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Project: Fostering the Electoral Participation of Internally Displaced Persons in Georgia
Evaluation Date: November 2021
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

This project, as designed and presented had the potential to develop into a forward-looking program with a far-reaching positive impact on increasing the target population’s participation in elections as voters and as candidates. Though most of the expected outputs were successfully delivered, their impact was rather limited. LAG put efforts into producing the outputs in quantity, but due to the lack of programmatic approach and appropriate followup missed an opportunity to ensure their long-term applicability. In some cases, especially as regards the two main assets developed within the project’s framework – the Trainers’ Pool and the capacitated CSOs, this resulted in insufficient performance. Applying the mechanisms and capacity developed within the project’s framework during the 2021 municipal and subsequent elections would be instrumental in increasing the sustainability of the project’s results and its longer-term impact.

Theme: Community activism

Georgia candidate, capacity, elections, impact, long-term, output, participation, project design, result, sustainable, target, training, voter

Project: Fostering the Electoral Participation of Internally Displaced Persons in Georgia
Evaluation Date: November 2021
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Elections-related projects aimed at contributing to the democratic consolidation, cannot be seen as self-sufficient, stand-alone initiatives. In the current case, not considering the deviation of the team’s assumptions from the actual baseline and the lack of subsequent review of the implementation strategy negatively affected the project’s relevance and overall impact. When drafting and implementing such projects, it is therefore important to consider the wide range of factors related not only to the micro dimension but also those related to the macro dimension, which are relevant for the project’s integration and relevance within the larger policy context and important for the sustainability and impact to reach beyond the project’s immediate lifetime.

Theme: Community activism

Georgia analysis, baseline, context, democracy, elections, impact, policy, project design, relevant, sustainable

Project: Fostering the Electoral Participation of Internally Displaced Persons in Georgia
Evaluation Date: November 2021
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Along with the multiyear experience and expertise in the field, the two main preconditions for the successful accomplishment of the project were the team’s political impartiality and decentralization of efforts. In transitioning societies, where democratic institutions are not yet fully mature and division between public administration and the ruling force is still not clear, being politically unaffiliated is crucially important for a project team to ensure the project’s success, especially when it regards projects promoting participation in elections.

Theme: Community activism

Georgia credibility, decentralize, democracy, elections, participation, political, reform

Citizen Empowerment for the Promotion of Good Governance and Participatory Democracy in Algeria

Project: Citizen Empowerment for the Promotion of Good Governance and Participatory Democracy in Algeria
Evaluation Date: January 2022
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Promoting democratic value is highly needed in the Algerian context, especially after the protests of 2019-2021, as the transition brings a search for reforms and new ways of governance. Civil society needs stronger capacity, up-to-date knowledge and tools, better mobilization, networking, vision. The need to engage citizens and civil society in local development requires frameworks, mechanisms, and tools dependent on experimentation and learning. Local authorities also need stronger capacity for mechanisms and tools for good local governance, so as to modernize and improve public services and better engage citizens in local development.

Theme: Community activism, Interaction with government

Algeria Algeria, local government, participation

Project: House of Initiatives by and for Syrian Women in Reyhanli
Evaluation Date: February 2019
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

A community and resource centre open not only to women refugees but also to local women is a significant opportunity to fight xenophobic sentiment and discriminatory discourse.

Theme: Community activism

Arab States, Syrian Arab Republic Arab States, Refugees, Syria, Turkey, women

Project: House of Initiatives by and for Syrian Women in Reyhanli
Evaluation Date: February 2019
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Using social media tools for psychosocial support enhances interaction with academia around the world and thus strengthens both the project and similar networks worldwide.

Theme: Community activism

Arab States, Syrian Arab Republic Arab States, Refugees, Syria, Turkey, women

Project: Advancing Pedestrian Rights in Georgia
Evaluation Date: January 2018
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

A CSO’s search for sustainability is never-ending. Every new project should include the “seeds” – innovative strategies – of future sustainability. Additionally, since securing funds from a specific international donor can take months or years, CSOs should continue fundraising and cultivating donors even in relatively “flush” times.

Theme: Community activism

Georgia funding, innovation, sustainability

Project: Advancing Pedestrian Rights in Georgia
Evaluation Date: January 2018
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Consider revenue generating mechanisms including: membership fees; services fees; and private sector support; and build on project success to develop spin-off products that can be presented to international donors.

Theme: Community activism

Georgia donors, funding, revenue generation

Project: Advancing Pedestrian Rights in Georgia
Evaluation Date: January 2018
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Consider developing formal partnerships with research organizations or think tanks, particularly those specialized in related topics such as public transportation.

Theme: Community activism

Georgia partnership, transport

Project: Advancing Pedestrian Rights in Georgia
Evaluation Date: January 2018
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Ensure that projects explicitly consider and raise awareness regarding the differentiated needs of vulnerable groups and establish partnerships with women’s organizations and CSO’s representing other marginalized communities.

Theme: Community activism

Georgia communities, partnerships, vulnerable

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