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Project: Participatory Rights of Physically Disabled Persons in Georgia
Evaluation Date: April 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Weaknesses in the design of indicators limited the grantee’s analysis of impact on the rights of disabled persons in Georgia, as they mostly reflected on developments external to the project’s activities. Clearer indicators could have made linked activities more closely with what they were designed to achieve.

Theme: Rule of law

Georgia indicators, monitoring

Project: Youth as Agents of Democratic Change through Knowledge and Information Acquisition and Exchange in Laos
Evaluation Date: June 2014
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The grantee (a) imposed on itself very ambitious target indicators, and (b) confused monitoring data, all of which made analysis and reporting of project outcomes less pertinent.

Theme: Youth engagement

Lao People's Democratic Republic data, indicators

Project: Emerging Leaders of the Arab Region
Evaluation Date: November 2017
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Awareness raising activities should be strategic as well as tactical, for increased long-term effect. Activities should maximize the number of people reached, and the message should be focused and applied locally. Also include accurate indicators and means of verification in order to assess if there were any changes or impact, positive or negative, foreseen and unforeseen, on democratization.

Theme: Youth engagement

Arab States, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates awareness, democratization, indicators

Project: Empowerment of Women in India through Innovative Vocational Education and Training
Evaluation Date: May 2014
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The grantee in India expanded the definition of existing target indicators for women’s participation by adding a variety of measurement options, which made the reporting of project outcomes less pertinent, as it lacked clear responses to the project document’s initial results framework.

Theme: Women's empowerment

India data, indicators

Project: Rural Media Development for Promoting Democracy and Human Rights
Evaluation Date: November 2017
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The grantee collected rich and interesting data but was let down by not analyzing this data sufficiently to provide evidence of progress. Moreover, the overall M&E system needed more coherence, so that projects are able to measure the same indicators at the beginning and the end to show progress. This could have been done in various ways, for instance, by using the same framework for baseline and endline data collection, or by pre and post training questionnaires.

Theme: Media

Bangladesh impact, indicators, monitoring

Project: Narrowing the Gender Gap in Flood Affected Areas of Pakistan
Evaluation Date: March 2014
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Targets were ambitious in some cases and not fully met. The attribution of results based on some of the indicators chosen was also difficult given the number of other factors that affected the outcomes. For example, impact data provided by the grantee showed a nine percent increase in the number of women in the project areas who registered for the Computerized National Identity Card during the project period. However attribution for this is difficult given the widespread voter education efforts that were done in Pakistan in the lead up to the 2013 elections.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Pakistan indicators, results, targets

Project: Strengthening Participation of Women in Geographically Deprived Communities in Local Governance in Ghana
Evaluation Date: June 2017
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

A lack of qualitative monitoring tools and practices prevented a deeper assessment of the impact of the project. Project indicators should have been designed that were appropriately matched to the available tools for data collection and analysis, such as perception surveys, media monitoring and regular field inspections. These tools should have been budgeted for in the project and rigorously implemented.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Ghana data, indicators, monitoring

Project: Together against violence and discrimination of women
Evaluation Date: March 2016
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project appeared to be effective, but only because the target indicators were quantitative and not qualitative. For example, the project achieved the indicator of training and installing 20 local vigilance groups in the 20 target sites, however evaluators found that the functioning of these groups was not likely to contribute to the project’s objectives.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Djibouti indicators, results

Project: Development Pacts: An accountability tool in the hands of local communities in Kyrgyzstan
Evaluation Date: November 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Despite clearly specified indicators in the results framework the grantee lacked pertinent data demonstrating the extent to which women and vulnerable groups in Kyrgyzstan have been given specific opportunity to negotiate their demands and exercise their rights.

Theme: Community activism

Kyrgyzstan data, indicators

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 design and logical framework were weak and too ambitious. Lack of baseline studies and mapping of women participation in politics was another handicap, as well as the inappropriate indicators for selecting the trainers.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Fiji indicators

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