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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:

The volume of activities proposed by a project does not always equate to a greater impact. Sometimes giving more focus, either in terms of geographic spread or to the activities being undertaken, can generate more sustained and involved engagement and more substantive change.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Uganda area, effective, focus, impact, local, motivate, motivation, planning, project design, quality, quantity, region, relevance, results, scope, size, specific

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

Lesson Learned:

Communication strategies should reflect the local context and most importantly be tailored towards the target audience. It is therefore important to identify the communication tools with the greatest local resonance and translate all material into local languages.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Uganda adapt, approach, areas, awareness, communication, community, culture, effectiveness, information, needs, regions, relevance, resources, results, strategy, translation

Project: Strengthening Democracy Through LGBT Political Participation in South Africa
Evaluation Date: August 2023
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Engagement with, and mapping of, prospective national institutional stakeholders in advance of a project taking place is critical to ensuring that the activities proposed align with their interests and priorities and are feasible in the timeframes proposed.

Theme: Rule of law

South Africa approach, beneficiaries, beneficiary, change, commitment, Coordinate, coordination, engagement, goals, impact, needs, objectives, outputs, planning, project design, proposal, reform, relevance, relevant, results, scope, stakeholder

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: Civil Sector Capacity Building Initiative in Kazakhstan
Evaluation Date: March 2016
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The usefulness of the training for the accountability coaches – who were then intended to train NGOs in various regions of Kazakhstan – was mixed. Responses varied depending on the level of interest and knowledge of the participants. The training should have been more grounded in the wider development context so as to ensure that it built on existing efforts, demonstrated a good understanding of its intended beneficiaries and targeted NGOs that lack accountability.

Theme: Community activism

Kazakhstan design, relevance, training

Project: Civil Sector Capacity Building Initiative in Kazakhstan
Evaluation Date: March 2016
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

There was limited interest by the targeted beneficiaries in participating in the project. The grantee therefore had to abandon some of its activities and adapt others. Only five of the NGOs from the initial training for Accountability Coaches continued to participate in the second training on monitoring and evaluation; a third training focused almost exclusively on how to produce better annual reports for the NGOs chosen as subgrantees. Only three out of 75 contacted donors responded to the online survey of donor practices.

Theme: Community activism

Kazakhstan outreach, relevance

Project: Promoting political participation of marginalized populations in Ecuador
Evaluation Date: October 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The training content and methodology was designed in close collaboration with the beneficiaries. This approach resulted in the training being relevant and effective.

Theme: Youth engagement

Ecuador relevance, training

Project: Improving the Participation of 155 Women's Groups
Evaluation Date: October 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The field workers played an essential role, as they ensured close monitoring of the beneficiary groups, which clearly contributed to the efficiency of the initiatives. These staff were well integrated into the local population, spoke the local language and served as intermediaries between the rural population, the authorities and the media.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Côte d'Ivoire post-conflict, relevance, staffing, trust

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

Lesson Learned:

The training in Ethiopia covered issues such as identification of human rights violations and of applicable legislation and international standards. The training sessions fully met participants’ expectations and requirements of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission. Trainers took a very practical approach and followed up with a hands-on coaching session on the preparation of the first National Status Report on the implementation of international standards ratified by Ethiopia. The report drafting task was directly within the scope of work of training participants.

Theme: Rule of law

Ethiopia human rights, relevance, training

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

Lesson Learned:

Participants in Morocco unanimously underlined the relevance of the themes selected for the training sessions and the seminars and praised the quality of the teaching, as well as the trainers’ participatory and practical methodology. Content and form of the workshops were adapted to the socio-cultural specificities and took into account the limitations of the participants.

Theme: Rule of law

Morocco relevance, training

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