Final evaluation report of outcome II: basic and social services & infrastructure restoration to enhance community resilience

The purpose of this evaluation to appraise its Resilience Building and Early Recovery Programme and provide actionable recommendations to inform the agency's Country Programme. The Country Programme consists of the following intended outcomes:

Outcome 1: Households and communities benefit from sustainable livelihood opportunities, including economic recovery and social inclusion.
Outcome 2: Basic social services and infrastructure restored, improved and sustained to enhance community resilience in Syria.

This evaluation report covers Outcome 2. A separate evaluation of Outcome 1 was also conducted and may be read in parallel to provide a complete appraisal of UNDP's Country Programme Accordingly, this evaluation was designed to appraise Outcome 2 and in particular the following six programme components: Debris Management, Infrastructure Rehabilitation, Social Infrastructure Rehabilitation, Renewable Energy, Solid Waste Management, and Solid Waste Removal. This report also employs the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Assistance Committee's criteria to evaluate the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, sustainability and partnerships of Outcome 2.

Primary data collection activities comprised of a nationally-representative infrastructure development survey (1,511 respondents), as well as a total of 12 FGDs and 19 KIIs.

Secondary data collection activities comprised of an adaptive literature review of programme documents as well as relevant development and academic literature.