Introduction

Contraceptive Requirements and Logistics Management Needs

Training

Coordination and Collaboration

Monitoring and Evaluation

JOICFP-Executed Projects

Centres of Excellence for South to South Cooperation

Safe Motherhood Projects

HIV/AIDS Prevention Interventions

Implementing the Reproductive Health Approach

UNDAF Assessment

Nineteen ninety-eight was the first year that UNFPA's new monitoring and evaluation guidelines were applied. It was therefore a year of transition from the old system of project-focused reviews to one that emphasizes subprogramme and programme-level reviews. Under the new guidelines, annual project reports are prepared for each project, and these reports in turn serve as inputs to subprogramme reviews. Some UNFPA Representatives still chose to convene project review meetings for a more in-depth review of project implementation, while emphasizing issues of coordination and complementarity at the subprogramme level.

Allocations for external evaluation of UNFPA-supported projects continued to increase in 1998. These resources were used to support either mid-term or end-of-project evaluations. Such evaluations were undertaken by national and/or international consultants or by UNFPA Country Support Team advisers, or by a combination of the two. The most significant increase occurred in the evaluation of interregional programmes, because the review and assessment process related to the preparation of the next cycle of intercountry programmes. Following are some of the highlights of interregional programme evaluations.