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Project: A New Constitution: Historical Opportunity to Advance Gender Equality and Women’s Rights in Chile
Evaluation Date: May 2024
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

When operating in a highly charged political context, where significant stakeholders can pro-actively resist change, disinformation campaigns are increasingly a fact of life. To counter this, project managers should be able to rely on a robust media/engagement strategy to counter false messages that undermine the integrity of their project.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Chile audience, communications, consultation, credibility, democracy, digital, evidence, fake, gender, language, management, messaging, mitigate, mitigation, politics, project design, risk, social, transparency, transparent, women

Project: A New Constitution: Historical Opportunity to Advance Gender Equality and Women’s Rights in Chile
Evaluation Date: May 2024
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Project designers and managers should always be alive to what is ultimately achievable – and limit scope and ambition accordingly. The scope of the project was very broad, with many activities and actors to cover, and challenging to manage. The UNDEF partner admits they were “carried away by the enthusiasm” of the first constitutional reform process, following the social protests of 2019. The project did not necessarily suffer as a consequence, but it placed strain on delivery.

UDF-19-869-CHI

Theme: Women's empowerment

Chile capacity, consultation, democracy, engagement, focus, gender, goals, management, motivate, motivation, objectives, performance, planning, resources, risk, women

Project: A New Constitution: Historical Opportunity to Advance Gender Equality and Women’s Rights in Chile
Evaluation Date: May 2024
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Capturing, and preserving for future use, key takeaways and materials should be an integral part of any successful and well-run project. In the present case, the experience of the constitutional reform processes in Chile and lessons learned from the project will self-evidently be of wider interest in the Latin American region, and beyond.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Chile analysis, consultation, democracy, evidence, gender, knowledge, management, outputs, ownership, quality control, relevant, resources, results, women

Project: Raising the Social and Political Profile of Youth in Mozambique
Evaluation Date: April 2024
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The challenges posed by an unexpected event, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, underscored the importance of fostering strong connections with project stakeholders, adaptability, and proactive engagement. In this case, faced with a lockdown and the inability to conduct planned activities, the project successfully maintained its course, sustained stakeholder engagement, and capitalized on unforeseen opportunities to achieve enhanced outcomes.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Mozambique adjust, collaborate, Coordinate, impact, management, mitigate, mitigation, needs, pandemic, partnership, project design, relationships, result, risk

Project: Raising the Social and Political Profile of Youth in Mozambique
Evaluation Date: April 2024
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project experience revealed that regular follow-up with project partners to monitor key activities, such as beneficiary selection, ensures accountability and maintains alignment with project goals and objectives. In this case, the project focal points across the provinces undertook the task of beneficiary selection without the consistent guidance and follow-up from the grantee. This led to the adoption of diverse selection criteria, some of which inadvertently contributed to higher participant turnover rates.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Mozambique audience, beneficiaries, collaborate, Coordinate, decision, management, ownership, participation, project design, quality control, relevant, results, strategy, youth

Project: Strengthening Human Rights Protection Through Legal Education in Haiti
Evaluation Date: June 2018
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Grantees must be transparent with donors and target audience, sharing important information that can affect the implementation of the project, clearly explaining to the participating organizations in which framework the activities are based and which objectives they have. This requires a strong executive capacity that can manage by results. It should also involve a larger number of staff / members in project evaluation processes; and share evaluation reports with all its members to promote collective learning. Actions should be properly planned and documented using electronic records (administration and programmatic content) of implemented projects.

Theme: Rule of law

Haiti donors, evaluation, information, management

Project: Youth Action for Democracy (YAD) - Strengthening Democracy by Empowering Youth in Pakistan
Evaluation Date: May 2014
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

There was very little hard data available for the evaluators’ use. The Final Narrative Report was not completed until more than a year after the project was finished and the report was completed by remaining grantee staff and youth district managers, primarily on recollection and what was in the midterm report. If the grantee recorded activity level data, this did not appear to have been systematically collected and aggregated or used for project management or monitoring purposes.

Theme: Youth engagement

Pakistan data, management, monitoring

Project: Strengthening Participation of Women in Geographically Deprived Communities in Local Governance in Ghana
Evaluation Date: June 2017
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

In future similar projects in Ghana there should be more focus and resources given to capacity building, to support training on CSO management, the development of board charters for CSOs, training on proposal writing training and basic financial management for CSOs.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Ghana capacity, management

Project: Promoting political participation of marginalized populations in Ecuador
Evaluation Date: October 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

If a project is managed remotely and implemented by an organisation that is not present in the country, there should be a capacity assessment to ensure that there is sufficient support provided to local partners both in terms of day to day monitoring and evaluation but also in terms of long term institution building.

Theme: Youth engagement

Ecuador management

Project: Promoting democratic and human rights values among Rwandan youth
Evaluation Date: February 2014
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

A project team made up of the grantee’s Executive Director and the Project Director was responsible for project management, while relevant board members provided strategic direction. The team was widely appreciated by project participants and trainers for its willingness to engage with them and its pro-active approach to dealing with young people’s concerns and needs. The quality of project management was also visible in how the grantee dealt with the political sensitivity of the issues raised.

Theme: Youth engagement

Rwanda management, politics

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