INDEPENDENT FINAL EVALUATION OF UNDP PROJECT: SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT SECRETARIAT TO SUPPORT THEPARLIAMENT OF UKRAINE IN SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT AREA (‘GREEN CAUCUS’ SECRETARIAT) Final Report FEBRUARY 2021 LILIT V. MELIKYAN London, UK 1 Contents ABBREVIATIONS ......................................................................................................................................................................... 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................................................... 6 1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................................... 11 2. DESCRIPTION OF THE INTERVENTION ............................................................................................................................. 11 3. EVALUATION SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES ............................................................................................................................ 14 4. APPROACH, METHODOLOGY AND LIMITATIONS ............................................................................................................ 17 4.1. Approach and Methodology ................................................................................................................................. 17 4.2. Limitations ............................................................................................................................................................ 24 5. DATA ANALYSIS ............................................................................................................................................................... 25 6. FINDINGS......................................................................................................................................................................... 26 6.1. Relevance ............................................................................................................................................................. 26 6.1.1. Relevance of the project idea ...................................................................................................................... 26 6.1.2. Relevance of the project design .................................................................................................................. 27 6.2. Coherence ............................................................................................................................................................ 33 6.3. Effectiveness ......................................................................................................................................................... 34 6.3.1. Achievements and contributions to intended outcomes ............................................................................... 34 6.3.2. Cross cutting ............................................................................................................................................... 44 6.3.3. Planned activities until July 2021 ............................................................................................................... 45 6.4. Efficiency .............................................................................................................................................................. 46 6.5. Sustainability ........................................................................................................................................................ 50 7. CONCLUSIONS ................................................................................................................................................................. 52 8. RECOMMENDATIONS...................................................................................................................................................... 54 9. LESSONS LEARNED .......................................................................................................................................................... 54 10. ANNEXES ................................................................................................................................................................... 55 ANNEX 1: Terms of Reference............................................................................................................................................. 55 ANNEX 2: Evaluation Matrix ................................................................................................................................................ 65 ANNEX 3: Evaluation Tools .................................................................................................................................................. 69 ANNEX 4. Latest Results Along the Logframe (October 2020). ......................................................................................... 71 ANNEX 5: List of people interviewed .................................................................................................................................. 71 ANNEX 6: List of documents reviewed ................................................................................................................................ 74 ANNEX 7: Milestones adopted following the project Board in the summer 2020 and updated in November 2020 .......... 75 ANNEX 8. Mapping of Project Legislative Support and Advocacy ....................................................................................... 78 ANNEX 9: Project expenditures by Dec 2020 and forecast ................................................................................................. 90 ANNEX 10: List of Analytical materials, articles and publications ....................................................................................... 92 ANNEX 11: Statistics collected for disseminated materials................................................................................................. 98 ANNEX 12: Participation of VRU Committees and IFUs in project events ........................................................................... 99 2 LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Evaluation questions .................................................................................................................................................. 15 Table 2: The evolution of the priority areas of the project ....................................................................................................... 30 Table 3: Results levels of the project logframe indicators ....................................................................................................... 32 Table 4: Controbution to legislative work by the VRU ........................................................................................................... 34 Table 5: Agreed Milestones to be achivd by the end of June 2021 .......................................................................................... 45 Table 6: Prjects in the EE portfolio .......................................................................................................................................... 49 Table 7: KII questionnaire ....................................................................................................................................................... 69 LIST OF BOXES Box 1 Project Information ........................................................................................................................................................ 5 Box 2 Revised OECD DAC Evaluation Criteria..................................................................................................................... 17 Box 3: FB page of the IFU “Energy and Environment” .......................................................................................................... 43 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Theory of Change as in the ProDoc .......................................................................................................................... 12 Figure 2։ Recomstructed results chain in the part of achieving the immediate outcomes ........................................................ 28 3 ABBREVIATIONS AA Association Agreement CO Country Office CSO Civil Society Organization CSA the Cost-Sharing Agreement CPD Country Programme Document EU European Union EE Energy and Environment EPNM VRU Committee on Environmental Policy and Nature Management EPHU VRU Committee on Energy Policy, Housing and Utilities Services EIA Environmental Impact Assessment FPE Final Project Evaluation GHG greenhouse gas IFU Inter Fraction Union MP Member of Parliament MPA Assistant to a Member of Parliament MRV monitoring, reporting and verification MENR Ministry of Energy and Natural resources M&E Monitoring and Evaluation NES National Environmental Strategy NGO Non- governmental Organization OSCE Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe PAC Project Advisory Committee ProDoc Project Document PLS post-legislative scrutiny RRP Recovery and Peacebuilding Programme SEE sustainable energy and environment SDG Sustainable Development Goal Sida Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency TOC theory of change UA Ukraine UNDAF United Nations Development Assistance Framework UNDP United Nations Development Programme USAID United States Agency for International Development VRU Parliament of Ukraine WB World Bank 4 Box 1 Project Information Sustainable