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Project: Your Local Representative, Strengthening Citizen Participation in Ukraine
Evaluation Date: October 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The activities for outreach to the citizens and their use of the websites were under-developed in the design and during implementation. The assumption that these websites alone could result in more responsive party lists or more accountable deputies was unrealistic given the number of other factors that go into these elements.

UNDEF/Ukraine

Theme: Community activism

Ukraine citizen, participation, website

Project: Your Local Representative, Strengthening Citizen Participation in Ukraine
Evaluation Date: October 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project’s technique of putting in place governance transparency activities at local level in different regions could be replicated in future as the focus on local issues and representatives, should be leveraged to achieve a national impact. Outcome indicators should also be adopted in projects such as these so the information can be used to better target project activities and improve project performance.

Theme: Community activism

Ukraine government, scope, transparency

Project: Your Local Representative, Strengthening Citizen Participation in Ukraine
Evaluation Date: October 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The grantee made some efforts to build sustainability into the project by expecting sub grantees to place advertising on the sites to generate income, and by developing a formal, as well as informal network between the nine NGOs. While advertising on the sites was not put in place the formal and informal networks were established.

Theme: Community activism

Ukraine revenue, sustainability, web

Project: Your Local Representative, Strengthening Citizen Participation in Ukraine
Evaluation Date: October 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project was relevant in terms of its identification of the democratic problem. All people interviewed as part of the evaluation viewed the consolidation of power by one individual or party as the main issue facing the communities. Projects of this nature shine a light on governance and the need to pay attention to what elected officials are doing. The project provided a public space that highlighted the work of deputies. This was effective for journalists and some of the minority party deputies. For the journalists, the websites developed by the project provided a one-stop shop for information about local representatives’ work, while the minority deputies found the websites could be used as a channel to make their work public.

Theme: Community activism

Ukraine Accountability, government, transparency, web

Project: Strengthening Civil Society Across Borders to Develop Democracy
Evaluation Date: August 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The extent to which cross-border ties between Ukraine and Moldova were maintained could have been enhanced by a better sustainability strategy to build the knowledge and experience sharing that took place as part of the project. The sustainability relies on the website. However the website of the project could have been better designed to become a forum for keeping in touch and fostering twinning arrangements.

Theme: Tools for knowledge

Moldova, Republic of, Ukraine communication, design

Project: Strengthening Civil Society Across Borders to Develop Democracy
Evaluation Date: August 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The sustainability of the local NGOs was not assured. It is recommended that the local NGOs which participated in the project develop long-term relationships with local authorities; for example, permanent consultative status in an issue area or a multi-year arrangement to provide services. This will enhance financial sustainability in the most convincing way and help to avoid the trap of being dependent on recurrent one-time projects.

Theme: Tools for knowledge

Moldova, Republic of, Ukraine funding, sustainability

Project: Strengthening Civil Society Across Borders to Develop Democracy
Evaluation Date: August 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The strong partnership between a reliable, experienced international NGO and national NGOs from Ukraine and Moldova worked well to leverage results and to enhance the impact of activities. The value added of this civil society project was that these collaborations were focused on concrete solutions to jointly identified problems.

Theme: Tools for knowledge

Moldova, Republic of, Ukraine collaboration, regional

Project: Strengthening Civil Society Across Borders to Develop Democracy
Evaluation Date: August 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project was built on the premise that when civil society and government engage constructively and pro-actively, common ground will be found and better approaches and solutions developed. Results of the project confirmed that approach.
The watchdog role of NGOs is important and should complement rather than contradict an approach based on constructive engagement. The enhanced involvement of civil society in national policymaking in both Ukraine and Moldova was in part a result of the contribution of this project.

Theme: Tools for knowledge

Moldova, Republic of, Ukraine government, watchdog

Project: Assessing Democracy Assistance
Evaluation Date: September 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Target beneficiaries were all groups committed, whatever their differences, to promoting democracy. Groups opposing democracy were by definition, not targeted by the project, and it is such groups that are often the real barrier to democratic development.

Theme: Tools for knowledge

Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Georgia, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Turkey, Ukraine, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) democracy, opposition

Project: Assessing Democracy Assistance
Evaluation Date: September 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Weigh the advantages and disadvantages of book or journal special issue publication. Papers can quite quickly become outdated. But publishing through a leading academic press, can add credibility and reach.

Theme: Tools for knowledge

Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Georgia, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Turkey, Ukraine, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) relevance, research

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