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Final Evaluation of the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) Amerindian Development Fund: Village Economy Development under the Guyana REDD-plus Investment Fund (GRIF) (Phase 1)
Final Evaluation of the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) Amerindian Development Fund: Village Economy Development under the Guyana REDD-plus Investment Fund (GRIF) (Phase 1)
January 6, 2019
| The Amerindian Development Fund (ADF) has been established to provide support for the socio-economic and environmental development of Amerindian communities and villages, through the implementation of Community Development Plans. This report presents the findings of the final evaluation of the Low Carbon Development Strategy ADF Village Economy Development Project under the Guyana REDD-plus Investment Fund (GRIF) (Phase 1). The evaluation is concerned with reviewing outcomes and outputs delivered by the project from its approval in August 2012 until end of field activities in December 2014. As the evaluation takes place one year after the end of project activities, it has also been able to evaluate the sustainability of project outputs through assessing the current status of assets created by the project at the community level. The ADF1 project had three goals. First, it aimed to test a workable mechanism for disbursing funds to isolated Amerindian communities, as part of Guyana’s national low carbon development strategy, making use of funds put at the disposal of the Government of Guyana by the Government of Norway. Second, it envisaged elaborating a full-scale project document to expand the coverage of activities initially targeting 15% of Amerindian communities to all of them. Third, the project intended to strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs in transparently managing the main phase of the project, with minimal support from UNDP. The purpose of the evaluation is to assess a) project performance in terms of relevance, effectiveness and efficiency; b) sustainability of results and c) implications for the follow up ADF2 project. The evaluation is mostly focused on providing lessons for improvements in the way the ADF2 project is implemented. The primary audiences for the evaluation are the Government of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, UNDP, Amerindian communities, implementing partners and civil society actors. |