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Project: Civic education and empowerment for more women in leadership, from villages to parliament in Fiji
Evaluation Date: July 2016
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project was managed on a somewhat ad-hoc basis. The grantee was working with reduced human resources and there were weaknesses in the management capacity of the team. Lack of SMART key-indicators and, of a formal monitoring system was another problem. The grantee board members and project manager also had scarce and irregular contacts with the implementing organizations, a situation that jeopardizes achievement of expected outcomes and sustainability of the grantee’s goal of building a network.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Fiji monitoring, network, sustainability

Project: Promoting Women's Participation in Local Budgetary Processes
Evaluation Date: March 2016
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Women NGOs/CBOs members’ capacity in Niger is still basic. Women need to strengthen their political and technical expertise. The women from research/action groups improved their ability to participate in the decision-making process, but there is no evidence that they are able to manage and monitor the compliance of municipal investments (i.e. health, water sanitation, education, etc.). In addition the political weight of women within municipalities is still weak.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Niger monitoring, participation

Project: Enhancing Dialogue for Inclusive Constitution
Evaluation Date: February 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Report on achievements systematically to improve the quantitative and qualitative assessment of impact and of the needs that remain. This may also help to refine long-term strategy. The grantee did not keep track of results-oriented monitoring documentation relative to the initial baseline contextual analysis.

Theme: Interaction with government

Nepal impact, monitoring

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

Lesson Learned:

Weaknesses in the design of indicators limited the grantee’s analysis of impact on the rights of disabled persons in Georgia, as they mostly reflected on developments external to the project’s activities. Clearer indicators could have made linked activities more closely with what they were designed to achieve.

Theme: Rule of law

Georgia indicators, monitoring

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

Lesson Learned:

Impact was also hampered due to the lack of any coordination and collaboration mechanisms between the project activities taking place in Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, and Peru. Useful modes of collaboration could have included peer-to-peer monitoring, and exchange of experience between the four countries. If such a mechanism had been available, lessons learnt could have been distilled and analysed, thus enhancing the project’s impact.

Theme: Rule of law

Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru design, monitoring, regional

Project: Development Pacts: An accountability tool in the hands of local communities in Kyrgyzstan
Evaluation Date: November 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The service monitoring arrangements secured on-the-spot verification of the actual implementation of commitments made under the Development Pacts, including the compliant use of allocated funds. Most project beneficiaries expressed their high satisfaction with this monitoring process, and described it as inclusive, as it involved all members of the local community in the verification of completeness and quality of services.

Theme: Community activism

Kyrgyzstan inclusion, monitoring, results, services

Project: Best Practices for Women´s Participation in Democracy at Local Levels (Argentina)
Evaluation Date: April 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Project monitoring could have been enhanced with a more efficient strategic approach focused on analyzing the results, and the integration of lessons learned in the work with beneficiaries.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Argentina monitoring, results

Project: Grassroots Gender Accountability in Uganda
Evaluation Date: April 2014
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Due to a lack of pertinent target indicator data the grantee fails to establish the extent to which district budget resources allocated to gender-specific projects have been increased. The grantee also failed to present data to demonstrate how media involvement increased grassroots’ ability to challenge the current state of local service budgeting and delivery.

Theme: Interaction with government

Uganda budget, data, monitoring

Project: Increasing Women’s Participation in Politics and Decision Making in Angola
Evaluation Date:
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project had difficulty executing other activities (baseline, monitoring, and impact assessment). An adequate strategy for outcome and impact monitoring was not designed. The grantee had many training initiatives but their focus seemed to be the execution of activities, with not enough attention paid to achieving strategically planned behavioral changes.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Angola monitoring

Project: Increasing Women’s Participation in Politics and Decision Making in Angola
Evaluation Date: March 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The grantee needed to develop impact monitoring and evaluation mechanisms. The absence of monitoring and evaluation mechanisms (record of activities, risk analysis, monitoring in the provinces, outcome and impact assessment) affected the quality of the project’s outcomes and the extent to which they were achieved. No strategy to capitalize on the impact achieved had been executed. Opinions about the project’s results are very general. The members of the technical team and the beneficiaries interviewed all had difficulty recalling the activities in which they had participated in any detail.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Angola monitoring

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