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LESSON

Lesson Learned: Empowering Female and Youth Domestic Workers in Uganda

The project has done an excellent job of combining support to improve the situation of individual domestic workers by empowering them with knowledge and offering legal support, with a wider initiative to change the legal environment in which they operate.
Project Name
Empowering Female and Youth Domestic Workers in Uganda
Project Partner
Platform for Labour Action
Project Description
The project aims to promote the recognition of domestic work as decent work and domestic workers (WDs) contribution to society. 3500 domestic workers reached will be positioned to take individual and collective actions to improve working conditions. Two Associations of existing 61 mutual support groups of the domestic workers will be established to build solidarity and support for each other, develop advocacy strategies and represent themselves with support from PLA in influencing change. This project will also further the participation of female and youth DWs in claiming their rights, accessing services including legal aid and inclusion in decision making in policy, local and national government processes.
Report
uganda-udf-15-648-uga-evaluation-report.pdf
Evaluation Date
September 2020
Theme
Rule of law
Country
Uganda
LESSON

Lesson Learned: Empowering Female and Youth Domestic Workers in Uganda

Training individual duty-bearers can impact on their own attitudes but rarely has a wider or organizational impact.
Project Name
Empowering Female and Youth Domestic Workers in Uganda
Project Partner
Platform for Labour Action
Project Description
The project aims to promote the recognition of domestic work as decent work and domestic workers (WDs) contribution to society. 3500 domestic workers reached will be positioned to take individual and collective actions to improve working conditions. Two Associations of existing 61 mutual support groups of the domestic workers will be established to build solidarity and support for each other, develop advocacy strategies and represent themselves with support from PLA in influencing change. This project will also further the participation of female and youth DWs in claiming their rights, accessing services including legal aid and inclusion in decision making in policy, local and national government processes.
Report
uganda-udf-15-648-uga-evaluation-report.pdf
Evaluation Date
September 2020
Theme
Rule of law
Country
Uganda
LESSON

Lesson Learned: Empowering Female and Youth Domestic Workers in Uganda

Domestic work is not as female dominated as one might think. But female and male domestic workers often have different experiences, with the former more likely to be underpaid and sexual exploited.
Project Name
Empowering Female and Youth Domestic Workers in Uganda
Project Partner
Platform for Labour Action
Project Description
The project aims to promote the recognition of domestic work as decent work and domestic workers (WDs) contribution to society. 3500 domestic workers reached will be positioned to take individual and collective actions to improve working conditions. Two Associations of existing 61 mutual support groups of the domestic workers will be established to build solidarity and support for each other, develop advocacy strategies and represent themselves with support from PLA in influencing change. This project will also further the participation of female and youth DWs in claiming their rights, accessing services including legal aid and inclusion in decision making in policy, local and national government processes.
Report
uganda-udf-15-648-uga-evaluation-report.pdf
Evaluation Date
September 2020
Theme
Rule of law
Country
Uganda
LESSON

Lesson Learned: Empowering Female and Youth Domestic Workers in Uganda

In designing a project that addresses knowledge gaps, builds and strengthens locally owned association structures and looks to improve the legal environment, PLA created outcomes that support each other, and the overall objective of the project.
Project Name
Empowering Female and Youth Domestic Workers in Uganda
Project Partner
Platform for Labour Action
Project Description
The project aims to promote the recognition of domestic work as decent work and domestic workers (WDs) contribution to society. 3500 domestic workers reached will be positioned to take individual and collective actions to improve working conditions. Two Associations of existing 61 mutual support groups of the domestic workers will be established to build solidarity and support for each other, develop advocacy strategies and represent themselves with support from PLA in influencing change. This project will also further the participation of female and youth DWs in claiming their rights, accessing services including legal aid and inclusion in decision making in policy, local and national government processes.
Report
uganda-udf-15-648-uga-evaluation-report.pdf
Evaluation Date
September 2020
Theme
Rule of law
Country
Uganda
LESSON

Lesson Learned: Using Access to Information to Foster Open Expenditure and Budget Transparency in Liberia


Newspaper coverage of a certain issue will have a wider reach than simply the number of copies printed. Stories about controversial or pertinent issues are often debated and discussed on community radio stations which have wider coverage.


Project Name
Using Access to Information to Foster Open Expenditure and Budget Transparency in Liberia
Project Partner
Liberia Media Center
Project Description
This project seeks to enhance the fight against corruption in Liberia, by fostering accountability and fiscal transparency in the public sector. It will also foster increased public advocacy in favour of anti-corruption actions and expenditure transparency. Public understanding and input in transparency and anti-corruption efforts will be buttressed by increased media coverage of these issues. Trained journalists in transparency and anti-corruption reporting, will investigate on development projects, and a team of anticorruption champions based in community radio stations, will be activated to advocate for redress, monitor and increased public awareness in the fight against corruption.
Report
Liberia-UDF-14-591-LIR-Evaluation-Report.pdf
Evaluation Date
December 2018
Theme
Rule of law
Country
Liberia
LESSON

Lesson Learned: Using Access to Information to Foster Open Expenditure and Budget Transparency in Liberia


Community-based radio is a key tool for raising community level awareness and promoting citizen engagement in debates around issues of corruption due to high levels of local listenership. Organizations should take care to conduct community radio programs in local languages in order to ensure maximum engagement with the local community.


Project Name
Using Access to Information to Foster Open Expenditure and Budget Transparency in Liberia
Project Partner
Liberia Media Center
Project Description
This project seeks to enhance the fight against corruption in Liberia, by fostering accountability and fiscal transparency in the public sector. It will also foster increased public advocacy in favour of anti-corruption actions and expenditure transparency. Public understanding and input in transparency and anti-corruption efforts will be buttressed by increased media coverage of these issues. Trained journalists in transparency and anti-corruption reporting, will investigate on development projects, and a team of anticorruption champions based in community radio stations, will be activated to advocate for redress, monitor and increased public awareness in the fight against corruption.
Report
Liberia-UDF-14-591-LIR-Evaluation-Report.pdf
Evaluation Date
December 2018
Theme
Rule of law
Country
Liberia
LESSON

Lesson Learned: Addressing Ghana’s Governance Deficits through Constitutional Reform


The county/local level can be a more effective playing field on which to make improvements to government transparency and accountability. Not only are county/local level efforts more attainable than changes to national ones, but they often have more direct and bigger impacts on citizens lives on a day to day basis. This strategy can be made even more effective by making requests for these improvements in the run-up to election proccesses. These commitments can in turn be used to hold officials accountable when in office.


Project Name
Addressing Ghana’s Governance Deficits through Constitutional Reform
Project Partner
Ghana Center for Democratic Development
Project Description
The project aimed to obtain measurable improvements in Ghana’s constitutional and governance mechanisms by providing technical input and advocacy platforms for civil society actors to research and build a constituency for constitutional and legal reform in key governance areas. The project related closely to the grantee’s mission, i.e. the promotion of democracy, good governance and the development of a liberal economic environment. The grantee’s intervention was relevant in its focus on efforts to take practical action to address priorities in democratic development, and in ensuring that the priority concerns of Ghanaian civil society, as well as the interests of ordinary citizens - through a national public opinion survey that the grantee organized - were heard. The strategy adopted by the project was judged to be appropriate and its reports to the Constitutional Review Commission and the proposals which they contained were seen as highly relevant to its deliberations.
Report
UDF-GHA-08-229-ER-1.pdf
Evaluation Date
December 2018
Theme
Rule of law
Country
Liberia
LESSON

Lesson Learned: Using Access to Information to Foster Open Expenditure and Budget Transparency in Liberia


Utilizing local structures can have both positive and negative effects. Although utilizing local structures can ensure that key project messages become ingrained in community debates and discussions, they may also serve to reinforce existing power structures (in this case, male-dominated decision-making spaces).


Project Name
Using Access to Information to Foster Open Expenditure and Budget Transparency in Liberia
Project Partner
Liberia Media Center
Project Description
This project seeks to enhance the fight against corruption in Liberia, by fostering accountability and fiscal transparency in the public sector. It will also foster increased public advocacy in favour of anti-corruption actions and expenditure transparency. Public understanding and input in transparency and anti-corruption efforts will be buttressed by increased media coverage of these issues. Trained journalists in transparency and anti-corruption reporting, will investigate on development projects, and a team of anticorruption champions based in community radio stations, will be activated to advocate for redress, monitor and increased public awareness in the fight against corruption.
Report
Liberia-UDF-14-591-LIR-Evaluation-Report.pdf
Evaluation Date
December 2018
Theme
Rule of law
Country
Liberia
LESSON

Lesson Learned: Towards a Rights-based Political Culture for the Political Participation of the Dominican Population of Haitian Origin

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
Project Name
Towards a Rights-based Political Culture for the Political Participation of the Dominican Population of Haitian Origin
Project Partner
OXFAM INTERMON
Project Description
The project aims at promoting recognition of the rights of Dominicans of Haitian descent and those at risk of deportation in three municipal districts. The project will achieve: increased access to identity and migration documents, increased debate and knowledge on the rights of Dominicans of Haitian descent and immigrants, and strengthened capacity and advocacy efforts leveraged by diverse actors to promote for the right to nationality, immigration regularization, and due process in case of deportation.
Report
Dominican-Republic-UDF-14-631-DOM-Evaluation-Report-1.pdf
Evaluation Date
November 2018
Theme
Rule of law
Country
Dominican Republic
LESSON

Lesson Learned: Fostering Ethical Democracy and Advancing Micro Justice in India


This project provides a good model of planning for project sustainability. The grantee planned for sustainability in every component of the project, leaving nothing to change. This particular grantee's experience suggests that projects that deliver tangible benefits to communities may be sustained by those communities themselves.


Project Name
Fostering Ethical Democracy and Advancing Micro Justice in India
Project Partner
DHAN Foundation
Project Description
This project aims to improve the provision of local democratic services to women, youth and students in disadvantaged communities in 5 regions. It will facilitate capacity development and create an enabling environment for Women Self Help Groups, youth associations and student groups to support their own "democracy action" initiatives. The project also seeks to initiate intensive campaigns on the Right to Information Act, in developing informed citizens. Additionally, the project will develop micro justice initiatives to address problems of infringement of rights; establishing para-legal clinics to facilitate the insurance of citizen rights and entitlements for development.
Report
India-UDF-13-560-IND-Evaluation-Report.pdf
Evaluation Date
September 2018
Theme
Rule of law
Country
India