Sierra Leone

The Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) conducted a country-level evaluation, an Assessment of Development Results (ADR) in Sierra Leone in 2013. The ADR is an independent evaluation aimed at capturing and demonstrating evaluative evidence of UNDP’s contribution to development results and its strategic positioning in the country.

The Independent Evaluation Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) undertook an Assessment of Development Results (ADR) in Sierra Leone in 2013. The ADR is an independent country-level evaluation aimed at capturing and demonstrating evaluative evidence of UNDP’s contribution to development results and its strategic positioning in the country. It provides stakeholders with an objective assessment of UNDP’s work and evaluates the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability of UNDP support to national priorities and programmes.

This chapter contains an assessment framed by the six major outcome areas as adapted for the ADR assessment process covering the period 2008-2012. The assessment of each outcome area begins with an analysis of national context and strategy and then presents UNDP’s strategy to support these national efforts to contribute to the achievement of the outcomes. Specific programmatic and project interventions are then identified together with an assessment by the evaluation criteria of relevance, effectiveness and efficiency of the outcome level. Finally, for each outcome area, relevant factors that explain the level of performance are identified.

This chapter presents a brief analysis of the programme in Sierra Leone in terms of its strategic position, relevance and also responsiveness to the promotion of key UN values, namely gender mainstreaming, use of networks and South-South cooperation.

The Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of UNDP would like to thank all those who contributed to this evaluation. The evaluation team, led by Chandi Kadirgamar from the IEO (with thematic responsibility for democratic institutions and youth employment), consisted of Rajeev Pillay (public sector reform, local governance and service delivery, justice and human rights, and finance for development), and Dunstan Spenser (environmental cooperation and peacebuilding). The assessment also drew on the work undertaken by Cheikh Faye who undertook the outcome evaluation of the elections programme.

It gives me great pleasure to present the Assessment of Development Results (ADR) in the Republic of Sierra Leone. This is the first ADR assessment of UNDP’s contribution to Sierra Leone and covers the period 2008-2012. Specifically, the ADR focused on the previous 2008-2010 Country Programme Document (CPD) (which was extended by the UNDP Executive Board until 2012), and covered as much as possible of the ongoing 2013-2014 CPD. The findings and recommendations of the ADR were discussed at a stakeholder workshop held in Freetown on 8 July 2014 attended by almost 70 stakeholders who shared their comments on the report and provided feedback on the role and future potential contribution of UNDP in the context of the next country programme.