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Project: Participatory Rights of Physically Disabled Persons in Georgia
Evaluation Date: April 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Some 11% of the participants in the project found part- or full-time jobs. This percentage could have been higher with better cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science in Georgia, which piloted inclusive vocational education for people with disabilities within six of Georgia’s 18 vocational training centres.

Theme: Rule of law

Georgia disability, government, impact

Project: Active Citizens and Accountable Local Government
Evaluation Date: October 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Due to a misunderstanding the grantee’s approach to data collection and analysis remained incomplete, as the grantee did not undertake a second survey among a representative sample of beneficiaries for comparative purposes.

Theme: Community activism

Bangladesh impact, metrics

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 project hired consultants to draft the principles and held a drafting conference in Bali instead of holding the dissemination conference in Kenya. It also undertook only one pilot application in Africa instead of two. This diluted its African focus and limited the awareness of the principles espoused by the project.

Theme: Rule of law

Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone budget, impact, international

Project: Development of Sustainable Voter Registration Methodologies in Sub-Saharan Africa
Evaluation Date: November 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The incorporation of the specific voter registration findings matrix into other programmes also enhanceds sustainability. For example the BRIDGE programme has a unique curriculum designed to reach all direct and indirect electoral stakeholders, including CSOs, local observers, the media, electoral monitoring groups.

Theme: Tools for knowledge

Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa impact, research

Project: Empowering Communities to participate in Local Governance
Evaluation Date: April 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Project staff conducted survey interviews in their local areas without making a distinction between the general population in Kyrgyzstan and the actual beneficiaries of the project’s Local Action Group formation and training activities. This made it impossible to exactly determine the direct impact of the project’s activities on citizen participation in local decision making.

Theme: Community activism

Kyrgyzstan impact, reporting

Project: Panchayati Raj Institution Action for Community Development
Evaluation Date: January 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Local staff were unfamiliar with the baseline survey methodology, since the analysis of collected baseline data failed to make a gender distinction despite the project’s focus on elected women village council members. A second survey to determine the project’s outcome has not been carried out. The assessment of the project’s impact would have been more reliable had an end-of-project survey been implemented.

UNDEF/India

Theme: Community activism

India impact, metrics

Project: Empowered Civil Society Addressing the Democratic Needs of Rural Women in Myanmar
Evaluation Date: January 2016
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project approach and strategy were largely inspired by work done by UNDP since the 1990s in Myanmar, as part of its people-centered development approach. Several of the individuals who helped establish the partnerships on this project were former UNDP staff members. The years of experience in rural areas ensured that the project design addressed key needs in a realistic manner, adapted to the context.

Theme: Community activism

Myanmar impact, leverage, replication

Project: Human rights training and capacity-building for indigenous people
Evaluation Date: August 2010
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

In terms of effectiveness, the strategy selected for the training of trainers was not well designed. More thought needed to have been given to designing an appropriate pedagogical approach to achieve a more sustainable impact among the targeted indigenous communities.

Theme: Rule of law

Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru impact, pedagogy, training

Project: Civic Education and Civil Society Empowerment in Remote Areas in Myanmar
Evaluation Date: December 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Research that addresses local concerns and brings them to the forefront of national debate is greatly needed. Although policy papers were drafted by September 2012, the papers’ quality was low, and the lack of dissemination wasted potential impact at states/regions level. The only distribution was a compendium of policy papers without foreword or explanation of the aim and the process which led to their drafting. Papers should be presented directly to local government, with abstracts published in local newspapers, and distributed widely to CSOs and political parties.

Theme: Community activism

Myanmar impact, outputs, research

Project: Civic Education and Civil Society Empowerment in Remote Areas in Myanmar
Evaluation Date: December 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project created an initial impetus for political change at a regional level. Participants’ perception of government changed: they viewed themselves as rights-holders that can engage the government and hold it accountable. The project also created a desire for continued learning, for example in training institutes that participants and implementers themselves have created. These centers may continue to teach civic education after grantee funding and trainings have ceased. The subject material they teach is also likely to be specific to regional concerns and taught in the local language.

Theme: Community activism

Myanmar impact, leverage, motivation, sustainability

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