The  project objective is: The governance capacity of Ulaanbaatar Municipality for  the integration of energy efficiency in the construction sector is  strengthened. EEP consists of the following four components:    

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Component 1- Public Investment Management (PIM),    

Component 2- Local Energy Efficiency Action Plan (LEEAP),    

Component 3- Private Sector Involvement in Energy Efficiency (EE),    

Component 4- Thermo-Technical Refurbishment of Public Buildings  (TTR).    

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Services we provided were focused on meeting the required high methodical  quality standards of GIZ central project evaluations it is essential for the  evaluation team to (1) gain a profound understanding of the evaluation  object, cover all important aspects of the project and the stakeholders  perspectives, (2) establishing evaluability i.e. the examination of the  project's results logic (theory of change), the collection of evaluation  questions from the partner and target group perspective and finally (3) the  examination of available data, among other things, from the partner systems.  (4) A carefully prepared inception report written by the evaluation team and  approved by the Evaluation Unit and SDC Mongolia is the result of this  inception phase.    

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The inception phase includes a preliminary semi-remote or remote (due to  COVID restrictions) inception mission with the following work steps:    one or two-day workshop with the project team for (re)-constructing the  results model, formulating results hypotheses, defining and understanding the  evaluation object,    SMART analysis of indicators, checking data availability, monitoring  (partner) systems and observation tools (KOMPASS), defining evaluation basis,  especially for the impact criteria, working together with the project team on  the efficiency tool developed by the Evaluation Unit, identifying relevant  interview partners, updating the stakeholder map and if possible, identifying  a control group, specifying the involvement of partners and target group,  collecting evaluation questions of the stakeholders and eventually conducting  explorative interviews    

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The evaluation mission is based on preparations during the inception phase,  the evaluation mission intends to collect the necessary data for the  evaluation by conducting interviews with the involved stakeholders and by  other methods defined in the inception phase. Data are then analysed,  triangulated, assessed and validated systematically. Based on the findings,  the evaluation report is elaborated.