The mid-term evaluation is due to be conducted in April-May 2007, approximately at the middle of the second year of project implementation to assist project management to verify the soundness of project objectives and related outputs and enable a response to rectify any problems.

This evaluation of UNCDF’s Local Development Programme (which has been running for approx. 2 years) can be considered parallel to UNDP’s related Support to Civil Service Reform Implementation and Decentralization in the four “Emerging Regions”, though maintaining different ToRs and evaluation reports in view of envisaged future collaboration in the Emerging Regions.

The UNDP programme is more focused on community empowerment than the UNCDF LDP, which is more focused on decentralized planning and delivery of basic infrastructure/services through the local government architecture, improved local public expenditure management, participatory planning.