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Project: Strengthening Civil Society and Developing Independent Media in Africa
Evaluation Date: March 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project design was over-ambitious. Although based on a sound analysis of needs, it did not take sufficient account of the institutional weakness of African street papers. The need to devote much attention to their support partly hampered the effectiveness of other activities, such as outreach to civil society.

Theme: Media

Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia design

Project: Strengthening women’s empowerment in municipal government
Evaluation Date: October 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Consultation among implementing partners at project design stage and application of a less theoretical approach to project design might have mitigated the external risks threatening the delivery of the project.
It is vital to assess external risks and develop risk management plans for all projects at design stage. Depending on location, consider: the potential for natural disaster; political change, instability or hurdles; the capacity of partner organizations; and possible access restrictions on intended participants.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Fiji, Kirbati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu design, risk

Project: Strengthening women’s empowerment in municipal government
Evaluation Date: October 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The partnership was efficient and complementary. Each partner worked to its strengths and there was considerable capacity building among the partners. The intelligent allocation of roles and responsibilities between partners resulted in greater project efficiency by playing to the strengths of each partner.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Fiji, Kirbati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu design, partnership, regional

Project: For a More Vigilant Civil Society in Morocco
Evaluation Date: May 2016
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The grantee’s project and partnership management was transparent, respecting the contract terms. The result framework’s achievement indicators, as well as quality control mechanisms were established from the beginning of the project. No significant delays were reported in the mobilisation of human, financial and logistic resources.

Theme: Rule of law

Morocco design, management, planning

Project: Strengthening the capacities of Magistrates
Evaluation Date: July 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project was implemented without taking into consideration the full range of target beneficiaries. Contrary to the project’s plan, the National Trade Union of Judicial Agents, the National Bar Association and CSOs’ members who engage in similar activities were not involved in the project activities.

Theme: Rule of law

Niger collaboration, design, partnership

Project: Strengthening the capacities of Magistrates
Evaluation Date: July 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project’s overall conceptual framework did not properly connect the goal of re-establishing citizens’ trust in justice in Niger with the actual activities carried out since the activities were focused only on the magistrates themselves and not the wider population or local or traditional leaders.

Theme: Rule of law

Niger design, inclusion

Project: Strengthening Civil Society Across Borders to Develop Democracy
Evaluation Date: August 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The extent to which cross-border ties between Ukraine and Moldova were maintained could have been enhanced by a better sustainability strategy to build the knowledge and experience sharing that took place as part of the project. The sustainability relies on the website. However the website of the project could have been better designed to become a forum for keeping in touch and fostering twinning arrangements.

Theme: Tools for knowledge

Moldova, Republic of, Ukraine communication, design

Project: Campagne d’Education au respect des Principes Démocratiques et Promotion du dialogue Démocratique au Burundi
Evaluation Date: November 2014
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The grantee did not differentiate between political leaders and elected members when targeting participants. All elected members are not always political leaders and vice versa. The grantee did not take into account the pyramidal structure of political parties in Burundi in which only few people decide for all members. Interviewees’ comments showed that beneficiaries do not consider themselves as autonomous political actors who can activate internal changes within their own political parties. The change of beneficiaries’ perceptions is essentially individual opinions, which are not able to have an impact on political parties’ practices.

Theme: Community activism

Burundi design, politics, power

Project: Enhancing Women’s participation in Democracy in The Gambia
Evaluation Date: January 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project’s ultimate impact on the representation of women in the Gambia was rather limited, but this was owed to developments outside the control of the grantee such as the boycott of the election by the opposition.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Gambia design, risk

Project: Electoral Justice Principles for Trust in the Electoral Process in Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone
Evaluation Date: September 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The development of a new set of norms for electoral justice by the project was arguably not necessary. Most practitioners interviewed and who responded to the survey agreed that there is a large gap between the fast-paced nature of elections administration and the slower machinery of the judicial sector and judicial reform, but felt that there was already a large and well defined body of principles that applied to the issue, but which were not labeled as “electoral justice.

Theme: Rule of law

Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone design, duplication, elections, justice

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