effectiveness

Evaluation Date

December 2024

Theme

Country

Strengthening Gender-Responsive Local Government in Nepal

LESSON

Supporting government institutions in becoming gender responsive and inclusive requires substantial efforts in institutional capacity building through sensitization, training and equipping government officials with tools and skills to carry out gender responsive planning and governance. In the present project, while the project was successful in sensitizing local government officials, focused institutional capacity building could have contributed to a more impactful and sustainable change.

Project Name

Project Partner

South Asia Partnership Nepal

Project Description

Report

Evaluation Date

December 2024

Theme

Country

Strengthening Gender-Responsive Local Government in Nepal

LESSON

Women’s participation in political change processes not only enhances gender equality, but it also makes a positive contribution to local development outcomes. The present project experience clearly demonstrates the transformative impact of women’s inclusion in local development in the shape of a number of local needs-based infrastructure schemes undertaken by the Women Musahar Empowerment Forums in their Municipalities.

Project Name

Project Partner

South Asia Partnership Nepal

Project Description

Report

Evaluation Date

December 2024

Theme

Country

Strengthening Gender-Responsive Local Government in Nepal

LESSON

The project experience clearly indicates that in order to be impactful, the project design should involve multidimensional approaches that address both the practical and structural challenges, ranging from individual capacity gaps to overall gender discrimination and institutionalized exclusion, which constrain women’s voice, decision-making and leadership. In the present case, the Implementing Partner was successful in maintaining a dual focus on promoting women’s political participation through building women’s capacity and awareness of their rights and connecting them to key decision-making processes on the one hand and engaging with the Musahar community, particularly men, to address gender discrimination through sensitization sessions.

Project Name

Project Partner

South Asia Partnership Nepal

Project Description

Report

Evaluation Date

December 2024

Theme

Country

Enhancing Women’s Political Participation in Eswatini

LESSON

The project experience underscored the importance of establishing clear and consistent beneficiary selection criteria in project activities from the outset. In this case, project stakeholders were responsible for selecting beneficiaries at the community level without clear guidance on the selection criteria from the grantee. As a result, some beneficiaries were included without the necessary qualifications, leading to difficulties in actively participating in trainings and effectively fulfilling their roles in the project.

Project Name

Project Partner

Women and Law in Southern Africa - Eswatini

Project Description

The project seeks to enhance the gender responsiveness of policies and practices in the electoral process in Eswatini by assisting stakeholders to develop gender responsive guidelines and educating citizens on the importance of women’s political participation, while empowering the female electorate with leadership skills, campaign and mobilization strategies. The project seeks to impart a long-term effect by enabling community-based paralegals to conduct gender equality sensitization talks at community level. Project activities will incorporate actions in response to the Covid-19 crisis, as it impacts women, including gender-based violence as well as social and economic pressures.

Report

udf-18-793-swa_evaluation_report.pdf

Evaluation Date

August 2024

Theme

Electoral Processes

Enhancing Women’s Political Participation in Eswatini

Country

Swaziland

LESSON

To ensure project sustainability and stakeholder ownership, it is vital to foster a comprehensive understanding of project outcomes among all stakeholders and to align project strategies with their mandates and constraints. In this project, the lack of ownership by the Electoral Boundaries Commission resulted in the Gender Responsive Electoral Guidelines not being adopted.

Project Name

Project Partner

Women and Law in Southern Africa - Eswatini

Project Description

Report

udf-18-793-swa_evaluation_report.pdf

Evaluation Date

August 2024

Theme

Strengthening Grassroots Women’s Groups to Promote and Protect Civic Space in Uganda

Electoral Processes

Country

Swaziland

LESSON

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.

Project Name

Project Partner

All in One Womens Association

Project Description

The project goal is to empower 6,000 women by raising awareness of their gender specific rights, promoting women’s political participation, and addressing all forms of injustices that affect women’s wellbeing; strengthen the capacity of 100 unregistered women’s groups to become registered under the NGOs Act 2016; and support 100 registered women’s groups in advocating, promoting and protecting civic space in Uganda. Project activities will incorporate actions in response to the Covid-19 crisis, as it impacts women, including gender-based violence as well as social and economic pressures.

Report

Evaluation-Report-UDF-19-845-UGA_final.pdf

Evaluation Date

July 2023

Theme

Promoting Gender-Sensitive Personal Status Laws in Lebanon

Country

Uganda

LESSON

There are important elements that influence the effectiveness of the implementation of an advocacy project other than the technical and financial capacity of the funded organisation. They include:
- The clarity of the organisation's internal strategy and the consistency of its positioning regarding the project’s objective.
- The credibility of the organisation and its members among CSOs and drivers of change relevant to the intervention.
- The social capital of the organization, which enables it to mobilize key stakeholders and allies in the field.
- The capacity of the organisation to analyse the political context, manage risks, and adapt activities to the situation.

Project Name

Project Partner

KAFA (Enough) Violence and Exploitation

Project Description

This project aims to strengthen advocacy efforts towards a gender-sensitive civil personal status law in Lebanon. It will build capacity in civil society; create a coalition of a range of actors; engage the media; educate and inform the public; and increase pressure on political parties to take action on the draft law currently being reviewed by a committee in parliament. It will build a strong foundation for a well-informed, consistent national campaign to change the current law, which threatens democracy and human rights, in particular the rights of women, children, and marginalized groups, as well as increasing political pressure on lawmakers. Project activities will also incorporate actions in response to the Covid-19 crisis, as it impacts women, including gender-based violence.

Report

UDF-18-805-LEB-Final.pdf

Evaluation Date

September 2022

Theme