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Project: Empowering Female and Youth Domestic Workers in Uganda
Evaluation Date: September 2020
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Adaptive project management and implementation allowed for adjustments to be made that enhanced the overall goal of the project.

Theme: Rule of law

Project: Underpinning and developing the democratic electoral processes in Azerbaijan
Evaluation Date: August 2010
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The major weakness of the project from a relevance point of view was that it bore no real relationship to needed governance reforms. The elections process in Azerbaijan is flawed. While increasing women’s participation in a flawed process is a valid goal, the project would have added more value if it had addressed basic issues in governance. While the project may have had some impact on women’s empowerment, it had none on democratization.

Theme: Community activism

Azerbaijan elections, participation, reform

Project: Constructing Citizenship in San Luis de Potosí
Evaluation Date: April 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

One of the unexpected results of the project cited by grantee was that it led the organization to shift its institutional priorities, making civil society strengthening to influence public policy-making a strategic goal.

Theme: Rule of law

Mexico agility, strategy

Project: Enlarging the Social Base for Democracy and the Rule of Law in Egypt
Evaluation Date: April 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

While decentralization of activities is a positive goal, in times of political volatility and security challenges, extending democracy support beyond the capital can lead to organizational and logistical problems. Given these challenges, the project decided it was safer to bring people from the regions to the capital rather than trying to export activities from the capital to the regions.

Theme: Rule of law

Egypt adapt, regions, security

Project: Strengthening the capacities of Magistrates
Evaluation Date: July 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project’s overall conceptual framework did not properly connect the goal of re-establishing citizens’ trust in justice in Niger with the actual activities carried out since the activities were focused only on the magistrates themselves and not the wider population or local or traditional leaders.

Theme: Rule of law

Niger design, inclusion

Project: Civic education and empowerment for more women in leadership, from villages to parliament in Fiji
Evaluation Date: July 2016
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project was managed on a somewhat ad-hoc basis. The grantee was working with reduced human resources and there were weaknesses in the management capacity of the team. Lack of SMART key-indicators and, of a formal monitoring system was another problem. The grantee board members and project manager also had scarce and irregular contacts with the implementing organizations, a situation that jeopardizes achievement of expected outcomes and sustainability of the grantee’s goal of building a network.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Fiji monitoring, network, sustainability

Project: Empowering Civil Society and Women to Engage in Policy Processes
Evaluation Date: August 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Project follow-up should have included applied research. The goal of such research would be to analyse critically and comparatively the various experiences and advances encountered by the project. This exercise should identify, in the context of a fragile democracy, the modalities and the possible alternatives for optimising women’s empowerment and guaranteeing as much as possible the application of the legal framework, as well as following up and carrying out the recommended support or judicial measures.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Honduras impact, research, sustainability

Project: Support for Elections in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria
Evaluation Date: August 2021
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Adaptive project management and implementation allows for adjustments to be made that enhance the achievement of the overall goal of the project.

Theme: Electoral Processes

Nigeria adaptation, changes, correct, impact, modifications, modify, objectives, results, success, targets

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