Examples of Recipient Countries in a sentence
In particular, programme or Recipient Countries, lament the lack of country focus in IEO’s evaluations since country portfolio evaluations have been terminated.34 IEO’s program of work for 2019-2020 included three Strategic Country Cluster Evaluations (SCCEs).
Among the 23 responding Recipient Countries, only three had been members of Reference Groups for IEO evaluations and only 5 had been asked to comment on IEO’s and GEF Agencies’ draft Approach Papers and/or evaluation reports.
As mentioned earlier in the report, the ECWs are a good opportunity for IEO to interact with Recipient Countries, with 61% of responding Recipient Countries stating they had attended IEO sessions at ECWs. The most recent examples available of IEO presentations at ECWs include a mix of information on monitoring and evaluation, IEO and results of evaluations of relevance to the Constituency.
Furthermore, some stakeholders within the GEF Secretariat also noted that IEO is distant from the Recipient Countries.
Two thirds of the replies came from Recipient Countries, although the response rate from this group was the lowest.
In this respect, and despite an internal established deadline of three months, significant delays were noted in publishing evaluation reports after presentation at Council, which does not help diffusion and use.106 Council Members of Recipient Countries made a good case that translations into French and Spanish of at least the Executive Summaries of evaluation reports should be made available, both to facilitate their own preparation for Council and for more extensive use at country level.
The limited engagement with Recipient Countries was also confirmed in the interviews with their Council members.
The Panel interacted with GEF Recipient Countries through meetings with Council members and the e-survey questionnaire addressed to all PFPs and OFPs.71 One question about the relationship between IEO and recipient Member Countries was also included in the questionnaire for other groups of stakeholders.
Other Recipient Countries 69 Please refer to section 4.7 for an in-depth analysis of the quality of IEO’s evaluation reports.
A few OFPs and PFPs in Recipient Countries reported using OPS and APRs to learn about the major trends and performance of GEF Agencies, though all miss the country dimension and perspective they need for their strategic decisions.