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Project: Strengthening Grassroots Women’s Groups to Promote and Protect Civic Space in Uganda
Evaluation Date: July 2023
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Prevailing poverty, a reality for many grassroots women, makes it hard for them to focus on pushing for their rights over economic necessity. In fact, economic empowerment can put people in a position to care more about the former and therefore projects that look to advance rights at this level should seek to incorporate an economic development component as part of the wider project.

Theme: Women's empowerment
Uganda   Access, approach, challenge, commitment, disadvantaged, economy, gender, human rights, motivate, motivation, needs, planning, poverty, project design, resources, scope, women
Project: Strengthening Civil Society and Developing Independent Media in Africa
Evaluation Date: March 2013
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

A related design flaw was that insufficient attention was devoted to awareness raising and advocacy activities, which should have underpinned the achievement of the objective concerning greater representation of socially disadvantaged people. Any new project that aims at reinforcing the democratic representation of poor and marginalized people in the street paper context should include an explicit public awareness and advocacy strategy. This strategy should address specific target audiences, such as municipal government and elected officials.

Theme: Media
Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia   advocacy, media, poverty
Project: Strengthening Civil Society and Developing Independent Media in Africa
Evaluation Date: March 2013
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

The project’s relevance was diminished by a number of design flaws. There was an imbalance between the objectives of the project – which concerned the development of media freedom and independent news, as well as empowerment of the poor – and the project activities, which were directed towards capacity building of the papers themselves and training. Training and capacity building were given priority over achieving enhanced representation.

Theme: Media
Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia   empowerment, poverty
Project: Strengthening Civil Society and Developing Independent Media in Africa
Evaluation Date: March 2013
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

One important element of impact is related to the role of street papers as social enterprises. By supporting the network of papers, the project effectively supported one of the few African social enterprise networks currently in existence. This is significant in that social enterprises are likely to become a key tool in future, as government and civil society develop new strategies to tackle poverty.

Theme: Media
Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia   poverty, social enterprise, tools

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