Terminal Evaluation of the UNEP Project “Rapid Environmental Assistance for Crisis Affected Countries” PIMS 01983 / SMA 34823 (2017-2024)

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dc.contributor.approvalRecordDirector, Evaluation Office
dc.contributor.authorEvaluation Office of UNEP
dc.contributor.organizationEvaluation Office
dc.contributor.otherVictor Béguerie
dc.coverage.spatialAsia
dc.coverage.spatialSouthwest Asia
dc.coverage.spatialAfghanistan
dc.coverage.spatialWestern Asia
dc.coverage.spatialAzerbaijan
dc.coverage.spatialAfrica
dc.coverage.spatialWest Africa
dc.coverage.spatialBenin
dc.coverage.spatialAmericas
dc.coverage.spatialSouth America
dc.coverage.spatialAndean Region
dc.coverage.spatialColombia
dc.coverage.spatialSouth Asia
dc.coverage.spatialIndia
dc.coverage.spatialIraq
dc.coverage.spatialLebanon
dc.coverage.spatialNorth Africa
dc.coverage.spatialLibya
dc.coverage.spatialEast Africa
dc.coverage.spatialMauritius
dc.coverage.spatialNigeria
dc.coverage.spatialPakistan
dc.coverage.spatialState of Palestine
dc.coverage.spatialOceania
dc.coverage.spatialPapua New Guinea
dc.coverage.spatialSomalia
dc.coverage.spatialSouthern Africa
dc.coverage.spatialSouth Africa
dc.coverage.spatialSouth Sudan
dc.coverage.spatialSri Lanka
dc.coverage.spatialEurope
dc.coverage.spatialEastern Europe
dc.coverage.spatialUkraine
dc.coverage.spatialYemen
dc.date.accessioned2026-05-15T15:52:48Z
dc.date.issued2026-05
dc.descriptionThis report is a Terminal Evaluation of the UNEP project: “Rapid Environmental Assistance for Crisis Affected Countries”, implemented between 2017 and 2024. The project's overall goal was to save lives and reduce harmful impacts on human life, health, livelihoods, and to ecosystems from disasters and conflicts by rapidly providing affected countries and UN partners with the technical assistance and capacity to systematically and collaboratively address the environmental dimensions of disasters and conflicts. The evaluation sought to assess project performance (in terms of relevance, effectiveness and efficiency) and determine the sustainability of its results. The evaluation has two primary purposes: accountability and learning. Data collection methods included: in-depth interviews, survey questionnaires and document reviews. Data analysis was based on applying triangulated data to assess performance against a reconstructed Theory of Change and its causal pathways. With an overall performance rating of ‘Satisfactory’, the main findings include: i) the project demonstrated effective adaptive management, strong stakeholder engagement, and consistent fundraising success—confirming a clear demand for UNEP’s environmental assistance in crisis contexts; (ii) it demonstrated UNEP’s contribution to broader shifts in disaster and waste management approaches, with evidence of sustainability and replicability; and (iii) the request-based mechanism remains under-recognized; weak institutional prioritization, reduced capacity, funding constraints, and unclear positioning on disaster/conflict work, hindered the project’s full potential and future scalability. The main recommendations to UNEP are: (i) An internal tracking system should be put in place to systematically register all received requests and their chain of actions. (ii) The actual communication strategy should be clarified to be in line with how it was designed. (iii) The agreed SOPs of the UNEP Environmental Emergency Reserve Fund should be followed and made operational to improve its efficiency.
dc.description.fundingCountryJapan
dc.description.fundingCountrySweden
dc.description.fundingCountryNorway
dc.description.fundingCountryGermany
dc.description.fundingCountrySwitzerland
dc.description.fundingModalityUN body
dc.description.reviewStatusinternal review only
dc.description.statusFinal
dc.description.urihttps://www.unep.org/evaluation-office
dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/49527
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGOen
dc.rights.accessLevelPublic
dc.rights.copyrightUnited Nations Environment Programm
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/
dc.subject.sdgSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-Being
dc.subject.themedisasters, accidents and risk
dc.subject.themedisaster cleanup operation
dc.subject.themedisaster risk
dc.titleTerminal Evaluation of the UNEP Project “Rapid Environmental Assistance for Crisis Affected Countries” PIMS 01983 / SMA 34823 (2017-2024)
dc.typeEvaluation resource

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