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Mauritania

Project: Strengthening the Political Participation of Communities of Former Slaves
Evaluation Date: January 2015
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The training sessions and literacy activities in Mauritania were rather academic and poorly linked to the practical concerns of the targeted communities. The lack of knowledge on how to put in practice existing legal provisions against slavery reduced the overall effectiveness of the project.
The project would have benefited from a better combination between theory and practice by delivering more practical training to clarify how to apply existing legal provisions against the practice of slavery.

UNDEF/ Mauritania

Theme: Community activism

Mauritania relevance, training

Project: Strengthening the Political Participation of Communities of Former Slaves
Evaluation Date: January 2015
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Given the limited human resources available for the project, it did not sufficiently consider the geographical challenges of the region, in which villages are widely dispersed and difficult to access given the lack of roads. Remote project management and external consultants caused an imbalanced budget, which was to the detriment of beneficiaries.

Theme: Community activism

Mauritania budget, staffing

Project: Strengthening the Political Participation of Communities of Former Slaves
Evaluation Date: January 2015
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project was supported by a project manager based in Nouakchott (around 1,000 km away from the zone of intervention) and had a team of two facilitators in Aîoun, the capital of the region, located about 100 km from the villages targeted. Given the limited human resources available for the project, it did not sufficiently consider the geographical challenges of the region, in which villages are widely dispersed and difficult to access given the lack of roads. Remote project management and external consultants caused an imbalanced budget, which was to the detriment of beneficiaries.

Theme: Community activism

Mauritania geography, infrastructure, scope

Project: Strengthening the Political Participation of Communities of Former Slaves
Evaluation Date: January 2015
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The dialogue and exchange of knowledge amongst women’s CSOs from different communities were effective in bringing together both communities.

Theme: Community activism

Mauritania inclusion, women

Project: Strengthening the Political Participation of Communities of Former Slaves
Evaluation Date: January 2015
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The grantee combined the project activities in Mauritania with its other food security activities to improve the beneficiaries’ participation in the project. The emphasis on women, community leaders and youth was effective in reaching a wide audience.

Theme: Community activism

Mauritania food security, scope, synergy

Project: Water and sanitation for all: for a strong and heard civil society in West Africa
Evaluation Date: April 2016
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Minor adjustments to project design can reinforce effectiveness – including for example the use of social networks to share information, as well as work with community radios. The project’s effectiveness varied notably between countries, as a result of both external and internal factors, such as governments’ degree of openness to dialogue with NGOs on WASH issues and the management skills of platform leaders.

Theme: Interaction with government

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo capacity, politics, WASH

Project: Water and sanitation for all: for a strong and heard civil society in West Africa
Evaluation Date: April 2016
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Several platform representatives noted that the UNDEF project led to enhancing their professional skills across the region. The capacity building also helped enhance platforms’ resilience and technical capacity and also their capacity to attract the attention of other development actors, including future donors. Enhanced technical capabilities generate research and strategy development capacity, which should be directed towards the elaboration of future projects in order to reinforce sustainability and credibility vis-à-vis government authorities and potential donors.

Theme: Interaction with government

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo capacity, sustainability

Project: Water and sanitation for all: for a strong and heard civil society in West Africa
Evaluation Date: April 2016
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Project achievements were positive; especially in view of the vast geographical area covered by the project and the fact that the budgets devolved to each country were relatively limited Some of the implementing partners took innovative approaches as they knew their efforts could not be compensated financially.

Theme: Interaction with government

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo budget, innovation, resources

Project: Water and sanitation for all: for a strong and heard civil society in West Africa
Evaluation Date: April 2016
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project achieved genuine added value, despite the risks inherent to activities thinly spread across eight countries. Project management was good, the grantee’s management team was committed and effective, as demonstrated by the level of satisfaction with management expressed by participating platforms’ representatives.

Theme: Interaction with government

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo commitment, management

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