biodiversity and climate change) and others used in project documents. 5. The evaluation team conducts the evaluation, including at least one visit by GEF Evaluation Office representatives. 6. Prepare draft report. 7. The GEF Evaluation Office conducts a visit to present the draft report at a second consultation workshop with major stakeholders. 8. Prepare final report, which incorporates comments and is then presented to the GEF Council and the recipient government.
A.6 Output and Timetable The main output of the evaluation will be a report, the GEF country portfolio evaluation. Following GEF Evaluation Office practice, the report will be discussed with the government of the Philippines, other national stakeholders (including project staff), the GEF Secretariat, and the GEF Agencies. Comments will be requested from them on factual
issues. The final report, a document from the GEF Evaluation Office, will be presented to the Council for its information. The evaluation will be conducted between January and May 2007, with the final report to be presented to Council at its June 2007 meeting. The key milestones of the evaluation are presented in table A.2.
Notes 1. Relevance: the extent to which the objectives of the GEF activity are consistent with beneficiaries’ requirements, country needs, global priorities, and partner and donor policies; efficiency: a measure of how economically resources/inputs (funds, expertise, time, and so on) are converted to results. 2. Results: the output, outcome, or impact (intended or unintended, positive and/or negative) of a GEF activity; effectiveness: the extent to which the GEF activity’s objectives were achieved or are expected to be achieved, taking into account their relative importance. 3. These inputs are working documents and are not expected to be published as separate documents.
Table A.2
Evaluation’s Key Milestones Milestone
Deadline
1. Desk review of country and IA/ExA information
January 8, 2007
2. GEF Evaluation Office field mission to launch evaluation, present terms of reference to government and other GEF stakeholders, and conduct a few field visits
January 21–26, 2007
3. Project review protocol and questionnaires
January 31, 2007
4. Global environmental benefits assessment for Samoa
February 28, 2007
5. Desk review of all national GEF projects
February 1–March 15, 2007
6. Interviews with stakeholders
January 31–February 28, 2007
7. Draft report
March 12–20, 2007
8. First draft
March 22, 2007
9. National workshop to present preliminary conclusions and results
March 29, 2007
10. Prepare final country portfolio evaluation report, which incorporates comments from stakeholders
April 27, 2007
11. Presentation to GEF Council
June 12, 2007
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