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Project: Am I Equal in Kosovo Society?
Evaluation Date: July 2018
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

To ensure meaningful and effective assessment of project results, use ‘SMART’ target indicators (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound). Organizations should use comparisons of pre- and post-project surveys to determine how their projects’ specific activities and results have contributed towards the achievement of the projects’ outcomes.

Theme: Media

Kosovo analysis, assessment, methodology, survey, targets

Project: Empowerment of Women Citizens in Turkey
Evaluation Date: February 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Eighty per cent of the trainees completed the Training of Trainers course and were certified as trainers, but it must be noted that the only requirement for certification was the completion of the course. In other words, there was little quality control either at entry, or on completion of the course.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Turkey baseline, survey, training

Project: Democracy for Women’s Rights in Sindh, Pakistan
Evaluation Date: October 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Not much thought was given to the design of the media campaign element of the project at its start. In planning for this element of the project the grantee could have included a qualitative market research component, even as simple as a few focus groups, to help assess impact and revise messages and materials accordingly. This would have also allowed an assessment of the impact of the media campaign.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Pakistan media, research, survey

Project: Narrowing the Gender Gap in Flood Affected Areas of Pakistan
Evaluation Date: July 2014
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The monitoring and evaluation plan was admirably comprehensive as was the baseline survey. However, the impact survey only repeated a portion of the baseline questions which makes determination of impact difficult.

Theme: Women's empowerment

Pakistan data, impact, survey

Project: Promoting democratic and human rights values among Rwandan youth
Evaluation Date: February 2014
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

A baseline survey was conducted at the start of the project. It showed respondent’s level of agreement with a number of statements about human rights and democracy in Rwanda, but not their level of knowledge. The project would have benefited from a more qualitative approach in which respondents could explain the rationale for their views.

Theme: Youth engagement

Rwanda baseline, survey

Project: Promoting Good Governance among Tribal Inhabitants in Bangladesh (PROGGATI)
Evaluation Date: December 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project met its outputs however the extent of its impact is unclear. It did undertake a baseline in Year 1 that provided some descriptive but useful information on the targeted communities. However, this baseline was not repeated so there is no end-of-project data that it could be compared to.

Theme: Community activism

Bangladesh baseline, impact, survey

Project: Addressing Ghana’s Governance Deficits through Constitutional Reform
Evaluation Date: July 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The organization of a national public opinion survey – the only one which took place in Ghana related to the constitutional review – and the publication of its results derived played a significant role in bringing the voice of the wider public to the proceedings of the Constitutional Review Commission and the national debate on priorities for reform.

Theme: Interaction with government

Ghana constitution, public, survey

Project: Student Civic Action: Engaging and Empowering Emerging Leaders in Universities in Jordan
Evaluation Date: March 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project did a good baseline survey before its workshops and collected disaggregated data, but the follow up survey asked a different set of questions. Although the follow up survey indicated that youth were using their training, it did not allow for comparisons against the baseline data. This could have quantified the degree of change in these individuals.

Theme: Youth engagement

Jordan impact, metrics, survey

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

Lesson Learned:

The reliability and usefulness of this survey was questioned by several of those interviewed outside of this steering group. They felt the focus groups were not representative, the questions too generic to be useful, and that it was not adapted to the national context.

Theme: Rule of law

Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone research, survey

Project: Strengthening the Leadership of Women in Local Democracy – Gram Panchayats (Village Councils in India)
Evaluation Date: September 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The collection of baseline data from the elected women before they participated in the project’s capacity building activities progressed very slowly as implementing partners were unfamiliar with the methodology of the baseline survey. A second survey to determine the project’s outcome was not carried out before the end of the project.

Theme: Women's empowerment

India methodology, research, survey

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