................... 14 3.1.3 Lessons from other similar projects that were integrated into project design ................... 15 3.1.4 Planned participation of stakeholders ................................................................................. 15 3.1.5 Approach for replication ...................................................................................................... 16 3.1.6 UNDP’s comparative advantage ........................................................................................... 16 3.1.7 Linkages between the project and other interventions within the sector .......................... 16 3.1.8 Management provisions ....................................................................................................... 17 3.2 Project Implementation .............................................................................................................. 17 3.2.1 Adaptive Management .................................................................................................. 17 3.2.2 Partnership Agreements....................................................................................................... 17 3.2.3 Feedback on Monitoring-Evaluation Activities for Adaptive Management ......................... 18 3.2.4 Project Finance ..................................................................................................................... 18 3.2.5 Monitoring and Evaluation: Design at Entry and Implementation ...................................... 18 3.2.6 UNDP and Executing Agency implementation, execution, coordination and operations ... 19 3.3 Analysis of Project Results and Performance .............................................................................. 20 ~ 2 ~ 3.3.1 Analysis of the overall results ............................................................................................... 20 3.3.2 Relevance ............................................................................................................................. 26 3.3.3 Effectiveness ......................................................................................................................... 27 3.3.4 Efficiency .............................................................................................................................. 30 3.3.5 Country Ownership .............................................................................................................. 32 3.3.6 Mainstreaming ..................................................................................................................... 32 3.3.7 Catalytic role and impacts .................................................................................................... 33 3.3.8 Sustainability ........................................................................................................................ 36 5. CONCLUSIONS, LESSONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ................................................................ 38 5.1 Conclusions .................................................................................................................................. 38 5.2 Lessons learnt .............................................................................................................................. 38 5.3 Recommendations....................................................................................................................... 39 6. ANNEXES ................................................................................................................................ 41 6.1 Annex 1: UNDP-GEF Terms of Reference for Final Evaluation .................................................... 41 6.2 Annex 2: Some Characteristics of the Samples ........................................................................... 58 6.3 Annex 3: Other Tables of Analysis ............................................................................................... 62 6.4 Annex 4: Itinerary ........................................................................................................................ 63 6.5 Annex 5: List of Persons Interviewed .......................................................................................... 64 6.6 Annex 6: Summary of Field Visits ................................................................................................ 66 6.7 Annex 7: List of Documents Reviewed ........................................................................................ 67 6.8 Annex 8: Questionnaires Used and Summary of Results ............................................................ 68 6.9 Annex 9 : Formulaire d’accord du consultant d’évaluation ........................................................ 69 6.10 Annex 10: Evaluation Report Clearance Form .......................................................................... 69 ~ 3 ~ COVER PAGE Name of project UNDP/GEF: Support to the Building of Technical, Human and Financial Capacity in Sustainable Land Management and the Fight against Desertification in Guinea-Bissau Project ID UNDP and GEF: GNB 00043166 and PIMS 3386 and GEF ID (PMIS) 3481 Evaluation schedule and date of evaluation report: from 19 November to 20 December 2012 Regions and countries included in the report: Africa, Guinea-Bissau GEF Operational Programme / strategic programme: Land degradation OP 15/SP 1 Building of targeted capacities Executing agency and project partners: Government of Guinea-Bissau via the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (ex-Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development), PRESAR-BAD, CILSS, Government of Portugal Members of Evaluation Team: Roger SOUBEIGA, international consultant and team leader, and Alfonso Ildo LOPES, national consultant Acknowledgements: The