| Overview : RE-ADVERTISED The overall goal of the project is sustainable land management that provides the basis for economic development, food security and sustainable livelihoods while restoring the ecological integrity of the cattle corridor ecosystem. This project was designed to provide land users and managers with the enabling policy, institutional and capacity environment for effective adoption of SLM within the cattle corridor production system, which goal would be achieved through 3 major outcomes including: - The policy, regulatory and institutional environment support sustainable land management in the cattle corridor ( in particular policy and legislation for sustainable charcoal and the security of tenure strengthened);
- Knowledge based land use planning forms basis for improving drylands farming and pastoralism for sustainable economic development (Capacity for land use planning developed and utilized);
- Local economic development facilitated through diversification and access to finance and insurance;
- Project managed effectively and lessons used to upscale SLM in the cattle corridor districts and the country.
At mid-term, a review was carried to assess the implementation of the project as well as the extent to which it had achieved its intended objectives and results, and generating lessons learnt to guide the implementation of the remaining activities of Project. MTR findings highlighted that the project is relevant for both the communities , the districts and Uganda as a nation in their needs to alleviate poverty through improved land productivity, and relevant for the implementation of the UNCCD. The MTR highlighted that the project had significant impacts at the community and district levels and its institutional framework was good enough to ensure sustainability of results at the national, sector level, at district and community levels. The project built capacity of districts to mainstream SLM into their development plans and budgets, trained established CBOs in resource mobilization and carried out activities that addressed long term environmental challenges and addressed all risks that would deter sustainability. The review noted that the project contributed to the United Nations Development Assistance Framework outcome focusing on supporting development of sustainable livelihoods and employment for vulnerable segments of the population in Uganda, through building the capacity of the UNCCD Focal Point, improving agricultural systems for increased productivity, reducing economic and gender disparities, environmental shocks and recovery; and to National Development Plan by spearheading the smallholder productivity revolution in Uganda that systematically integrates Sustainable Land Management [SLM] in the agricultural production systems. Overall, the project was rated as proceeding in the right track but needed to scale up the activities. The Terminal Evaluation (TE) will be conducted according to the guidance, rules and procedures established by UNDP and GEF as reflected in the ‘UNDP Guidance for Conducting Terminal Evaluations of UNDP-supported, GEF-financed Projects’ (2012), henceforth referred to as ‘TE Guidance’. The overall objective of this TE is to assess the extent of achievement of the intended long term results defined in the PRODOC, and identify opportunities, challenges and lessons learnt during implementation, and determine relevance of a next phase of programming. The specific objectives of the TE are to:- - assess the extent to which project activities have delivered global environmental benefits;
- identify the impact of project activities on the target beneficiaries, particularly regarding local economic development;
- Identify the changes in the policy/regulatory environment and the effects they have on SLM/sustainable charcoal production in Uganda;
- Identify results of the project that should be scaled up into the rest of the country.
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