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Project: Promoting Human Rights through Providing Access to Information for Marginalized Women in Zimbabwe
Evaluation Date: November 2015
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The grantee presented the project as a partnership with three other NGOs and a private commercial radio station. The partners clearly brought added value to the proposal because they had long-standing experience working with women in the project areas. However, the partners had been insufficiently involved in the design of the project, and that they were presented with a set of activities to implement but had had little say in defining the project’s strategy.

Theme: Media

Zimbabwe design, partnership, strategy

Project: Empowering Local CSOs in Yemen through Participation in Local Governance
Evaluation Date: May 2015
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project might have benefited from a small grants scheme. Interviewees at the local level regretted that there had been no provisions for a small grants process in the project design. Such a process might have indeed helped enhance the relevance of the multi-stakeholder dialogues at local level, and communities’ buy-in in the project, as a result of the availability of funds to take immediate action.

Theme: Community activism

Yemen budget, grants, partnership

Project: Promotion of Women’s Empowerment and Rights in Somalia
Evaluation Date: June 2016
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Some partners were replaced during the project because they lacked commitment and did not attend meetings. Some of the organizations that were replaced had ceased operations, and in some cases CSOs insisted on nominating unqualified Resource Persons unacceptable to the grantee. Since the CSOs had signed memoranda of understanding with grantee and were considered to be non-performing against these, replacement was relatively smooth.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Somalia adapt, contract, partnership

Project: Enhancing the Functional Protection of Human Rights in Ethiopia
Evaluation Date: May 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Project design should build as much on other relevant programmes within the same sector. In this case the UNDP Democratic Institutions Programme in Ethiopia. Future project design should be based on an integrated programmr of activities to ensure that lessons learned from implementation are taken into account by other actors, including Ethiopian civil society and other national human rights institutions with linkages to relevant UN and other development agencies.

Theme: Rule of law

Ethiopia collaborate, partnership

Project: Strengthening women’s empowerment in municipal government
Evaluation Date: October 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The partnership was efficient and complementary. Each partner worked to its strengths and there was considerable capacity building among the partners. The intelligent allocation of roles and responsibilities between partners resulted in greater project efficiency by playing to the strengths of each partner.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Fiji, Kirbati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu design, partnership, regional

Project: Strengthening the capacities of Magistrates
Evaluation Date: July 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project was implemented without taking into consideration the full range of target beneficiaries. Contrary to the project’s plan, the National Trade Union of Judicial Agents, the National Bar Association and CSOs’ members who engage in similar activities were not involved in the project activities.

Theme: Rule of law

Niger collaboration, design, partnership

Project: Human rights and democracy campaign
Evaluation Date: October 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The grantee’s multidisciplinary approach brought together organisations with complementary areas of expertise mixing rural development, democratization and human rights. This proved appropriate and contributed to the success of the project.

Theme: Rule of law

Senegal human rights, partnership, rural

Project: Electoral Justice Principles for Trust in the Electoral Process in Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone
Evaluation Date: September 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

There was also a large group of stakeholders active in supporting the electoral process in which the project was not integrated. This included the main election group chaired by the Ministry of Finance and Trade in Sierra Leone. There were other efforts that this project could have coordinated with. For example, the UN Peacebuilding Fund supported a non-state actors project which worked with wide range of groups to build consensus for political tolerance and non-violence, including civil society.

Theme: Rule of law

Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone consensus, partnership

Project: Cultivating Democratic Leaders from Marginalized Groups in Thailand
Evaluation Date: December 2010
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Before beginning on project design, ensure that issues that need to be addressed have been mapped comprehensively and a stocktaking of previous and ongoing projects or programmes with the same or similar focus. Carry out a stakeholder analysis of potential partners’ capacity and financial viability. Does an organization have a secure funding base or does it stumble from project to project seeking funds to stay afloat? If there are resourcing problems in a given area, or any group of NGOs, do not add to these by bringing in short-term funds without addressing the longer-term problem.

Theme: Youth engagement

Thailand baseline, design, local knowledge, partnership

Project: Strengthening Municipal Capacity for Access to Public Information in El Salvador
Evaluation Date: August 2014
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The grantee created strategic alliances with three institutions of complementary capacities and competencies in an attempt to maximize impact. This allowed the issue to be raised in public educational centres, thereby significantly multiplying knowledge, and it enabled a more efficient deployment of resources. The grantee was a particularly important ally for the governmental Institute for Access to Public Information (IAPI) in El Salvador. However, IAPI’s institutional fragility kept it from capitalizing on the aid provided by the grantee by the end of the project. This could have been a key element to ensure a relevant and high-quality education process in other municipalities.

Theme: Rule of law

El Salvador collaborate, partnership

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