Final report for Mid-Term evaluation of the UN One COVID 19 response plan - 06 2022
This report provides the findings of the “Mid-term Evaluation of European Union (EU) support to the United Nations One United Nations (UN) Response Plan to COVID-19 in Nigeria”.
The main objectives of this evaluation are to provide an overall independent assessment of the past performance of the EU Support to the United Nations ‘One UN Response Plan to COVID-19 in Nigeria’, paying particular attention to its intermediate results measured against its expected objectives, and the reasons underpinning such results, key lessons learned, conclusions and related recommendations in order to improve current and future interventions.
According to the ToR, the focus of the evaluation is on the assessment of the achievements, the quality and the results of the interventions.
This evaluation will provide an understanding of the cause-and-effect links among inputs, activities, and outputs, outcomes and impacts.
The evaluation pays particular attention to the results measured as follows:
- Result 1: Improved rapid procurement of disease commodity packages for surveillance, prevention and control, and clinical management.
- Result 2: Complementary On-going Risk Communication Strategies for sustained community engagement and cooperation are supported.
- Result 3: Development of tailored and decentralized response strategies at state-level aligned to the coordinated framework at the Federal level is supported.
- Result 4: Access to essential health services are maintained through socio-economic analytics, and pro-active early recovery and social protection activities, targeting vulnerable groups.
- Result 5: Capacities for R&D and Modelling are strengthened.
- Result 6: Coordination of partnerships and mobilisation of resources for collective response are improved.
This evaluation will specifically serve to:
- Understand the performance of the Intervention, how quickly UNDP, leading the One UN Basket Fund has put the programme into action.
- Evaluating the quality of results achieved by implementing UN agencies, its enabling factors and those hampering a proper delivery of results in order to adjust its design or implementing modalities.
- Analysing the contribution of the various projects to the achievement of objectives and results of the overall programme.
- Elaborate some recommendations to strengthen the coordination and synergies among the various projects and with stakeholders.
- Establishing linkages between this programme and the contributions of other development partners and flag the possible discrepancies/lack of synergies.
- Identifying the features of the programme that could be replicated and scaled up;
- 13. Analysing the sustainability of the actions and recommendations for the exit strategy.
