Members of the Working Party were asked to indicate in which sectors and countries they are most active with development programmes. Thus, this matrix is a sort of self - appreciation of Member involvement in a particular sector and developing country. It is important to note that this matrix is not based on volume of aid disbursed by sector and country, nor on planned evaluations. The aim of this matrix is to facilitate the planning of future joint evaluations at sector level.
STOR Education Health & Population Water &. Sanitation Transport Energy COUNTRY Afghanistan Industry & Mining Flood Control Food Aid Private Sector Urban Dev. Communication Agriculture Environment Institution Reform Publ. Adm. Hum. Rights Democracy Ind. People Albania Algeria Humanit. Aid. Forestry Angola. (E). Argentina Armenia Azerbaijan Bangladesh IDA Netherl. m. Islam. DB.. IFAD WFP DC Belize Benin
Bhutan UNCDF Helvetas India (E) WHO UNCDF SNV??? India India India EU FAO SNV India India. Helvetas SNV WWF Bolivia Holland IDB IDB IDA Holland IDA IDB Holland Holland Botswana Brazil Burkina Faso Luxembou rg Burundi Cambodia
Cameroon Cape Verde Cent. African Republic. Luxembou rg, Chad Chile UNCDP (E) China (E (E) Costa Rica Columbia Congo Congo, Rep. (Zaire) Côte d'ivoire. () 1 Cuba Dominican Republic
Ecuador (E) Egypt El Salvador Italy Italy. Equat. Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Ireland UNESCO WHO Italy UNESCO Italy Gabon. (E) Italy Gambia Georgia
Ghana., (E),,, Guatemala Guinea Conakry Guinea Bissau,, Guyana Haiti Honduras India (E). (E) (E) (E) (E)
Indonesia Jamaica Jordan (E) (E) Kazakstan Kenya () (E), Korea, Dem. Republic (). Laos Lebanon Lesotho Liberia
Madagascar Malawi (E) Mali (E) Mauretania Mauritius Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Italy. Italy (E) Italy Italy WFP UNHCR WFP
Myanmar UNCDP (E) (E) Namibia (C) UN?? UN Nepal () () () Nicaragua. PAHO IDB (E) IDB (E) IDB IDB (E) IDB IDA Niger Nigeria Pakistan
Palestinian Adm. Area Papua Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Rwanda I- (E) San tome (E) Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia
South Africa (E) Sri Lanka Holland IFAD Sudan Swaziland Syria Tajikistan Tanzania Ireland UNESCO (E) (E). (E) (E) FAO Ireland (E) Ireland
Thailand (E) Togo Uganda (E), Viet Nam (E) IFG (E) () West Indies Yemen Zambia (E) (E)
Zimbabwe (E) (E) WHO Kuwait EIB IFAD Cook Islands Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Kiribati Maldives Marshall Islands Nauru Niue Palau Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga
Tuvalu Vanuatu Netherlands: M=major programs; m=minor programs E=evaluation planned : C=major program; H=program being phased out : include work with media and journalists; Food Aid includes all programs under PL480 emergency and development food aid; Humanitarian aid includes disaster prevention and democratic transition support 1()=Only in a limited scope : Programmes/projects termed Social and economic infrastructure are placed under Hum.Rights etc. in italics Ireland: Programmes/projects termed Training are placed under Education Australia: The Pacific Isles and The Maldives are placed at the end of the matrix
DAC Working Party on Aid Evaluation: Joint Sector Evaluations Feedback from the UN system FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) Sectors and countries of "interest" FAO s technical co-operation in the field is guided by the policy to support national initiatives to address priority concerns related to sustainable food security (covering production, supply and access, including poverty-alleviation, participation and natural resource management aspects) in the context of the World Food Summit Plan of Action, and more specially under the Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS). The SPFS is targeted on some 86 Low-Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs). FAO also assists countries in preventing and recovering from agricultural emergencies as well as in moving to rehabilitation and development (humanitarian aid), in co-operation with other UN and international agencies as well as with NGOs, but plans for future period are not available for obvious reasons. Plans for joint evaluation FAO s evaluation plan for 1998-99 is still tentative, but most likely FAO will be reviewing FAO s experience with participatory approaches under several programmes and related field projects. However, FAO has not conceived this exercise as a joint evaluation. ILO (International Labour Organisation) ILO has examined its Programme and budget for 1998/99 and found planned activities which refer to impact assessments and evaluations in individual sectors. In certain sectors more than one evaluation will be conducted. No information, however, is included regarding the country/ies to be covered by these evaluations. The geographical coverage of the studies will be determined in the annual work plans of the units concerned, once the implementation of the biennial programme started. ILO assumes that in most of the evaluations more than one country will be covered, since they will be discussed and followed up by representatives of the ILO constituency of the particular sector. ILO calls the attention to the fact that the individual sectors may be somewhat different from those included in the matrix. ILO will conduct evaluation studies in the following sectors: construction; agriculture (plantations) and other rural sectors; textiles and clothing (leather, footwear); basic metals; food (drink) and tobacco; miring; transport equipment manufacture; maritime and transport; shipping; fishing; public and private services (commerce); education. (International Organisation for Migration) stresses the fact that the sectors listed in the matrix do not correspond with the sectors used by the OD which made completing the matrix somewhat problematic. In addition, found that only a few of s activities fit within the matrix. Its migration for development programmes, assistance to demobilised soldiers, internally displaced persons, etc. seem not to fit within the parameters. There were also a number of countries not listed, for example, Bosnia-Herzegovina, where does have activities that would otherwise have fit. ( see matrix)
UNCTAD (UN Conference on Trade and Development) UNCTAD believes that this is a valuable exercise and a very good initiative, which has UNCTAD s support. UNCTAD understands that the matrix is meant to identify donors and funding agencies which may be interested in joint evaluation. However, UNCTAD is not a funding agency-and provides technical assistance as an executing or associated agency with funding provided by donors. The need for evaluation of a country or inter-country project is often provided for at the project formulation stage in agreement with the donor. Thus, it does not seem appropriate for UNCTAD to be listed in the matrix in the same context as donors and funding agencies. In addition to project evaluations, UNCTAD undertakes programme evaluations in consultation with the donors or its governing body. Such a programme evaluation takes into account country or inter-country projects which are the elements of that technical co-operation programme, but is not specific to any one country. (UN Drugs Control Programme) technical co-operation to reduce drugs supply is included under "agriculture"; to reduce drugs demand under "health and population"; and control measures under "institutional reform/public administration". (see matrix) (UN Development Programme) appreciates and supports the effort of identifying potential sectors for joint sector evaluations. It is important though, to be aware of the limits of an exercise of this kind. First of all, a lot of information is being lost in the process of compiling a matrix because each sector includes many different sub-sectors which may not qualify for a joint evaluation. Second, the need to limit the exercise to reasonable 16 sectors does at the same time exclude a number of important sectors. With s core mission being sustainable human development and the ultimate goal of poverty eradication some sectors of relevance to are: sustainable livelihood, advancement of women, rural development, HIV/AIDS (although it might fall under health & population) or sound governance (partly in institution. reform public. Adm. ). However, as a starting point the matrix is very useful. When a joint evaluation is being planned, suggests that in order to explore the interest of the UN system to participate in the evaluation, the UN Resident Co-ordinator in a given country may be contacted. (see matrix) UNESCO (UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation) UNESCO is in favour of co-ordinating evaluation efforts and joint sector evaluations. However, most of the evaluations concerning the Regular Programme are international or regional in focus, and not limited to a specific country. The information on project evaluations in individual countries will be ready by the end of the year or early 1999 only.
(UN Population Fund) For obvious reasons, all planned exercises are in the health and population sector. would appreciate being notified, particularly at the field level, when other organisations undertake country level evaluation and/or reviews in the health and population sector. The information provided in the matrix is tentative. s new monitoring and evaluation guidelines require that all country programmes be evaluated at the end of each programme cycle. Thus has indicated in the matrix those country programmes which are planned to be completed in the period 1998-2000. (see matrix) UNIDO (UN Industrial Development Organisation) UNIDO does not plan any country/industrial sector evaluations since UNIDO s evaluations are of the project type. Even in countries where UNIDO has a large programme, UNIDO s potential impact covers a tiny portion of the industrial sector and so it would be presumptuous to carry out sector evaluations as, for instance, the World Bank sector evaluations. However, UNIDO undertakes wider scope evaluations which cover its interventions in the developing world as a whole. UNIDO has two under completion, estimated for Feb. 1998: (a) industrial technology, (b) investment promotion. UNV (UN Volunteers) The Policy & Evaluation Group of UNV will be synthesising the information on evaluation planned in 1998/99 in specific sectors and countries in its Evaluation plan for 1998, which will be completed by end-january/early February 1998. UNV will provide more detailed information at that time. In the interim and in context of the major interests, UNV would like to draw the attention to the areas of strategic interest to UNV in the next four years. UNV has embarked on its "Strategy 2000" in 1997. The current strategy adopts a twin-track framework for the four-year period 1997-2000. UNV will continue to expand and improve existing areas and ways of work at the country level. Secondly, it will proactively build partnerships and explore innovative roles for volunteers with special linkages to issues of global concern, particularly those emanating from the Global Conferences of recent years. Attention will be paid to the following focus areas (-) urban development, (-) environmental management and (-) preventive/curative development (including activities aimed at good governance, popular participation, peace building and human rights). These areas mirror many of the interests of the DAC members. Therefore there may be scope to engage in interesting joint evaluations in which UNV s focus would be on evaluation and documenting the contributions that volunteers make to projects and programmes in these areas. WFP (World Food Programme) In addition to the two countries mentioned in the matrix (Bangladesh and Mozambique) WFP is currently in the process of further elaborating its programme of work for 1998 and therefore, it is too early to indicate its plans. Priority concerns are: evaluation of complex emergencies, effects of food assistance on special beneficiary groups, focus of food assistance in development programmes, feed back mechanisms for evaluation findings and lessons learned; enhancement of WFP s overall performance orientation and "evaluation culture". Donors are always welcome to participate in WFP evaluations. However, most of WFP s missions are not conceived as joint evaluations. In the field of humanitarian assistance, there has been lately a tendency to undertake these missions jointly with UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees). (see matrix)