9-10 December GPAR Luang Prabang ARM 2010 GPAR LP II GPAR Luang Prabang Phase II: Decentralized Participatory Governance and Service Delivery Reform Project ID Annual Project Review Outputs 2010 Outputs 2010

09-10 December GPAR Luang Prabang ARM 2010 GPARLP - Phase 2  Phase 2 Project began 1/1/2006 and will end 31/12/2010.  Total Budget (US$): o Sida: 2,500,000 o UNDP : 589,000 o Total: 3,089,000 o Remaining: 6,850 (estimate)  2010 Budget: o UNDP + Sida 414,957

December GPAR Luang Prabang ARM 2010 GPARLP - Phase 2 Focus areas during 2010:  Complete activities as defined in AWP 2010  Phasing out and prepare for closing  consolidation for sustainability or  smooth closing down of activity  Documentation  Lessons learned  GPAR beyond 2010

December GPAR Luang Prabang ARM 2010 GPARLP – Outcome Expected outcome: Sustainable improvements in provincial policies, administrative practices and capacities which will: (1) improve availability, reliability and responsiveness of pro-poor services (2) enable greater transparency and citizens’ participation in governance, and (3) strengthen clarity and accountability in delivering services to citizens

December GPAR Luang Prabang ARM 2010 “ The achievement of the project in terms of its intended outcome has been very substantial in terms of improvements in administrative practices and capacities. This has resulted in more visible, reliable, responsive, accountable, pro-poor services delivery occurring within the districts, Kumbans and villages where the project has been operating.” (Evaluation Report, 2010) GPARLP – Overall Outcome achievements

December GPAR Luang Prabang ARM 2010 GPAR LP II Outputs Six outputs have contributed to the outcome: 1. Strengthened decentralized administration 2. Public service delivery reforms in H and E 3. Business Facilitation Centre (BFC) 4. Provincial oversight (SDIS) 5. GPAR support facility (SDF) 6. PAR Resource Centre

December GPAR Luang Prabang ARM 2010 GPARLP – Output 1: Strengthened Decentralised Administration  Installed fibre-optic cabling within DoF  Computer training on PIMS  Retraining of staff in LP on ODS  Capacity building of PCAW at Prov. and Dist.  Provincial socio-economic review meetings  Capacity building of district cabinet offices  Kumban socio-economic development

December GPAR Luang Prabang ARM 2010 GPARLP – Output 2: Public Service Delivery Reform – Health and Education  Training on office administration for health staff in 12 districts  Training on strategic Planning skills at provincial and district level for DoH and district level for DoH  Primary mother-child health care services by mobile team in five districts  Volunteer teacher training in five districts

December GPAR Luang Prabang ARM 2010 GPARLP – Output 3: Business Facilitation Centre in DPI  Establishment of Web Site for business promotion, accessible directly from www  Lessons learning workshop on business promotion for DPI  Workshop on job descriptions for DPI

December GPAR Luang Prabang ARM 2010 GPARLP – Output 4: Provincial oversight - SDIS  Provincial workshops with all district on SDIS operational modalities and strengths & weaknesses  7 weeks national consultancy on clarification and strengthening SDIS for future sustainability  Training of leadership on use and application of SDIS information for strategic planning

December GPAR Luang Prabang ARM 2010 GPARLP – Output 5: Service Delivery Fund (SDF)  12 project contracted and implemented, mostly clean water and sanitation projects, but also agriculture, schools, and support to LWU  102 % of budget spent (target was 80 %)

December GPAR Luang Prabang ARM 2010 GPARLP – Output 6: GPAR Resource Centre (GRC) at OoG  No specific activities to establish GRC as it was already established  Other activities under output 6: o Lessons learned workshop o LP Administrative Improvement Plan and proposal for GPAR in LP after 2010 o Review meeting with all TOTs and training manuals review o ICT training and web site for GRC

December GPAR Luang Prabang ARM 2010 GPARLP: Sustainability  Sustainability of systems:  GFIS, PIMS ongoing and well mainstreamed  SDIS less well integrated and needs further attention to be sustainable  ODS (LP) and BFC well functioning and mainstreamed  Training activities: All training activities completed (outputs achieved); sustainability depends on future staff transfers and institutionalization of enhanced capacity

December GPAR Luang Prabang ARM 2010 GPARLP: Sustainability  Organisational development with job descriptions in DOH and DOE is well integrated in DOH and DOE is well integrated and sustainable and sustainable  SDF supported projects are all completed and in most cases useful vis-a-vis their purposes most cases useful vis-a-vis their purposes  GPAR Resource Centre in OoG is established and mainstreamed – future usefulness and and mainstreamed – future usefulness and sustainability depends on budget allocations. sustainability depends on budget allocations.

09 – 10 December GPAR Luang Prabang ARM 2010 GPARLP: Documentation for Closing  Lessons learned report prepared and a 3 pages summary as per UNDP requirement pages summary as per UNDP requirement  Final Project Report prepared  Inventory of equipment prepared and verified  Last budget review with calculation of unspent balance unspent balance

December GPAR Luang Prabang ARM 2010 GPARLP: Final Accounting The Project Accountant will be retained for 5 months, January – May 2011, for any Administrative issue, final accounting and facilitation of auditing All Project activities expected to be finalised by 31 December 2010.

December GPAR Luang Prabang ARM 2010 GPARLP: - after 2010  Great stakeholder interest in LP whether a successor project/programme will materialise a successor project/programme will materialise  Administrative Improvement Plan for LP with list of identified needs and priority with list of identified needs and priority interventions prepared in 2009 and updated in interventions prepared in 2009 and updated in 2010 based on participatory process 2010 based on participatory process  Preliminary proposal for GPAR in LP 2011 – 15 prepared on basis of Improvement Plan 15 prepared on basis of Improvement Plan