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Independent evaluation and drawing lessons
learned of the Capacity Building for Sustainable Land Management in Bulgaria
Project
(February – May 2008)
Client: UNDP
The Project main goals were:
Independent
evaluation and drawing lessons learned per outcomes and target groups
of the SLM Project.
Provide support
to the International Evaluator responsible for the SLM Project Final Evaluation.
The Target groups included in the evaluation were:
National
institutions with responsibilities for sustainable land management: MOEW,
EEA, MAFS, Soil Resources Agency, SAF (Forestry Agency);
Regional
institutions with responsibilities for sustainable land management: RIEWs,
Water Basin Directorates, Regional Forestry Boards;
NAAS and
RAASs;
Scientific
institutions - Pushkarov Soil Institute, Forestry Institute;
Educational
institutions – Ministry of Education and Science, Educational Departments
of the MAFS and NFB, Professional Schools of Agriculture and Forestry
and the Agricultural University of Plovdiv
Local authorities
– Administrative bodies of 10 Municipalities implementing demonstrational
projects in the framework of the SLM Project.
Farmers -
selected from the group of the NAAS clients
NGO representatives
– those aware of the project in order to recognize their opinion
on its impact.
Our responsibilities included:
Review of
the SLM Project Documents, the Logical Framework Matrix, the results achieved
during the project implementation, list of project publications, etc.;
Development
of a list of hypothesis for project achievements based on the project
goals, expected outputs and the indicators in the logical framework matrix;
Development
of interview questionnaires for the three levels of capacity – individual,
institutional and systematic.
Development
of a list of interviewees.
Distribution
of the questioner to 93 representatives of all target groups who were
involved in the project implementation.
Execution
of seventeen (17) personal interviews with people closely involved in
the implementation of the Project.
Organization
and carrying out four (4) thematic meetings with – farmers/clients
of the Gabrovo RAAS; farmers/clients of the Veliko Turnovo RAAS; school
directors of the agriculture and forests professional schools that were
involved in the Project implementation; representatives of the RIEWs.
Analysis
of the collected information from questioners, interviews and thematic
meetings. Preparation of a draft preliminary report which served as a
base for defining and formulating the lessons learned.
Organization
and charring out of a WS/Focus group meeting with the stakeholders’
representatives for presentation and discussion of lessons learnt and
receiving recommendations and feedback.
Support for
the International Evaluator’s field mission. Our team experts were
providing information and analysis and participating in all his meetings
with PMU, UNDP and project stakeholders during his mission in Bulgaria.
Development
of Final technical report.
