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Project: Strengthening Media to Promote Inclusive Democracy in Mali
Evaluation Date: January 2023
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Project activity costs can be reduced through close coordination, mutual trust and regular consultation with key implementing partners that can lead to financial burden sharing and increased buy-in. This project, for example, reduced costs by persuading implementing partners to share some of the financial burden for certain events, when co-hosting.

Theme: Media
Mali   conference, consult, Coordinate, efficiency, efficient, expenditure, expense, ownership, partner, plan, planning, project management, saving, seminar, share, sharing, training, venue, workshop
Project: Empowering Female and Youth Domestic Workers in Uganda
Evaluation Date: September 2020
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

In designing a project that addresses knowledge gaps, builds and strengthens locally owned association structures and looks to improve the legal environment, PLA created outcomes that support each other, and the overall objective of the project.

Theme: Rule of law
Uganda   association, knowledge, law, local, objective, ownership, support
Project: Enabling Women to Participate in Sustainable Water Management in Armenia
Evaluation Date: November 2021
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

In transitioning societies with the control and accountability mechanisms under development having tangible assets delivered, strategic position-holders interested, and locally recognized agents of change with multiplication potential involved are important to ensure the target population’s immediate interest, as well as the longer-term sense of ownership to be developed and the sustainability of the project to be achieved. Whenever possible, adding the beneficiary financial contribution element, such as community funds, can help in enhancing the sense of ownership and accountability for public expenditures and improving processes for public consultation in development planning.

Theme: Women's empowerment, Interaction with government
Armenia   Accountability, beneficiaries, change, community, decentralize, finance, financial, fund, long-term, ownership, planning, stakeholder, sustainability, sustainable, target
Project: Strengthening Participation of Women in Geographically Deprived Communities in Local Governance in Ghana
Evaluation Date: June 2017
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Initially, transport allowances for participants were useful to motivate beneficiaries, but in the long-term individual contributions should be requested to build a spirit of self-sufficiency and self-reliance.

Theme: Women's empowerment
Ghana   independence, ownership
Project: Citizen Participation to Improve Local Governance
Evaluation Date: January 2014
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Thanks to the project’s initial in-depth consultations with the main stakeholders in each municipality the project gained strong local approval and support for its activities in all target municipalities in Benin.

Theme: Community activism
Benin   ownership, stakeholder
Project: Strengthening Young Women’s Civic Participation and Leadership in Uganda
Evaluation Date: May 2017
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Six months after the end of the project in Uganda, beneficiaries were still expecting financial support and guidance from the grantee. Systematic and active involvement of the project beneficiaries during various follow-up activities could have enhanced their ownership and ensured their long term commitment to the project activities and results.

Theme: Women's empowerment
Uganda   ownership, sustainability
Project: Strengthening Civil Society and Developing Independent Media in Africa
Evaluation Date: March 2013
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

The project was generally efficient. However the project management arrangements did not explicitly give a role to the directors and editors of individual papers in the region, thus limiting their sense of ownership of the project.

Theme: Media
Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia   efficiency, ownership
Project: Towards Collaborative and Transparent Local Development Planning
Evaluation Date: December 2015
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

The project in Togo funded several micro-projects, enabling the participants to carry out their planning actions and observe visible results from their efforts. This source of motivation was probably the main reason for their continued involvement.

Theme: Community activism
Togo   local development, ownership
Project: Active Citizens and Accountable Local Government
Evaluation Date: October 2011
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

There are now spaces for citizens’ concerns and the consideration of their suggestions – for example in the context of local budget formulation. There is also evidence that this has led to improved levels of acceptance of things like local tax payment among the rural population in Bangladesh.

Theme: Community activism
Bangladesh   decision making, ownership, rural
Project: Empowering Communities to participate in Local Governance
Evaluation Date: April 2011
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Numerous success stories show that the establishment of the Local Action Groups in Kyrgyzstan offered a new mode of cooperation between local Kenesh deputies, other relevant stakeholders and the local population to bring about change. As a consequence, public input and participation is now effectively considered in decision-making processes relevant to these local communities.

Theme: Community activism
Kyrgyzstan   community, ownership
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