Support to National Environmental Weeks 2019 and Evaluation Support to National Environmental Weeks 2019 and Evaluation Sidas stöd till Malis årliga miljöutbildningsveckor och uppsökande verksamhet på temat som knyter samman världsmiljödagen (5 juni) och världsdagen för att bekämpa ökenspridning och torka (17 juni) för 2019 samt utvärdering av stödet till tidigare miljöutbildningsveckor. Sida' s support to Mali yearly Environmental Education Weeks and Outreach linking the World Environment Day (June 5) and the World Anti- Desertification Day (June 17) for 2019 and a throughout Evaluation of past editions. The global objective of Mali Environmental weeks is :
To develop an environmental framework partnership with all categories of stakeholders for a positive behavior change to sustain the world's common asset
To evaluate past events in terms of success and failures in order to propose inovations in terms of content, methodology and the scope of environmental weeks.
The specific objectives are:• To highlight the environmental challenges and to share the stakes with the grassroots• To generate an open debate on desertification, soil erosion, the biological diversity, the lack of sanitation, the control of pollutions, the global land warming, the sustainable management of lands, the integrated Water Resources Management and the public- private partnership in forests and fauna resources sustainable management• To build a fecund partnership for the environmental protection and the improving of the life habitat in collaboration of all stakeholders: public bodies, municipalities, civil society, and private sector, donors ‘community and research bodies/universities.• To contribute to inverse the natural resources degradation trends through a positive behavior change in a sustainable development perspective• To convince the stakeholders to respect environmental restoration and to invest in it• To optimize positive and daily behavior change towards environmental protection individually and collectively.
Since 2000, the yearly editions of the event have never been evaluated even though Sida has noted an increased ownership by the government and its increased funding contribution which has reached 50 % of the annual budget while this was less than 5% recently. Despite, this positive trend, no exhausted evaluation has been conducted in order to know:• The success (What worked?)• The weaknesses (What has less worked)) • The type of activities to be reduced or abandoned• The activities to amplify• The innovations to introduce.Therefore, Sida has suggested in line with its monitoring and evaluation requirements in development cooperation, that a throughout evaluation is made on the past nineteen years educational events. This evaluation has been funded by Sida but initiated and commissioned by the government of Mali (National Agency for Environment and sustainable development- AEDD) in close collaboration with the Embassy of Sweden in Mali and other stakeholders including government bodies, Civil Society and Private sector members as well as the public at large. It was intended to identify potential Programme design problems, assess progress towards the achievement of objectives, identify and document lessons learned (including lessons that might improve design and implementation of a potential subsequent phase and to make recommendations regarding specific actions that might be taken to improve the Programme design). In summary:
• The evaluation will assess Programme performance using the following criteria: relevance, effectiveness and sustainability. All evaluation criteria and assessments should consider gender and the data to be collected should be disaggregated accordingly.
• The evaluation will identify and describe the main lessons learned from the Programme performance in terms of awareness raising, strengthening of technical and financial capacity, efforts to secure sustainability and approaches and methodologies used.
The following specific objectives are intended to be achieved through the evaluation:
• To make an overall inventory of activities undertaken during the past events and to analyze their receptivity by target groups and their impact on environmental protection• To assess the outcomes and impacts of the events in terms of positive behavior change of the population mainly youth and women vis à vis the environment • To analyze the appropriateness of the methodology used in terms of strengths, weaknesses constraints and opportunities • To assess the level and the quality of various stakeholders (donor community, government bodies, Civil Society, Private Sector, schools /Universities, youth, women etc.)• To formulate concrete and specific recommendations to guide the improvement possibilities of future editions including a possible labialization.