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Project: ICT Empowerment of Women’s Voices in Haiti
Evaluation Date: May 2018
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

If a women’s empowerment project engages both women-only organizations and mixed organizations, it should discuss with stakeholders at the beginning of the project how to manage the dual discourse.

Theme: Women's empowerment
Haiti   Haiti, low-income countries, media, rural, technology, women
Project: ICT Empowerment of Women’s Voices in Haiti
Evaluation Date: May 2018
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

In low-income countries, women’s empowerment projects should develop collaborations with organizations specialized in literacy to enable rural women to acquire computer skills.

Theme: Media
Haiti   Haiti, low-income countries, media, rural, technology, women
Project: ICT Empowerment of Women’s Voices in Haiti
Evaluation Date: May 2018
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

In Haiti, as in many low-income countries, IT is under-utilized as a tool to empower rural women.  Making it more accessible strengthens the capacity for action and self-esteem of rural women, who are often victims of triple exclusion: as women, rural and poor.

Theme: Media
Haiti   Haiti, low-income countries, media, rural, technology, women
Project: House of Initiatives by and for Syrian Women in Reyhanli
Evaluation Date: February 2019
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

A community and resource centre open not only to women refugees but also to local women is a significant opportunity to fight xenophobic sentiment and discriminatory discourse.

Theme: Community activism
Arab States, Syrian Arab Republic   Arab States, Refugees, Syria, Turkey, women
Project: House of Initiatives by and for Syrian Women in Reyhanli
Evaluation Date: February 2019
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Projects aiming for a sub-grant component should research local law regarding fundraising and grant-giving at the design stage to prevent issues at the implementation stage.

Theme: Interaction with government
Arab States, Syrian Arab Republic   Arab States, Refugees, Syria, Turkey, women
Project: House of Initiatives by and for Syrian Women in Reyhanli
Evaluation Date: February 2019
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Using social media tools for psychosocial support enhances interaction with academia around the world and thus strengthens both the project and similar networks worldwide.

Theme: Community activism
Arab States, Syrian Arab Republic   Arab States, Refugees, Syria, Turkey, women
Project: House of Initiatives by and for Syrian Women in Reyhanli
Evaluation Date: February 2019
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

A strong commitment by a refugee empowerment project to humanitarian principles of impartiality, neutrality and independence gains them trust and respect among both internal and external stakeholders, and will help them operate smoothly in the long term.

Theme: Interaction with government
Arab States, Syrian Arab Republic   Arab States, Refugees, Syria, Turkey, women
Project: House of Initiatives by and for Syrian Women in Reyhanli
Evaluation Date: February 2019
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Involving host country citizens in the leadership of a refugee empowerment project is a good model of coexistence and sharing, allowing for refugees to build a relationship with the host community while maintaining links with their home country.

Theme: Interaction with government
Arab States, Syrian Arab Republic   Arab States, Refugees, Syria, Turkey, women
Project: Towards a Rights-based Political Culture for the Political Participation of the Dominican Population of Haitian Origin
Evaluation Date: November 2018
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

When the project tackles long-standing generational issues (as is the case in this project), the methodology used to guide the intervention plays a key role in project impact.

The use of a ‘Theory of Change’ (ToC) approach can help with looking beyond the logical framework to collectively construct a clear understanding of the transformations sought by the project.

The use of a ToC approach can help…:
1) Organizational awareness of the need to review and update the assumptions used in the initial project design
2) Simplify the nature of the context and determine whether the initially established conditions for change have been maintained
3) Redefine new strategies as needed

Theme: Rule of law
Dominican Republic   context, impact, implementation, planning
Project: Mainstreaming the Sustainable Development Goals in the Arab Civil Society Agenda
Evaluation Date: December 2018
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Monitoring the progress of SDG implementation in the Arab region (and other regions where there is a lack of reliable/accurate data and access to information) would be more effective through the use of qualitative rather than quantitiative information. Since national statistics are highly unreliable and access to information is limited, work on SDGs has been more successful when the focus is on qualitative policy reform or when the work is highly localized to areas where statistics are reliable and information is accessible.

Theme: Interaction with government
Arab States   Access, project design, project strategy, statistics
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