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Project: Democracy Academy for Young Adults in El Salvador
Evaluation Date: March 2023
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

The adoption of a coordination strategy between the project and other relevant actors (mostly from the Academic arena) would have been key in order to optimize resources and avoid duplication, while strengthening coordination. It is therefore important that UNDEF continues to require such strategies for all its projects.

Theme: Youth engagement, Interaction with government
El Salvador   academia, approach, audience, Coordinate, effective, efficiency, efficient, partners, plan, planning, project design, resources, strategy, target
Project: Citizens: empowering local communities, improving local governance
Evaluation Date: March 2023
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Given the numerous challenges of the Palestinian context, it is increasingly relevant to engage Palestinian youth in order to increase their individual resilience and help them cope with the stress they face. Youth in Gaza face double exclusion compared to their peers in the West Bank as a result of settlements and internal conflict, which makes engaging them more difficult and therefore requires additional funding, effort, and monitoring to achieve meaningful change and results.

Theme: Youth engagement, Interaction with government
Palestine   approach, beneficiaries, complex, Coordinate, effective, engagement, goals, impact, include, inclusion, inclusive, motivate, motivation, participation, plan, planning, project design, results, target, youth
Project: Citizens: empowering local communities, improving local governance
Evaluation Date: March 2023
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

This project has demonstrated that even in the complex and difficult context of Palestine, setting realistic objectives in terms of the number of beneficiaries and communities of intervention, and adopting a pragmatic approach that includes relevant and useful activities such as training and community services, can engage different target groups, regardless of their political affiliations and sensitivities, and generate impact at both the individual and community levels.

Theme: Youth engagement, Interaction with government
Palestine   approach, beneficiaries, challenge, community, Coordinate, effective, engagement, goals, impact, plan, planning, project design, results, services, target, training, utility
Project: Creating an Inclusive Policy and Legal System, Protecting Elderly People’s Fundamental Rights in Indonesia
Evaluation Date: January 2023
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

The elderly project should be a source of learning for both UNDEF and the grantee organization LBH Apik, since both parties have not dealt exclusively with elderly before. In a short project such as this (especially with an unexpected challenge like the pandemic), the Donor and Implementing Agency should conduct more frequently periodical pause and reflection to assess direction, progress, challenges, and lessons learnt in order to be able to manage the project adaptively. Ideally this is done every quarter. Sessions for the purpose of learning need to be intentionally planned from the outset. It is unclear whether programmatic learning is being performed from the bottom to the top, and vice versa. It is useful however to cohesively provide a picture on the differences and similarities, and what worked and what did not work.

Theme: Electoral Processes, Rule of law
Indonesia   adapt, adjust, analysis, Coordinate, decision making, elder, elderly, goals, issue, learn, lesson, measure, monitoring, plan, planning, problem, project design, project management, quality control, results, target
Project: Strengthening Media to Promote Inclusive Democracy in Mali
Evaluation Date: January 2023
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Sensitivity to local languages should be an essential part of project design and delivery in countries where such diversity exists (as was the case with this project in the use of Bambara for local radio broadcasting to maximise impact for non-French speaking listeners), though this may bring additional challenges in terms of measuring and evaluating the success of an intervention.

Theme: Media
Mali   audience, beneficiaries, evaluate, grassroots, impact, implementation, inclusion, journalism, language, measure, media, outreach, project design, radio, reach, results, target
Project: Jeunesse et participation électorale au Burkina Faso
Evaluation Date: May 2022
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Grantees need to be disciplined in their monitoring and reporting, making best use of the comprehensive guidance available on the UNDEF website. Grantees should feel free to suggest to UNDEF alternative baselines, target indicators and means of verification if data collection against initially planned Results Frameworks proves more difficult than expected or impossible.

Theme: Women's empowerment
Burkina Faso   baseline, data, impact, indicator, measure, monitor, plan, project design, project management, report, results, target
Project: Jeunesse et participation électorale au Burkina Faso
Evaluation Date: May 2022
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Sensitivity to local languages should be an essential part of project design and delivery in countries where such diversity exists, though this may bring additional challenges in terms of measuring and evaluating the success of an intervention.

Theme: Women's empowerment
Burkina Faso   analysis, beneficiaries, data, evaluate, language, measure, monitor, project design, target
Project: Helping Teenagers to Transform their Communities in Ukraine
Evaluation Date: September 2020
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Plan early to develop and implement a strategic communication campaign to tell a multi-dimensional transmedia narrative story about their project through multiple channels that are most used by direct beneficiaries and target audiences. Consider hiring an experienced media communication specialist to help with regional and national media coverage efforts beyond simple announcements.

Theme: Youth engagement
Ukraine   audience, beneficiaries, campaign, communication, expertise, implement, media, national, plan, project design, regional, specialist, strategy, target
Project: Helping Teenagers to Transform their Communities in Ukraine
Evaluation Date: September 2020
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Evaluate the overall environment to identify and focus on the most vulnerable and underserved direct beneficiaries who live in small, rural areas.

Theme: Youth engagement
Ukraine   beneficiaries, marginalized, rural, target, underserved, vulnerable
Project: Transparency and Public Accountability in Education in Brazil
Evaluation Date: June 2020
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

For an objective assessment of the project impact, the results frameworks must contain baseline, indicators and target that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound (SMART). Use a Monitoring work-plan to determine how the project’s specific activities and results are contributing to the achievement of the project’s outcomes and final impact.

Theme: Interaction with government
Brazil   baseline, impact, indicator, measure, monitoring, objective, plan, relevant, results, results framework, SMART, target
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