Management Response

: Bosnia Herzegovina
: 2012 - 2013 , Bosnia Herzegovina (CO)
: Proj 76742 "Promoting Gender Responsive Policies in the Western Balkans" Final evaluation
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: Bosnia Herzegovina
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: Approved
Recommendation: 1.    A regional approach to GRB programming should be continued as it provides an important opportunity for synergies, optimization of resources and the exchange of knowledge products, lessons learned and good practices.
Management Response: Agree.
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development, Knowledge management, Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Culture of results/RBM
UNEG Criteria: Sustainability, Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Full project proposal with a regional focus to be developed. CEESRO 2013/10 Completed N/A
Recommendation: 2.    A greater focus should be placed on capacity building at the institutional level in order to: a) further support the integration of gender into systems and processes (including strategic planning processes, budget templates/software and budget instructions); b) ensure institutional responsibility and capacity of the ministries of finance in leading, supporting and monitoring implementation of GRB throughout the budget process; c) build a pool of experts and trainers within government institutions and municipalities to support and advise on GRB implementation.
Management Response: Agree.
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018), Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018), Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Culture of results/RBM, Partnership, Operational activities, Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Capacity development at institutional level an within government institutions to be reflected in project design/planning. CEESRO 2013/10 Completed
Recommendation: 3.    Future capacity development interventions should focus on mentoring and supporting a ?learning-by-doing? approach so that government institutions and local governments are supported in their efforts to conduct gender analysis and integrate gender priorities and needs into their programmes and budgets. Capacity development assistance should rely on existing tools and resources that have been developed through the project rather than creating new knowledge projects. In providing technical assistance to civil servants and parliamentarians, UN Women should support the use of national and regional GRB experts.
Management Response: Agree.
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018), Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018), Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable, Operational activities, Partnership, Culture of results/RBM
UNEG Criteria: Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Reflect recommendations in project design/planning. CEESRO 2013/10 Completed
Recommendation: 4.    GRB should be further integrated into other areas of UN Women?s work in the region (in particular women?s economic empowerment and women, peace and security). The establishment of synergies between UN Women?s work on GRB (in capacitating local government to analyze and integrate gender needs and priorities) and its work related to the economic empowerment of women (capacitating women to define their needs and participate in budgetary processes), would directly support the achievement of important results. Related to UN Women?s work on women, peace and security and in supporting implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, there are also opportunities for further synergies with GRB programming, particularly in cases where gender analyses of security ministries have been conducted.
Management Response: Agree.
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018), Peace and security (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development, Advocacy, Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Culture of results/RBM, Partnership, Operational activities, Not applicable, UN Coordination
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Efficiency, Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Reflect recommendation in design of interventions related to WPS. CEESRO 2014/01 Completed Recommendations from GRP project were sent on 29 October 2013 to the current project manager of the Regional project on Women, Peace and Security with a request to reflect these in the proposals that are under preparation.
Recommendation: 5.    A key contributing factor to the achievement of project results has been the quality of GRB expertise and technical assistance provided by project staff as well as their in depth understanding about national priorities and needs. In order not to lose important momentum and institutional memory needed to sustain project results, UN Women should undertake all efforts possible to ensure continuity of current project management and staff.
Management Response: Agree.
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Peace and security (SPs before 2018), Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Advocacy, Capacity development, Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable, Operational activities, Partnership, Culture of results/RBM, UN Coordination
UNEG Criteria: Efficiency, Effectiveness, Gender equality
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Responsible Deadline Status Comments
UN Women should identify ways to keep the expertise. CEESRO/HQ 2013/12 Completed Project staff of the 2nd phase of the GRB project that was initiated in December 2014 are from the previous phase, except for the project coordinator of BiH who took another assignment outside of the country.
Recommendation: 6.    In order to further determine and assess future needs, UN Women, together with its project partners, should conduct a full analysis of the GRB-related sectoral changes achieved during implementation of the project in order to identify remaining capacity gaps. This is particularly relevant since the results of anticipated changes to the 2014 programmes and budgets were unknown at the time of this evaluation.
Management Response: Agree.
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Normative Support, Operational activities, UN Coordination
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Relevance
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
UN Women should conduct a full analysis of the GRB-related sectoral changes. CEESRO 2014/06 Completed As part of the analysis of the project baseline for the 2 phase, the recommendations of the evaluation was taken into consideration and the 2nd phase of the GRB will continue addressing remaining gaps
Recommendation: 7.    In future Project Documents for regional projects, the formulation of project results (in particular outcomes) should be broad and realistic for three countries and country-specific targets (rather than country-specific outcomes) should be defined (in co-operation with project partners and stakeholders) under the overarching project results in order to further customize and clarify the results expected for each country.
Management Response: Agree.
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Culture of results/RBM
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Relevance
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
RBM framework for future interventions needs to reflect country specific targets. CEESRO 2014/06 Completed The second Phase of the Regional GRP project is formulated with country specific targets under the overarching project results
Recommendation: 8.    A project-level performance measurement framework which consolidates expected results, indicators, baselines, targets and data sources into one framework should be developed at the start of the next phase of future programming. This will enable project management and staff to effectively measure progress and changes achieved throughout the project and enable results-based reporting. Connected with this, project management and staff should also develop effective systems and processes to better track data related to the results areas and explore ways to collect data on the different needs and uses of it knowledge products by different stakeholder groups.
Management Response: Agree.
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Description:
Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development, Knowledge management, Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Culture of results/RBM
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Relevance
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
PMF to be developed in early phase of future interventions. CEESRO 2014/07 Completed A team of experts is working on the development of the PMF. The final draft is expected in December 2014
Improved results tracking systems should be put in place. CEESRO 2014/07 Completed One of the table in the PMF report has the specifications of the periodicity of the data collection and the system.
Recommendation: 9.    UN Women should allocate necessary staff and budgetary resources to conduct pre- and post capacity and baseline assessments. For the current phase, capacity assessments should also be conducted at the end of the project, or prior to the start of the next phase, in order to assess current capacity levels and establish a baseline for future interventions. In order to collect and identify necessary baseline information to measure changes and results achieved through the project, it is also recommended that a baseline specialist be engaged early on in the next phase of the project.
Management Response: Agree.
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Description:
Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Efficiency
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Capacity Assessments and Baseline should be conducted in early phase of future interventions. CEESRO 2014/07 Completed The PMF report contain full baseline date for the 4 countries of project implementation and does to some extend capacity assessment.
Recommendation: 10.  Training on results-based management and M&E should be provided to future project staff in order to ensure an effective and consistent approach to monitoring, measuring and reporting on project results. It is suggested that such training be held at the beginning of the project and through the training, a project-level PMF be developed (which will enable immediate application of knowledge acquired through the training and ensure the full involvement of project staff in developing the framework).
Management Response: Agree.
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Description:
Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Culture of results/RBM
UNEG Criteria: Efficiency
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
M&E capacity development for project staff to be provided. CEESRO 2014/07 Completed Each project coordinator got RBM training in the respective office and we are planning to have another one during 2016.