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Project: Enhancing Dialogue for Inclusive Constitution
Evaluation Date: February 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The grantee focused on the empowerment of marginalized groups. The main project output – the alternative constitution – was drafted without including country’s dominant political parties. This weakened the chances of the project to establish a lasting effect on Nepal’s constitutional drafting process.

Theme: Interaction with government

Nepal inclusion, marginal, politics

Project: Promoting Human Rights through Providing Access to Information for Marginalized Women in Zimbabwe
Evaluation Date: November 2015
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project document did not explicitly prioritize the identified needs from the point of view of marginalized women. As a result, despite the sound analysis, the project’s relevance was hampered by a tendency to spread activities too thinly across a broad range of issues. The project was trying to address many different problems, all genuine concerns, but ones that could not all be addressed effectively on the project’s financial resources.

Theme: Media

Zimbabwe budget, marginal, priorities

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

Lesson Learned:

The project succeeded in providing concrete training and awareness-raising on the importance of citizens’ involvement in the electoral process. Its focus on educating small civil society organizations and vulnerable groups – in particular, women from rural awareness was unique since the target beneficiaries had little awareness of their electoral rights.

Theme: Community activism

Chad marginal, rural

Project: Governance and Transparency through Radio in Southern Africa
Evaluation Date: October 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Given the budget, the scope of the work was too ambitious. Insufficient resources were allocated to core activities which had a negative impact on the outputs and results achieved. Scarce resources were allocated to activities which had marginal relevance for overall project outcomes

Theme: Community activism

Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia budget, impact, resources

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: Cultivating Democratic Leaders from Marginalized Groups in Thailand
Evaluation Date: December 2010
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

When project beneficiaries are marginalized not only by geography and ethnic origin but by mainstream politics and public attitudes, advocacy opens up a political space in which the aspirations and expectations of young people and their communities are more likely to be met. Survey results might have been of interest to the media generally – including international media – and media coverage might have contributed to putting some serious social issues on the political agenda

Theme: Youth engagement

Thailand advocacy, media, outputs

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:

One of the main project impacts was to get a significant number of women and the vulnerable population to go to vote. Rural women gained a better understanding of the importance of participating in the elections and young sex workers and street women who had never been involved in electoral events, got registered and went to vote.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Fiji elections, rural, youth

Project: Expanding and Fortifying Local Democracy through the People’s Council in the Philippines
Evaluation Date: January 2016
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The impact on beneficiaries in many cases was considerable. This was particularly true for women, persons with disabilities, senior citizens and single parents. A number of members of these groups highlighted the difference the project had made to them in terms of their enhanced self-confidence to take an active part in the proceedings of the Poverty Reduction Action Groups and/or Local Development Councils.

Theme: Community activism

Philippines empowerment, impact, inclusion

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