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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:

Associations supported by paying members, more so than local NGOs, can benefit from projects that expand their areas of operations by adding members and thus improving their financial sustainability.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Uganda capacity, expansion, finance, funding, membership, needs, resources, results, revenue, scope, sustainable

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

Lesson Learned:

The case of the grantee Zimam demonstrated that even though the organisation did not have a significant track record, the quality of the project proposal submitted by the grantee’s finance team could demonstrate their capability to manage funds. Indeed, UNDEF showed audacity and open-mindedness in agreeing to fund this young organisation.

Theme: Youth engagement, Interaction with government

Palestine approach, commitment, credibility, expertise, finance, fund, grassroots, project design, project management, proposal

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: Enabling Women to Participate in Sustainable Water Management in Armenia
Evaluation Date: November 2021
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

In transitioning societies with the control and accountability mechanisms under development having tangible assets delivered, strategic position-holders interested, and locally recognized agents of change with multiplication potential involved are important to ensure the target population’s immediate interest, as well as the longer-term sense of ownership to be developed and the sustainability of the project to be achieved. Whenever possible, adding the beneficiary financial contribution element, such as community funds, can help in enhancing the sense of ownership and accountability for public expenditures and improving processes for public consultation in development planning.

Theme: Women's empowerment, Interaction with government

Armenia Accountability, beneficiaries, change, community, decentralize, finance, financial, fund, long-term, ownership, planning, stakeholder, sustainability, sustainable, target

Project: Improving Maya Women's Access to Justice in Rural Guatemala
Evaluation Date: March 2022
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Survivors of gender-based violence need integrated support services throughout the process to seek justice. This often involves land titles, housing, childcare, income generation, and psychosocial support services. Established relationships with organizations that can offer these services will help women to access integrated support that they need.

Theme: Women's empowerment, Rule of law

Guatemala Access, advocate, aid, capacity, collaborate, collaboration, empowerment, finance, institutions, necessity, needs, partnerships, resources, rights, SGBV, tools

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

Lesson Learned:

To strengthen collaboration between CSOs and States officials, it is necessary to consider the following:
a. The commitment of the authorities to grant authorisations for the financing and implementation of similar projects.
b. Planning awareness and targeted communication activities to overcome the mistrust and lack of motivation on the part of CSOs and youth.
c. Interventions must create spaces for dialogue and collaboration, managed by unbiased and trusted keys actors and facilitators.

Theme: Interaction with government

Algeria collaborate, considerations, credibility, engagement, environment, finance, focus, funding, funds, government, improve, initiatives, intervene, meeting, motivate, network, partner, partnership, project design, relationship, trustworthy, young people

Project: Promoting Participatory Governance and the Rule of Law in South Kivu
Evaluation Date: January 2022
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The measures taken by the project in order to adapt to the COVID 19 pandemic (which included the development of COVID-related awareness campaigns, the implementation of concrete measures to avoid the spread of COVID during the implementation of project activities and the necessary budgetary reallocations to accommodate for the purchase of sanitary protection material) were also key to ensuring the success of the project.

Theme: Rule of law

Democratic Republic of the Congo challenge, change, circumstances, finance, improve, issue, mitigation, needs, overcome, planning, prevention, preventive, resources, risk, safety

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 Civil Society and Women to Engage in Policy Processes
Evaluation Date: August 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

One of the grantee’s implementation partners perpetrated significant fraud and had to be excluded from the project. Thanks to the solvency of the grantee, its organisation was able to find appropriate solutions to respond to these situations: using its own funds, it paid out an amount equivalent to the fraud in order to guarantee the implementation of the activities that had been initially planned. Financial and technical follow-up procedures were developed to ensure transparency in the management and to guarantee a good level of efficiency. Moreover, the grantee provided support and reinforcement of the capabilities of its implementation partners in financial and technical areas as well as in managing human resources.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Honduras finance, management, transparency

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