SGP: Follow up to Evaluation

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• SGP Follow up to Evaluation

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Main issues on SGP

• SGP is successful as well as cost-effective
  programme when compared with other similar
  (Evaluation of SGP)
• When considering changes to SGP management, must
  be assessment of financial, legal and human
  resources implications
• SGP will keep business as usual until end of
  GEF-4
• Some proposals will be assessed for GEF-5

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On graduation

• Concept of graduation should be based on
  principle of equity in accessing core resources
• Graduation should not indicate the end of a
  graduated country programme
• Neither does it indicate de-linking graduated
  country programmes from global SGP
• Rather graduation should indicate country is
  advanced in managing and sustaining SGP and fully
  prepared to take broader responsibilities in
  upgraded status
• Therefore, to avoid future misunderstanding,
  graduation should be re-phrased as upgrading of
  mature SGP country programmes

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Categorization of Country Programmes

• Would be convenient to categorize country
  programmes in terms of capacity and maturity.
  The following proposal will be considered
• All SIDS and LDCS ? no change in their access to
  core funding. For country programs in operation
  for less than 5 years, access to core fund
  proposed
• Country programmes in operation between 5 15
  years ? would gradually move towards being
  upgraded
• Country programmees in operation for more than 15
  years ? the most likely to be upgraded

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Issues for further analysis

• Evaluations conducted in time to allow country
  programmes to be assigned to appropriate
  category.
• Roles / responsibilities should be established
  for different categories of country programmes
• Clear, appropriate policies required to determine
  access to funding, funding levels and limits
  under the RAF
• In April 2008 Council Meeting 4 execution options
  for SGP were presented. To be decided which one
  is most preferred

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Looking ahead

• The policy paper to be presented in the next
  Council Meeting will cover
• An analysis of and policies for different
  categories of country programmes
• An assessment of alternative execution modalities
  and comparative capacities to provide needed
  services considering cost-effectiveness as well
  as legal, financial and human resources
  considerations