• Overview
• Introduction
• Achievements
  in Conflict
  Prevention
  and Recovery
• Achievements
  in Early
  Recovery
• Achievements
  in Disaster
  Risk Reduction
  and Recovery
• Achievements
  in Gender
  Equality in
  Crisis Prevention
  and Recovery

• Institutional Partnerships
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• 2009 Initial
  Results
• Financial
  Summary
• Conclusion
• Annex

 

2008 Highlights

The Way Ahead

Monitoring and Evaluation

Since the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery was created it has sought to promote new ways of doing business – faster, earlier, and in riskier situations – to restore the quality of life for those who have been affected by disaster or violent conflict. The success of our work relies not only on our ability to respond to the needs of communities in crisis, but also to monitor ongoing programmes and assess their effectiveness. That is why monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is a central part of our operations to provide timely, effective assistance to UNDP country offices. Toward this end, BCPR has developed a number of M&E tools to aid colleagues in the field to monitor the results of ongoing activities.

2008 Highlights

BCPR engaged in a wide range of M&E support activities: producing monitoring tools, establishing guidance for country offices to create M&E systems, and developing sets of generic indicators that can be customized at the country level to facilitate effective monitoring and evaluation. These activities will continue in 2009, and feedback received from country offices has been positive. BCPR also sent M&E missions to Haiti and Liberia to assist with developing M&E plans for those offices.

BCPR’s roster of consultants ready to support country offices now also includes M&E experts. During 2008, the Bureau developed its first evaluation plan and launched a comprehensive evaluation of UNDP’s disaster risk reduction work. The purpose of this exercise was to not only assess activities undertaken, but to inform future UNDP policies and programming. The final report is due in 2009.

BCPR also made numerous contributions to strengthening monitoring and evaluation in crisis prevention and recovery programming. For example, the revised UNDP Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Handbook, to be launched in 2009, incorporates guidance on crisis prevention and recovery. BCPR has also been actively involved in developing tools for increased accountability, such as the UNDP Enhanced Results- Based Management platform. Finally, BCPR provided support to the Bureau for Development Policy’s gender team for a pilot project to measure UNDP’s spending on gender activities and participated in two inter-agency evaluations.¹

The Way Ahead

In 2009 BCPR will continue to build on past achievements. It will finalize the disaster risk reduction evaluation, conduct the second Bureau evaluation on conflict prevention, and continue to monitor results against established Bureau targets and the 2008-2011 UNDP Strategic Plan. Support to measure BCPR’s gender outcomes will also continue with the production and dissemination of lessons learned and best practices. Early recovery will also be a focus area for M&E support.

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¹ The first evaluation was of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee cluster system and the second assessed the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Real Time Evaluation in Myanmar.