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Project: Citizenship is my Right
Evaluation Date: January 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The sensitization and education of staff in municipal authorities and parents raised awareness among adults about the rights-based approach and led to a greater appreciation of the importance of supporting the participation of young people in democratic life.

Theme: Youth engagement

Lebanon parents, rights

Project: Citizenship is my Right
Evaluation Date: January 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project fostered group learning processes that built trust and promoted respect for diversity. This effort has resulted in the training of a substantial number of young leaders who are actively participating in the Municipal Youth Councils and who are involved in concrete employment and social projects that address the needs of their villages.

Theme: Youth engagement

Lebanon learning, trust, youth

Project: Youth Partnership for Improved Budgetary Governance in Lebanese Municipalities: Musharaka
Evaluation Date: October 2014
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

While many of the young participants have gone on to create their own organizations to implement local initiatives, this may not be sustainable. Given the challenges for grassroots organizations to survive and the lack of local backing, it may be more effective to channel the energy and investment of youth into collective alternatives working with existing structures that are more likely to survive and have a longer lasting impact.

Theme: Youth engagement

Lebanon collaboration, collective, grassroots

Project: Youth Partnership for Improved Budgetary Governance in Lebanese Municipalities: Musharaka
Evaluation Date: October 2014
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Since the project was designed to strengthen democratic processes, the workshops for the beneficiary groups should have provided more detailed information on rights. The project’s main priority was a needs-centered approach. What was absent was the perspective that access to public information, the monitoring of transparency in public administration, and good governance are the inherent rights of citizen that do not depend on the good will and acceptance of local authorities.

Theme: Youth engagement

Lebanon Accountability, governance, rights

Project: Youth Partnership for Improved Budgetary Governance in Lebanese Municipalities: Musharaka
Evaluation Date: October 2014
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Working in the Municipality offices gave young participants an insider’s view of how the institution operates and a better understanding of its role. Similarly, Municipality officials said that their interaction with the Youth Shadow Councils had allowed them to see and appreciate the young people’s contribution, gradually leading them to view the young people as colleagues instead of interlopers.

Theme: Youth engagement

Lebanon institutions, local government

Project: Youth Partnership for Improved Budgetary Governance in Lebanese Municipalities: Musharaka
Evaluation Date: October 2014
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project involved a specific activity on how to conduct elections. This resulted in the democratic election of five Youth Shadow Councils which has boosted the culture of democracy among the citizenry and the beneficiary groups alike.

Theme: Youth engagement

Lebanon elections, youth

Project: Youth Partnership for Improved Budgetary Governance in Lebanese Municipalities: Musharaka
Evaluation Date: October 2014
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project had a clear impact in building the capacity of youth in the areas of good governance, accountability, and transparency. Creating the Youth Shadow Councils had a very positive impact on the beneficiary populations in the Bekaa region, particularly because it promoted interaction among youth of different faiths and political persuasions. The young people consider the project to have been an initiation in social activism that enabled them to “do something together”.

Theme: Youth engagement

Lebanon culture, inclusion, youth

Project: Renforcement des capacités des journalistes et blogueurs arabes pour la promotion des droits de l’Homme
Evaluation Date: October 2014
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Some participants clearly learned a lot from the training sessions, and have disseminated the skills they acquired, contributing in some cases to the sustainability of the project. However these elements of impact were relatively limited, partly because the project team did not systematically maintain a liaison with all the participants following the training sessions. A more pro-active approach to management would have been welcome, for example in terms of maintaining communications with each participant after the training sessions.

Theme: Media

Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Morocco, Tunisia, Yemen sustainability, training

Project: Renforcement des capacités des journalistes et blogueurs arabes pour la promotion des droits de l’Homme
Evaluation Date: October 2014
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project was relatively weak in that costs were high and that it cannot be considered that the results achieved were commensurate with the expectations arising from the project document, or with the resources expended, even when taking into account the fact that political instability in the region increased the cost of activities.

Theme: Media

Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Morocco, Tunisia, Yemen budget, results

Project: Renforcement des capacités des journalistes et blogueurs arabes pour la promotion des droits de l’Homme
Evaluation Date: October 2014
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

It should be noted that the project document demonstrated some weaknesses in the presentation of the intervention logic, to the extent that project results were conflated with objectives. The wording of the three outcomes was identical to that of the objectives.

Theme: Media

Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Morocco, Tunisia, Yemen design, management, results

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