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Project: Strengthening Democracy Through LGBT Political Participation in South Africa
Evaluation Date: August 2023
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Efficient communication between project and finance management staff, and between grantees and implementing partners, is key to ensuring the delivery of projects in challenging conditions, such as during a global pandemic or when significant staff changes take place, especially when adaptive programming is required.

Theme: Rule of law

South Africa budget, collaborate, communicate, complex, Coordinate, decision making, funding, monitoring, outputs, partnership, planning, project management, resources, results, Risks, transparency

Project: Strengthening Democracy Through LGBT Political Participation in South Africa
Evaluation Date: August 2023
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Access to online training and engagement activities are limited by financial and logistical obstacles, a challenge sharply accentuated for marginalized groups in rural communities. Such activities should remain in-person where possible, and in scenarios where this is not an option, resources should be set aside to encourage grassroots participation.

Theme: Rule of law

South Africa beneficiaries, budget, community, digital, disadvantaged, finance, include, inclusion, inclusive, logistical, motivate, motivation, outputs, participants, planning, regional, remote, seminar, training, virtual, workshop

Project: Tracking Campaign Promises in Albania
Evaluation Date: January 2023
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Given the high relevance and importance of the “truth-o-meter”, the design should have paid more attention (and allocate the necessary resources) to the promotion and communication of the tool and the results. There could have been public conferences and/or round tables with all concerned MPs, CSOs, communities, and media to discuss findings and generate public debates. Therefore, promoting innovative tools to a wide range of stakeholders is as important as their development, otherwise the impact of such tools remains limited and untapped.

Theme: Interaction with government

Albania audience, awareness, budget, civil society, communication, community, engagement, governance, impact, local government, project design, promotion, public, publicity, stakeholder, tools

Project: Tracking Campaign Promises in Albania
Evaluation Date: January 2023
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

One of the main problems of this project was that its design robustness could have been reinforced by a more detailed and comprehensive needs assessment in smaller vs. bigger municipalities in order to avoid obsolescence in some big municipalities. Consequently, inappropriate and generalised needs assessments that lead to a “one size fits all” approach can negatively affect the impact’s likelihood.

Theme: Interaction with government

Albania analysis, assess, assessment, beneficiaries, budget, community, data, engagement, governance, impact, local government, measure, needs, project design, scope, stakeholder, tools

Project: Helping Teenagers to Transform their Communities in Ukraine
Evaluation Date: September 2020
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Explore market costs for professional services and direct expenses for responsible yet effective and fair budgeting for project activities and personnel.

Theme: Youth engagement

Ukraine budget, cost, expenses, expertise, finance, project design, services, staff

Project: Empowering Communities Threatened with Displacement in Thailand
Evaluation Date: December 2020
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Mobilizing funding for local and or provincial cooperation and partnership on policy issues can be highly impactful, as it enables structural problem-solving on policy making and legal challenges. It is, however important, that grantees continue to identify the funding opportunities needed to ensure that an effective team remains in place long term that can coordinate policy efforts, lobby the right circles, and communicate across relevant stakeholders.

Theme: Community activism

Thailand budget, collaboration, communication, donors, effective, finance, issues, law, region, sustainable

Project: Empowering Communities Threatened with Displacement in Thailand
Evaluation Date: December 2020
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Community leaders, organizations and networks are in need of additional resources between project cycles to sustain program outputs and outcomes. UNDEF grantees need to plan ahead, identifying and considering in their strategic planning ways to support the key nodes in regional networks through resources, capacity building, and network expansion.

Theme: Community activism

Thailand budget, collaborate, collaboration, donors, expand, financing, funding, knowledge, strategy, sustainability, tools

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

Lesson Learned:

Involving the media in monitoring public works worked well. Using the media helped empower communities with simplified budget information which they used to demand accountability from their parliamentarians. The media was viewed as a key contributor of information in real time and an avenue through which budget information could be disseminated widely to a large audience.

Theme: Media

Nigeria Accountability, budget, media

Project: Strengthening Youth, Minority and Women’s Organizations in Pakistan
Evaluation Date: June 2016
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

There was no information available on expenditures beyond the final financial report, which stated that there were no major deviations between the planned budget and their expenditures. However, without more information, the evaluators are unable to assess the actual use of the budget, its compliance to the program design or its cost effectiveness.

Theme: Youth engagement

Pakistan budget, evaluation, monitoring

Project: Strengthening Youth, Minority and Women’s Organizations in Pakistan
Evaluation Date: June 2016
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Project management, reporting, monitoring and evaluation systems were inadequate for a development project that required tracking results, monitoring implementation and reporting on performance so as to make sure that the project was within budget and able to make payments promptly.

Theme: Youth engagement

Pakistan budget, evaluate, monitoring

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