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

Lesson Learned:

Most CSOs interviewed appeared to have participated in only one or two project activities, so the actual extent of the training and district level workshop activities is uncertain. There appeared to be no follow up to the trainings or to the issues identified in district workshops/forums. The trainings themselves did not appear to have been delivered on the basis of need.

Theme: Youth engagement

Pakistan impact, training

Project: Narrowing the Gender Gap in Flood Affected Areas of Pakistan
Evaluation Date: July 2014
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The monitoring and evaluation plan was admirably comprehensive as was the baseline survey. However, the impact survey only repeated a portion of the baseline questions which makes determination of impact difficult.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Pakistan data, impact, survey

Project: Empowering the Voice of a New Generation in Pakistan
Evaluation Date: August 2014
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The outcome data that would be needed to determine impact was not collected, despite a good monitoring and evaluation plan in the project document. The planned knowledge, attitude and practices surveys could have provided impact information on participating youth in Pakistan but they were not completed.

Theme: Youth engagement

Pakistan evaluation, impact, monitoring

Project: Education and Training of Youth for Democracy in Burkina Faso
Evaluation Date: June 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The grantee was not able to provide indicators related to the number of leaders trained who voted; and no information was available to assess the impact of the messages delivered to the youth by the young trained leaders. In this respect, the grantee was very optimistic to consider that increasing knowledge would be sufficient to motivate and mobilize the young leaders, and by extension, the youth of Burkina Faso to vote.

Theme: Youth engagement

Burkina Faso impact, motivation

Project: Promoting Good Governance among Tribal Inhabitants in Bangladesh (PROGGATI)
Evaluation Date: December 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project met its outputs however the extent of its impact is unclear. It did undertake a baseline in Year 1 that provided some descriptive but useful information on the targeted communities. However, this baseline was not repeated so there is no end-of-project data that it could be compared to.

Theme: Community activism

Bangladesh baseline, impact, survey

Project: Citizen Participation to Improve Local Governance
Evaluation Date: January 2014
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

There was no consolidated data on the results of the project. The grantee primarily tracked activities, and reported several anecdotal changes, which was insufficient to determine the overall project impact on municipal policy changes.

Theme: Community activism

Benin data, impact

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

Lesson Learned:

Project follow-up should have included applied research. The goal of such research would be to analyse critically and comparatively the various experiences and advances encountered by the project. This exercise should identify, in the context of a fragile democracy, the modalities and the possible alternatives for optimising women’s empowerment and guaranteeing as much as possible the application of the legal framework, as well as following up and carrying out the recommended support or judicial measures.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Honduras impact, research, sustainability

Project: Youth Training for Democracy and Development
Evaluation Date: May 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project sought to strengthen democratization processes in rural areas focusing by on regions with a fragile social fabric and weak civil society. In this respect the multiplication of training opportunities provided by programme graduates through their activities in their communities, further enhanced the project’s effectiveness.

UNDEF/Guatemala

Theme: Youth engagement

Guatemala impact, rural, youth

Project: Citizen Journalists for Free and Fair Elections in Georgia
Evaluation Date: April 2014
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The grantee in Georgia did undertake a good internal monitoring effort to track progress of project indicators, but these indicators primarily tracked outputs. This project might have had more significant but these were invisible to the evaluators. Most of the information on higher level outcomes was anecdotal and without more data, it was not possible to evaluate to which extent results were achieved.

Theme: Media

Georgia design, impact, metrics

Project: Supporting civic participation of grassroots communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Evaluation Date: June 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The training sessions for grass-roots trainers were largely one-offs. The failure to build on these sessions made it difficult to assess the extent to which participants had understood and were able to use the knowledge imparted to them. The same applies to the guided tours to the offices of local administrations, and therefore it is unclear if participants acquired a sufficient understanding of administrative processes to conduct lobbying or other activities.

UNDEF/DRC

Theme: Rule of law

Democratic Republic of the Congo impact, lobbying, training

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