partnerships, the role of UNDP would increas-
ingly tend towards the inclusion of the most
vulnerable and marginalized stakeholders. At the
same time, the increased involvement of the
European Union, its member countries and other
bilateral agencies will mean that they may also
need to utilize UNDP experience in their future
interventions, especially at the local level.
5. While capacity development has been at the
centre of many UNDP interventions, limited use
has been made of the tools and approaches that
UNDP has developed at the corporate level.
Inadequate use of capacity assessments has led to
reduced effectiveness and efficiency of interven-
tions, and limited sustainability of results. At the
same time, project design has sometimes led to
inefficient approaches to capacity development.
For example, instead of UNDP and its partners
training all participants, appropriate institutes
at local, regional and national levels could
have been strengthened in order to initially focus
on producing local specialists to take over
subsequent capacity development activities.
Where UNDP has used this approach in
Uzbekistan, it has been successful—the approach
needs to be replicated across all activities.
6. There is a need for UNDP to increase its
learning from experience and to facilitate
greater opportunities for national learning
from its interventions.
All UNDP interventions should provide lessons
that can support not only its own activities, but
also those of its partners. Specifically, greater
effort needs to be made to link lessons learned to
national policy development. Likewise, UNDP
needs to build on its successes in scaling-up, as in
the ELS/ABD interventions, and to ensure an even
greater scope of regional and national replication.
Evaluation and monitoring practices should also
be strengthened, and a culture of focusing on
results should be established. Learning from
previous experience will not only improve
intervention
efficiency, but
also
improve
effectiveness. In this respect, the international
dissemination of experiences, lessons learned and
best practices should be strengthened. There are
Central Asian countries that could benefit from
Uzbekistan’s experience, while those of others in
the broader region could offer Uzbekistan lessons
in return. With its global network, UNDP is in a
position to facilitate this information exchange.
6.2
RECOMMENDATIONS
1. In agreement with government, focus the
programme on a smaller number of strategic
interventions where UNDP has clear comparative
strengths, is able to offer a long-term commit-
ment and, through relevant partnerships, is
able to address the underlying issue in a
comprehensive manner.
Make efforts to ensure UNDP activities are in
line with those set out in its strategic plan and are
in areas where it has comparative strengths in
Uzbekistan, while remaining responsive to
national priorities. Where there is national
demand for inter-ventions outside these areas,
UNDP should facilitate the development of
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