Climate Change and Environment

This report presents an evaluation of the Capacity Development Programme “Strengthened Institutions for Sustainable Climate”
(SISC). A programme funded by Sida for the period 2018-2024 and implemented in Ethiopia, Kenya, Moçambique, Rwanda, Uganda
and Zimbabwe. The evaluated programme is contribution #11786 Climate Change and Sustainable Cities (also known as
Strengthened Institutions for a Sustainable Climate (SISC)). The purpose of the assignment was to evaluate the innovative approach
used by the implementing partners and the internal cooperation between the implementing partners engaged in the programme, the
effectiveness of the cooperation, and to identify key lessons learned and recommendations for a potential future phase. The
evaluation concludes that while the intervention was a single programme in terms of budget and administrative structure, it can
better be described as a range of projects and processes loosely clustered into two sub-programmes. Recommendations from the
evaluators include continued support to capacity development programming, but fewer participating agencies, coordinated by a clear
lead agency and with continued conceptual development of the methodology.

The evaluation of phase 2 (2020-2023) of the Sida-funded Environment Governance Programme (EGP) assesses its two subprograms:
the EGP for Sustainable Natural Resource Management (EGP Mining) and the Partnership for Strengthened Environmental
Governance in the UN system (EGP Partnership). The EGP Mining, led by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and UNDP,
works in-depth with 10 countries and on global and regional level to exchange innovative policy approaches. The EGP Partnership
works with UNEP’s Sustainable UN facility, implementing the UN’s internal sustainability strategy. The evaluation concludes that the
EGP Mining’s Participatory Environmental Monitoring approach contributed to significant progress in local empowerment and
recommends enhancing the sustainability of this approach. The dual focus on empowerment and the normative set up was strong
although it is recommended to professionalise the advocacy agenda. The EGP Partnership is found to have contributed to the
implementation of the UN sustainability strategy. It is recommended that Sida should mobilize other member states to press for
greater progress on UN’s internal environmental management in future phases.