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Project: Strengthening Grassroots Women’s Groups to Promote and Protect Civic Space in Uganda
Evaluation Date: July 2023
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Bringing together groups of women in places where they feel comfortable talking and discussing issues can help build longer-term momentum for a shift in attitudes, even if this is very hard to measure.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Uganda approach, change, collaborate, Coordinate, culture, dialogue, empowerment, environment, gender, ideas, impact, join, meeting, offline, openness, relationships, results, safe, women

Project: Strengthening Grassroots Women’s Groups to Promote and Protect Civic Space in Uganda
Evaluation Date: July 2023
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Supporting a grantee to expand its geographical area of operation can enable them to create and build new networks that can increase awareness of what they do and even contribute to institutional sustainability.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Uganda change, collaborate, continuation, continue, Coordinate, expansion, geographic area, increased awareness, relationships, scale, scope, sustainable

Project: Strengthening Grassroots Women’s Groups to Promote and Protect Civic Space in Uganda
Evaluation Date: July 2023
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Empowering women when it comes to realizing their rights, not just learning about them, requires the support of men – both in their family and in the community at-large – and they should be brought on board to champion wider societal transformation around gender.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Uganda approach, change, claim, collaborate, community, empowerment, impact, needs, participants, participation, promote, promotion, reform, relationships, women

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

Lesson Learned:

Clarity around how, and who, to engage within political party structures is important for targeting interventions at those most likely to embed learning in the structure. But even when internal learning structures within political parties are engaged – like the ANCs OR Tambo School of Leadership, a lack of resources to cascade learning can limit the number of indirect beneficiaries.

Theme: Rule of law

South Africa approach, beneficiary, change, Coordinate, coordination, impact, motivate, motivation, objectives, participation, politics, project design, results, seminar, stakeholder, sustainable, training, workshop

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

Lesson Learned:

Building cross-party networks of LGBTQI+ activists can ensure that key issues are retained on the agenda and more substantively engaged across the political spectrum.

Theme: Rule of law

South Africa change, community, Coordinate, dialogue, engagement, human rights, impact, motivate, motivation, needs, networking, outputs, participation, policy, politics, reform, relationships, relevant

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

Lesson Learned:

Engagement with, and mapping of, prospective national institutional stakeholders in advance of a project taking place is critical to ensuring that the activities proposed align with their interests and priorities and are feasible in the timeframes proposed.

Theme: Rule of law

South Africa approach, beneficiaries, beneficiary, change, commitment, Coordinate, coordination, engagement, goals, impact, needs, objectives, outputs, planning, project design, proposal, reform, relevance, relevant, results, scope, stakeholder

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

Lesson Learned:

Project design processes must carefully think through the outputs required for outcomes to be achieved and be realistic in what transformation training can bring in a relatively short period of time to a political party, which is not just a technical entity, but a political body. One training on LGBTQI+ issues for a political party is unlikely to trigger significant policy or legal changes in a two-year period.

Theme: Rule of law

South Africa change, effective, goals, impact, law, parties, planning, policies, politics, project design, reform, results, seminar, stakeholder, training, workshop

Project: Citizens: empowering local communities, improving local governance
Evaluation Date: July 2023
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The following were the factors for a well-designed and effectively implemented youth engagement project:

The project design with a theory of change that was shared and assimilated by the implementation team and the implementing partners.
The strategy used to enter new communities, which was pragmatic, culturally sensitive, and politically neutral.
The choice of implementing partners (they were from within the communities, credible, and well-known at the local level).
The partnership strategy, which was based on empowering implementing partners and building their capacity.
The adequate approach for positive youth engagement (recognition, accountability, and exploring their potential).
The quality of the training programme and the diversity of learning formats.
Well thought-out communication.

Theme: Youth engagement, Interaction with government

Palestine change, communicate, community, culture, effective, empowerment, implement, local, motivate, motivation, needs, participation, partner, politics, project design, quality control, training, youth

Project: Strengthening Media to Promote Inclusive Democracy in Mali
Evaluation Date: January 2023
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Without losing sight of the importance of Civil and Political Rights, a focus on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights can be more impactful in certain restricting contexts, and pave the way (e.g., with “transitional” authorities) for the advocacy of a wider spectrum of human rights when circumstances allow.

Theme: Media

Mali advocate, change, culture, economy, empowerment, impact, media, project design, rights, social, transition

Project: Promoting Gender-Sensitive Personal Status Laws in Lebanon
Evaluation Date: September 2022
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Advocacy projects in highly complex contexts require rigorous monitoring to (i) strengthen coalitions and ties despite changes to the positions of stakeholders and changing power dynamics; and to (ii) capture and adapt to the different levels of changes that could occur.

Theme: Women's empowerment, Rule of law

Lebanon adapt, advocacy, change, collaborate, Coordinate, gender, monitoring, partner, power, reform, relationships, risk, stakeholder, women

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