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Project: Promoting Citizen’s Participation in the Constitutional Reform Process in Ghana
Evaluation Date:
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Only 10 of those MPs who followed the advocacy seminars and expressed their support were recently re-elected into parliament, which gives additional reason for concern.

Theme: Rule of law

Ghana parliament, sustainability, training

Project: Promoting Citizen’s Participation in the Constitutional Reform Process in Ghana
Evaluation Date: January 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The grantee failed to anticipate that, once the grassroots-level had submitted its recommendations, the consulted representatives from women, youth and disability groups, would expect get feedback on how their inputs were being used in the constitutional reform process in Ghana.

Theme: Rule of law

Ghana feedback, political, process

Project: Promoting Citizen’s Participation in the Constitutional Reform Process in Ghana
Evaluation Date: January 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The grantee failed to communicate sufficiently about the need to slow down implementation and to extend the project’s duration, in order to await the publication of the Constitutional Review Commission’s recommendations and the response from the Government in its White Paper.

Theme: Rule of law

Ghana communication, donor

Project: Promoting Citizen’s Participation in the Constitutional Reform Process in Ghana
Evaluation Date: January 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Constitutional review processes are frequently subject to unexpected changes in the government’s schedule of priorities or politically motivated delays. These are recurring challenges that many UNDEF-funded projects have faced. This project in Ghana took a very cautious approach and identified external risks and therefore formulated more modest expected outputs and results.

Theme: Rule of law

Ghana constitution, reform

Project: Strengthening Advocacy Capacity of Civil Society in The Gambia
Evaluation Date: December 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

While the grantee’s advocacy unit is still operational, the organisation still lacks input and resource capacity to provide systematic evidence of the extent to which the efforts of its members and its network in general are contributing to the development of the Gambia.

UNDEF/Gambia

Theme: Community activism

Gambia evidence, impact, sustainability

Project: Strengthening Advocacy Capacity of Civil Society in The Gambia
Evaluation Date: December 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

External factors relating to the implementation by the government of civil society legislation limited the impact of joint dialogue between civil society and government in Gambia. Those local government administrations, which have already responded to advocacy efforts by introducing new services, mostly do so by financing through local tax income. As these resources are scarce, they are usually insufficient to meet the local needs NGOs have identified.

Theme: Community activism

Gambia government, local, policy, risk

Project: Strengthening Advocacy Capacity of Civil Society in The Gambia
Evaluation Date: December 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The grantee’s outcome indicators support the project’s achievements. However the ultimate objective of the project – to change government policies in Gambia to support an enabling environment for civil society – was not achieved.

Theme: Community activism

Gambia objectives, targets

Project: Strengthening Advocacy Capacity of Civil Society in The Gambia
Evaluation Date: December 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

To raise awareness during NGO week in Gambia, NGOS organized exhibition stalls, panel discussions, and live radio broadcasts to explain how they contribute to improvements of basic service delivery. This led to many people who visited asking for more information about how to claim their rights and entitlements. One case involved a local woman, whose stall and contents were seized by the police, when she tried trading vegetables on an informal street market. Proving that she is a regular taxpayer and stating the fact that the town has no official marketplace for women to sell their items, she successfully reclaimed her produce and today still sells in the same place.

Theme: Community activism

Gambia communication, radio, rights, women

Project: Strengthening Advocacy Capacity of Civil Society in The Gambia
Evaluation Date: December 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The grantee provided very useful, tangible and instrumental services which contributed to the project’s sustainability. The advocacy strategy framework developed very helpfully outlined the process of organising an advocacy campaign. It was very user friendly and explained clearly in a step by step practical way what needed to be done.

Theme: Community activism

Gambia advocacy, learning

Project: Grassroots Gender Accountability in Uganda
Evaluation Date: April 2014
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Although written in English, Village Budget Club members found the budget monitoring and service tracking manual easy to use, because (i) English-speaking training facilitators were recruited from within the local community to address possible language and literacy issues; and (ii) at trainee stage, monitors teamed up in pairs comprising of one English speaker, thus enabling easy reference to the manual as and when needed

Theme: Interaction with government

Uganda community, language, relevance

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