Darwin Plus:
Overseas Territories Environment and Climate Fund
Final Report
Important note To be completed with reference to the Reporting Guidance Notes for Project Leaders:
it is expected that this report will be a maximum of 20 pages in length, excluding annexes
Darwin Project Information
Project Ref Number
Project Title
Territory(ies)
Contract Holder Institution
Partner Institutions
Grant Value
Start/end date of project
Project Leader
Project website
Report author and date
Note: please remove the blue guidance notes from all sections before submission.
This report should be sent in Word only (if you have concerns about layout you may submit a
pdf but this is in addition to a Word version). If you have already answered a question in one
section, do not repeat the information in another section, but refer back to the section number.
Each section contains questions to guide the completion of the report. Not all questions/
sections have to be answered – Project Leaders should exercise judgement as to those
most relevant to the project. As far as possible, reports should provide evidence to support
what you say.
1
Project Overview
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Briefly describe the location (with a map if possible) of the project.
Please describe the problem your project was trying to address.
What environmental/climate change challenge was the project designed address?
Why are these challenges relevant and for whom? How did you identify these
problems?
What was the project designed to do to address these challenges?
2
Project Achievements
2.1
Outcome
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Did the project achieve its intended Outcome (as laid out in the application unless a
change was approved)? What evidence/indicators can you present to substantiate this?
i.
If your project did not fully achieve the project Outcome what was the reason for
this? Was it due to factors outside your control? If so had you identified these
risks? If it was due to factors outside your control please comment on what
actions you took to recover from this?
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How has the project helped to deliver long-term strategic outcomes for the natural
environment in the Overseas Territory(ies)?
i.
Describe what the project has achieved and what will change as a result of the
project.
ii.
Has the project influenced wider decision making and in any way helped embed
environmental issues into decision making?
iii.
Please describe the impact(s) of the project and how it has delivered value for
money.
Section 2.1 should be brief and concise and no more than 2 pages long. Please reference
indicators and any other sources of evidence to substantiate your comments. Try to consider
the impact and outcome of activities as well as achievements.
2.2
Outputs
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What outputs did you set out in your application and have these been met? Concentrate
on the actual changes achieved rather than listing a series of activities undertaken.
Activity does not necessarily mean a change has occurred.
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Did the project encounter problems, either anticipated or unexpected, in achieving the
outputs, and how were they resolved? If so had you identified these in the
assumptions? How were they resolved?
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Please substantiate comments with evidence and use indicators.
2.3 Sustainability and Legacy
Which project achievements are most likely to endure? What steps or actions were taken to
ensure the impact of the project will endure after the project closure?
What will happen to project staff and resources now the project funding has ceased?
3
Project Stakeholders
Darwin Plus projects should engage/support key stakeholders. Please describe the support/
engagement/involvement of stakeholders throughout the project.
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To what extent were stakeholders involved in project planning and decision making?
Have there been particular achievements, lessons or challenges when engaging
with the stakeholders?
Lessons learned
What lessons learned/failures/challenges have emerged from the management of this project?
Could this knowledge be of benefit to the wider Darwin community? Consider the following:
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Was the project management structure suitable for this style of project?
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4.1
Did you have the right sort of expertise employed on the project?
Was the project well planned e.g., was it based on a good understanding of the
underlying issues? Had you correctly identified the problems in the application form?
Was the timeframe realistic?
Did you allocate sufficient resources to the problem outlined?
Any other lessons you could draw out from this project that could be useful?
Monitoring and evaluation
Please record any major changes in the project design and how these changes were adapted
into project design and the ability of the project to achieve project goals. Looking back over the
life of the project, was the M&E system practical and helpful to provide useful feedback to
partners and stakeholders?
During the project period, has there been an internal or external evaluation of the work or are
there any plans for this? Note succinctly the key findings from any evaluation and whether
these were useful for the project.
4.2
Actions taken in response to annual report reviews
For those that have received feedback from annual reports, have you responded to all issues
raised in the reviews of your annual reports? Please use this section as an opportunity to
comment on any outstanding issues. Have you discussed the reviews with your partners and
other collaborators?
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Darwin Identity
Please outline any publicity the project has received and the impact this will have on the
sustainability and legacy of the project.
What effort has the project made to publicise the Darwin Initiative, e.g. where did the project
use the Darwin Initiative logo and promote Darwin funding opportunities or projects?
Was the Darwin Initiative support recognised as a distinct project with a clear identity or did it
form part of a larger programme?
To what extent is there understanding of Darwin Initiative within in the host country and who is
likely to be familiar with it?
6
Finance and administration
This section seeks information about the finances of your project since your last annual
report. Please amend the financial years in the tables to suit the reporting period and
add/remove rows in the sub-tables if necessary.
6.1
Project expenditure
Complete the expenditure table below, providing a breakdown of salaries, capital items and
explanations of ‘Other’ costs. If the budget was changed since the project started, please
clarify the main differences. Explain in full any significant variation in expenditure where this
is +/- 10% of the approved budget lines.
Project spend (indicative)
since last annual report
2015/16
Grant
(£)
2015/16
Total actual
Darwin
Costs (£)
Variance
%
Comments (please explain
significant variances)
Staff costs
Consultancy costs
Overhead Costs
Travel and subsistence
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Operating Costs
Capital items
Others
TOTAL
Staff employed
(Name and position)
Cost
(£)
Consultancy – description of breakdown of costs
Other items – cost (£)
TOTAL
TOTAL
Capital items – description
Capital items – cost (£)
TOTAL
Other items – description
Other items – cost (£)
TOTAL
6.2
Additional funds or in-kind contributions secured
Please confirm the additional funds raised for this project. This will include funds indicated at
application stage as confirmed or unconfirmed, as well as additional funds raised during the
project lifetime. Please include all funds relevant to running the project as well as levered funds
for additional work after the project ends. NB: the total of both these sections is the figure
required for Annex I, Q26.
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Were any additional in-kind contributions secured during the project?
Source of funding for project lifetime
Total
(£)
Source of funding for additional work after project lifetime
Total
(£)
TOTAL
TOTAL
6.3
Value for Money
Provide comment on the value for money provided by this project. Was it good value for
money? What evidence can you provide to support this? Value for money doesn’t mean we are
looking for the cheapest things, but that the desired output was achieved at the lowest price.
Annex 1
Standard Measures
The Standard Measures represent a 21 year dataset of brief statistics of Darwin Projects. They
largely comprise a series of inputs, activities and outputs or deliverables. Projects are not
evaluated according to quantity of Standard Measures and completing Annex I is optional, but
collecting information on these Measures are still useful. That is – projects that report few
standard measures are not seen as being of poorer quality than those projects which can report
against multiple standard measures.
Please quantify and briefly describe all project standard measures using the coding and format
of the Darwin Initiative Standard Measures. Download the updated list explaining standard
measures from http://darwin.defra.gov.uk/resources/reporting/. If any sections are not relevant,
please leave blank.
Code
Description
Totals (plus additional detail as
required)
Training Measures
1
Number of (i) students from the UKOTs; and (ii)
other students to receive training (including
PhD, masters and other training and receiving a
qualification or certificate)
2
Number of (i) people in UKOTs; and (ii) other
people receiving other forms of long-term (>1yr)
training not leading to formal qualification
3a
Number of (i) people in UKOTs; and (ii) other
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Code
Description
Totals (plus additional detail as
required)
people receiving other forms of short-term
education/training (i.e. not categories 1-5
above)
3b
Number of training weeks (i) in UKOTs; (ii)
outside UKOTs not leading to formal
qualification
4
Number of types of training materials produced.
Were these materials made available for use by
UKOTs?
5
Number of UKOT citizens who have increased
capacity to manage natural resources as a
result of the project
Research Measures
6
Number of species/habitat management plans/
strategies (or action plans) produced for/by
Governments, public authorities or other
implementing agencies in the UKOTs
7
Number of formal documents produced to assist
work in UKOTs related to species identification,
classification and recording.
8a
Number of papers published or accepted for
publication in peer reviewed journals written by
(i) UKOT authors; and (ii) other authors
8b
Number of papers published or accepted for
publication elsewhere written by (i) UKOT
authors; and (ii) other authors
9b
Number of computer-based databases
enhanced (containing species/genetic
information). Were these databases made
available for use by UKOTs?
9a
Number of species reference collections
established. Were these collections handed
over to UKOTs?
9b
Number of species reference collections
enhanced. Were these collections handed over
to UKOTs?
Dissemination Measures
14a
Number of
conferences/seminars/workshops/stakeholder
meetings organised to present/disseminate
findings from UKOT’s Darwin project work
14b
Number of conferences/seminars/
workshops/stakeholder meetings attended at
which findings from the Darwin Plus project
work will be presented/ disseminated
Physical Measures
20
Estimated value (£s) of physical assets handed
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Code
Description
Totals (plus additional detail as
required)
over to UKOT(s)
21
Number of permanent
educational/training/research facilities or
organisation established in UKOTs
22
Number of permanent field plots established in
UKOTs
23
Value of resources raised from other sources
(e.g., in addition to Darwin funding) for project
work
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Annex 2
Publications
Provide full details of all publications and material that can be publicly accessed, e.g. title, name of publisher, contact details. Mark (*) all publications and
other material that you have included with this report
Type *
Detail
(e.g. journals,
manual, CDs)
(title, author, year)
Nationality of lead
author
Nationality of
institution of
lead author
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Gender of lead
author
Publishers
Available from
(name, city)
(e.g. contact address,
website)
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Annex 3
Darwin Contacts
To assist us with future evaluation work and feedback on your report, please provide details for
the main project contacts below. Please add new sections to the table if you are able to
provide contact information for more people than there are sections below.
Ref No
Project Title
Project Leader Details
Name
Role within Darwin Project
Address
Phone
Fax/Skype
Email
Partner 1
Name
Organisation
Role within Darwin Project
Address
Fax/Skype
Email
Partner 2 etc.
Name
Organisation
Role within Darwin Project
Address
Fax/Skype
Email
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