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Project: Helping Teenagers to Transform their Communities in Ukraine
Evaluation Date: September 2020
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Explore market costs for professional services and direct expenses for responsible yet effective and fair budgeting for project activities and personnel.

Theme: Youth engagement
Ukraine   budget, cost, expenses, expertise, finance, project design, services, staff
Project: Transparency and Public Accountability in Education in Brazil
Evaluation Date: June 2020
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

A project where approximately 90% of human resources are volunteers, entails risks of lack of motivation and commitment. This should be included in the project risk assessment and it must be defined as measures to mitigate these risks.

Theme: Interaction with government
Brazil   commitment, measure, motivation, project design, resources, risk, staff, volunteers
Project: Empowering Female and Youth Domestic Workers in Uganda
Evaluation Date: September 2020
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Employers are more likely to introduce contracts and treat Domestic Worker staff better when they feel they are part of the discussions, not when they feel the decision is being forced on them. Getting Domestic Workers and employers on the same page, though not always easy, is key.

Theme: Rule of law
Uganda   decision, domestic worker, employment, staff
Project: Enabling Women to Participate in Sustainable Water Management in Armenia
Evaluation Date: November 2021
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Without the team’s emergency management skills that have been developed throughout the decades of work at the national and regional levels as epidemiologists, toxicologists, and water and hygiene experts, as well as the donor’s flexibility, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Nagorno Karabakh the project would not have reached its objective and improved the daily lives of the target population. While the staff’s professional and results-oriented performance and UNDEF’s flexible approach allowed to not only deliver the intended outputs but also extend the project’s geographical and demographical scopes, it is generally important to consider various internal and external risk factors as part of a risk mitigation and emergency response strategy to ensure the full achievement of the project’s objective.

Theme: Women's empowerment, Interaction with government
Armenia   COVID-19, donor, environment, expertise, national, objective, outputs, pandemic, project management, regional, results, risk, scope, skills, staff, target, war
Project: Fostering Ethical Democracy and Advancing Micro Justice in India
Evaluation Date: September 2018
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

In all projects that involve challenging established power structures, staff members that are most visible in project implementation (‘frontline staff’) face a high risk of personal reprisals. It is essential for grantees to be aware of these risks and take the appropriate measures necessary to protect frontline staff, for example ensuring the backing of a larger organization or having senior management playing a frontline role in project implementation as well.

Theme: Rule of law
India   implementation, local knowledge, partnerships, risk, staff
Project: Civil Society Empowerment in Advocacy and Policy Development in Vietnam
Evaluation Date: June 2014
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

A number of the training graduates pointed out that the financial vulnerability of CSOs in Vietnam made it difficult for them to allow staff members to devote time during working hours to preparation for training course delivery.

Theme: Community activism
Viet Nam   capacity building, resources, staff
Project: Strengthening Citizenship and Consolidation of Democracy in Chad
Evaluation Date: February 2011
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

The project mobilised very well qualified staff to implement activities. However, a large number of these personnel worked on a volunteer basis and this had a detrimental impact on the quality of the output. The insufficient number of personnel available had also a negative impact on the effective monitoring of the project implementation.

Theme: Community activism
Chad   resources, staff, volunteers
Project: Strengthening Democratic Participation of Maya Communities in Rural Guatemala
Evaluation Date: June 2015
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

The majority of the project’s multidisciplinary expert team in Guatemala were local to Q´eqchi Maya. The integration of detailed local knowledge contributed to the project’s credibility and legitimacy in the eyes of beneficiaries and local counterparts.

UNDEF/Guatemala

Theme: Community activism
Guatemala   culture, indigenous, staff
Project: Enhancing the Capacity for Inclusive Local Governance through Synergies and Sustainable Linkages between Communities and Government in North Afghanistan
Evaluation Date: April 2013
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

A minority of as many as 25-30 per cent of the beneficiaries in the project in Afghanistan, were thought by project managers to be friends or relatives of those who nominated them, and had little interest in proceedings, being motivated by the travel expenses and food provided.

Theme: Community activism
Afghanistan   staff
Project: Enhancing the Capacity for Inclusive Local Governance through Synergies and Sustainable Linkages between Communities and Government in North Afghanistan
Evaluation Date: April 2013
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

The needs of female trainees would have been better-served had ACTED proved able to recruit at least a few female trainers in Afghanistan ; none was hired.

Theme: Community activism
Afghanistan   staff, training, women
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