Baseline Values for CPAP Indicators

Description

The UNDP strives to attain the highest standards in programme and project management towards the delivery of national development results. To this end the organisation has put in place a rigorous M&E system to provide an independent assessment of development results at the country level.

The purpose of this portfolio is to establish and monitor key development indicators over the period of the current UNDP programming cycle (2009-2012). Considering this, NSCE was contracted to provide UNDP Sudan with professional support in the tracking of these indicators on an annual basis as a principal instrument in measuring and managing the performance of UNDP’s development interventions across North Sudan. Fieldwork took place in eight states comprising of Khartoum, Eastern Sudan, the Three Protocol Areas, and the Darfur Region.

This assignment relied upon an extensive desk review of secondary data, a large-scale survey in eight states across North Sudan comprising urban and rural communities and IDP camps, focus group discussions, key informant interviews. The thematic scope of the assignment covered seven different topics which are:

• MDG Monitoring and Aid Coordination;
• Combating HIV/AIDS, Malaria and TB;
• Democratic Governance;
• Local Governance and Service Delivery;
• Access to Justice and Rule of Law;
• Environmental Governance;
• Recovery from Conflict (including disarmament and reintegration of ex-combatants).

The indicator tracking activity has six objectives:

• Provide baseline values and monitor a set of key indicators to inform UNDP programming and stakeholders on the status of development results and factors influencing them;
• Monitor and track over a multi-year period progress towards the achievement of CPAP- based development results at the outcome and where appropriate the output level;
• Provide evidence-based data as a basis for management decisions in relation to fine-tuning programme development and strategy;
• Create an information base relating to programme results, which can be utilised to inform substantive final evaluation exercises and subsequent programming.
• Provide information to national counter parts, UN Agencies and other national stakeholders and create an evidence-based platform which can promote policy dialogue and debate on the UNDP’s support to Sudan’s national development goals
• Capture lessons learned and analyze issue through monitoring trends in programme development.

To evaluate CPAP outcome indicators, a system was put in place to track UNDP Sudan’s project activities to the outcomes. The Tracking Systems its measures focus on outcome and, as appropriate, output indicators. In order to assign value to said indicators, the approach followed the “outcome-output-project nexus” as per the UNDP M&E handbook.

Services

Project Management

• Develop project operational plan
• Monitoring progress and quality

Implementation

• Collect and review all project relevant documents
• Design evaluation questions, research tools and report outline

Fieldwork

• Design data collection training programme
• Implement data collection training
• Manage the field data collection in eight states

Final reporting

• Extensive statistical analysis of the quantitative data results
• Tabulation and interpretation of the qualitative data results
• Reporting on and presenting the study outcomes.