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

Lesson Learned:

Participants felt that the project had an abrupt ending and some were waiting for it to continue. The mobile phones that were given to the participants as part of the project were also returned to the grantee at the end so that the beneficiaries were not automatically able to continue to use the tools they had learned.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Pakistan exit, needs, strategy

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

Lesson Learned:

The usefulness of the baseline study that was used to select the CBO partners in 20 locations in Pakistan, was uncertain as it assessed CBOs and their attributes rather than their qualifications. Some of the CBOs seemed extremely competent, but others might not have been the most appropriate choices. For instance, at least two did not appear to have offices where the Voice of a New Generation groups were expected to meet and the Information Resource Centres to be housed.

Theme: Youth engagement

Pakistan baseline, needs, youth

Project: Developing alternative models of natural resource governance based on indigenous community participation in Aceh
Evaluation Date: July 2016
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Strategic weaknesses in the project’s design and needs assessment undermined the project’s relevance. The project did not capture the contextual information needed for project implementation and therefore the issues faced by Mukims were not adequately addressed during the design and implementation phases. As a consequence, activities were not related to priority issues.

Theme: Community activism

Indonesia design, needs, relevance

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

Lesson Learned:

The project focused on developing young leaders’ knowledge by means of a large quantity of sensitization activities and trainings. It is uncertain that those activities responded to genuine needs, due to the lack of benchmarks regarding the reasons for the non-participation of the youth in electoral processes.

Theme: Youth engagement

Burkina Faso elections, needs, youth

Project: Civic Participation of Indigenous Youth for the Strengthening of Democracy
Evaluation Date: January 2016
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Important topics such as the prevention of violence, sexual and reproductive health and gender equality were not been sufficiently elaborated during the training programme.

Theme: Youth engagement

Guatemala needs, training

Project: Civic Participation of Indigenous Youth for the Strengthening of Democracy
Evaluation Date: January 2016
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The process of training youth leaders raised civic awareness and supported organizational processes amongst young people in Guatemala. Although their understanding of civic participation as a tool for political change still needs to be strengthened, the lessons learned were highly valued by the participants who were empowered to include issues that affect them in public policy on youth.

Theme: Youth engagement

Guatemala empowerment, needs

Project: For a More Vigilant Civil Society in Morocco
Evaluation Date: May 2016
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Disparities among the participants regarding their basic knowledge on key-topics hindered the satisfactory implementation of some training sessions. Organizing trainees into more homogeneous groups by distinguishing different levels of training – basic, advanced – in topics such as national development and sectorial, as well as public finances and local governance could address the issue.

Theme: Rule of law

Morocco assessment, needs, training

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

Lesson Learned:

Hands-on project management and close supervision of activities played a key role. All planned activities were carefully organized by the project management team. All project files seen by the evaluator show that each activity was the object of specific methodological guidance, setting priorities, identifying needs, and determining how to meet these goals.

Theme: Tools for knowledge

Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa needs, project management

Project: Strengthening the Leadership of Women in Local Democracy – Gram Panchayats (Village Councils in India)
Evaluation Date: September 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

In order to assess the progress of the elected women beyond the project the grantee should strengthen its data collection. This will also help maintain their strategic focus. Remaining – and new – needs among the elected women should be assessed before embarking on new training activity supporting the women’s federations.

Theme: Women's empowerment

India needs, training

Project: Reinforcement of the role and image of women in West African media
Evaluation Date: October 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project design put an emphasis on economic, social and political problems specific to women in the region: access to land ownership, discrimination, gender-based and family violence. It also aimed to support women’s participation in democratic governance by highlighting women’s concerns and opinions. In that sense the projects expected results constituted appropriate responses to the problems identified.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger design, needs, women

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