Final PBS-ESAP2 Midterm Review Report sent to GoE July17
III. Implementation Progress and Contribution to Program Development Objectives (PDO) Contribution to the PBS Program Development Objectives 15. As part of the PBS2 and PBS3 citizens’ engagement component, ESAP2 contributes to three main
indicators within the former’s results framework. Based on the latest reporting available, 2 of the 3
indicators have been surpassed: as of end of March 2014, (i) woredas where PBS Social
Accountability Implementing Partners (SAIPs) facilitate the use of Social Accountability tools 223
against a target of 100 in 2013 from a baseline of zero; (ii) SAIP woredas that have developed joint
action plans for service quality improvement based on the interface meetings between service users
and providers are 80 against a target of 70. The third indicator, “Citizens’ who report that Woreda
officials have actively sought the views of people in their kebele on improving quality of public basic
services”, at 36% actual falls short of the 50% target at project effectiveness and a number of factors
deserve understanding with regard to the less than desired progress : i) the baseline and targets were
set based on ESAP1 experience when coverage and awareness among the citizenry were low, ii) the
36% actual, a finding of an operational evaluation undertaken by the MA in 2013 is almost one year
old and does not take into account the huge implementation that has happened over the last one year,
and iii) a more realistic actual will come from the operational impact evaluation that will be
undertaken at the close of the project. While it is anticipated that the trend will change for the FY15
target given the outstanding performance on the other two indicators as shown in the table below, it
could be that the falling trend in the indicator on citizens’ perceptions is also to do with the enhanced
awareness and increased expectations by the citizenry. Based on the performance across the 3
indicators and the rest of the ESAP2 program level indicators, the program is expected to positively
contribute to the PBS overall objectives.
