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Project: Strengthening Citizenship and Consolidation of Democracy in Chad
Evaluation Date: February 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project’s strategy was built around the preparation of a conceptual, methodological and operational framework in a participative manner with the target groups. It integrated three main priorities: functional literacy and awareness-raising; improvement of the conditions of women; and community participation at the local level. The choice to address the literacy issue within marginal populations of Chad was particularly appropriate raise citizen awareness among the target groups.

Theme: Community activism

Chad inclusion, literacy

Project: Enhancing Political Participation of Marginalised Women in Nepal
Evaluation Date: September 2010
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Dissemination methods, including traditional and alternative means, were used so as to address the lack of literacy among participants. Representatives of marginalized women’s communities, as well as other stakeholders, identified street theater and radio programs as the most relevant media. Five street plays were originally planned, but 16 were produced and seen by some 2,000 people.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Nepal literacy, media, radio, theatre

Project: Student Civic Action: Engaging and Empowering Emerging Leaders in Universities in Jordan
Evaluation Date: March 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Featured lesson) One example of the impact on leadership was a trainee who had worked in the Child Care Society in her rural home town of North Badia. As part of the project she identified illiteracy as a major issue and developed a literacy training programme for women. Being able to translate an idea into a practical programme was an empowering experience for stay-at-home women. It also had a multiplier effect since participants started encouraging other women to attend.

Theme: Youth engagement

Jordan empowerment, leadership, literacy

Project:
Evaluation Date: June 2018
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

ICTs have the potential to strengthen the power of women and are under-exploited in Haiti today. Their demystification increases and strengthens the capacity for action, of relations and self-esteem of rural women, often victims of triple exclusion: as a woman, rural and poor. Grantees working on technology projects should collaborate with organized specialized in literacy to enable illiterate rural women to acquire computer skills.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Haiti literacy, rural, technology, women

Project: Creative Communication of the Nigerian Budget
Evaluation Date: July 2018
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

High levels of illiteracy and limited English language skills amongst community members – especially women – created communication challenges. The printing of budget summary materials in English-only may have restricted access to most community members. To reach a wider audience translate budget data into local languages for key publications.

Theme: Media

Nigeria language, literacy, outreach

Project: Empowered Civil Society Addressing the Democratic Needs of Rural Women in Myanmar
Evaluation Date: January 2016
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The low education level of many villagers made it difficult to achieve required levels of capacity building. Partners noted that some participants were functionally illiterate. According to one, only about a third of women participants could read and write fluently. This required training methodologies based on personal interaction rather than written materials and outputs, and limited the number of people who could assume leadership positions.

UNDEF/Myanmar

Theme: Community activism

Myanmar literacy, project design, risk, training

Project: Supporting local democratic governance in the mining regions of northern Upper Guinea
Evaluation Date: September 2016
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The training materials could have been more relevant and accessible to the target beneficiaries. The resources should have been translated into the most frequently used languages. Learning materials should have also incorporated more visual elements and used radio broadcasts since many of the beneficiaries were illiterate.

Theme: Rule of law

Guinea language, literacy, radio

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

Project: Promotion of Women’s Empowerment and Rights in Somalia
Evaluation Date: June 2016
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The CSOs were fully involved in a series of TV and radio debates both as panelists and audiences. These were a good way to give the CSOs an opportunity to speak out, to engage local journalists in the issues, and to broaden the discourse on women’s empowerment. TV and particularly radio are the most common forms of information dissemination in a region where literacy rates are low.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Somalia engagement, media, outreach, radio, TV

Project: Strengthening promotion of women’s rights (Kenya)
Evaluation Date: October 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

In Kenya, community dialogues over the radio proved effective in raising rural women’s awareness about their rights. For example, many married women in conservative communities gave little thought to the fact that their husbands possessed their identity papers. Through radio shows highlighting women’s issues, women became aware of the fact that this practice deprived them of the possibility to vote. The project could have allocated more funds to radio journalism. In the evaluation report many interviewees stressed the importance of radio in rural areas in Kenya, as it reaches beneficiaries with low literacy rates in vernacular languages, without the need of internet access.

UNDEF/Kenya

Theme: Women's empowerment

Kenya grassroots, radio, rural

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