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Lesson Learned: Promoting Gender-Sensitive Personal Status Laws in Lebanon

External coherence and synergy between the organisation’s different projects/interventions require a minimum of formal and systematic coordination such as the collaboration that took place with a feminist platform in the case of this project.
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.
Evaluation Date
September 2022
Country
LESSON

Lesson Learned: Promoting Gender-Sensitive Personal Status Laws in Lebanon

Advocacy projects in highly complex contexts require rigorous monitoring to (i) strengthen coalitions and ties despite changes to the positions of stakeholders and changing power dynamics; and to (ii) capture and adapt to the different levels of changes that could occur.
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.
Evaluation Date
September 2022
Country
LESSON

Lesson Learned: Jeunesse et participation électorale au Burkina Faso

When supporting electoral processes there is clear value in working “upstream” to cover, and connect, key aspects of the full electoral cycle (e.g. registration, awareness raising, monitoring, conflict prevention and resolution) before the election event itself. Where possible, this can also include linkages with initiatives promoting access to information and freedom of speech – i.e. ensuring that electoral choices are as well informed as possible and contribute to community dialogue and improving social cohesion. A new civil society platform for the Sahel, the Coalition citoyenne pour le Sahel, appears to be a promising forum just such interaction.
Project Partner
Association Jeunesse Espoir d’Afrique
Project Description
Le projet vise à renforcer davantage la mobilisation sociale et l'engagement de la jeunesse dans les processus électoraux en cours au Burkina en vue des élections couplées législatives et présidentielle de 2020. Il s’agira au cours du projet de faire le monitoring de l’enrôlement biométrique des électeurs, de mener des actions de préservation de la cohésion sociale pour un processus électoral apaisé. Il est également prévu la prévention des conflits électoraux par la réalisation du monitoring de la violence.
Evaluation Date
May 2022
Country
LESSON

Lesson Learned: Jeunesse et participation électorale au Burkina Faso

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.
Project Partner
Association Jeunesse Espoir d’Afrique
Project Description
Le projet vise à renforcer davantage la mobilisation sociale et l'engagement de la jeunesse dans les processus électoraux en cours au Burkina en vue des élections couplées législatives et présidentielle de 2020. Il s’agira au cours du projet de faire le monitoring de l’enrôlement biométrique des électeurs, de mener des actions de préservation de la cohésion sociale pour un processus électoral apaisé. Il est également prévu la prévention des conflits électoraux par la réalisation du monitoring de la violence.
Evaluation Date
May 2022
Country
LESSON

Lesson Learned: Jeunesse et participation électorale au Burkina Faso

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.
Project Partner
Association Jeunesse Espoir d’Afrique
Project Description
Le projet vise à renforcer davantage la mobilisation sociale et l'engagement de la jeunesse dans les processus électoraux en cours au Burkina en vue des élections couplées législatives et présidentielle de 2020. Il s’agira au cours du projet de faire le monitoring de l’enrôlement biométrique des électeurs, de mener des actions de préservation de la cohésion sociale pour un processus électoral apaisé. Il est également prévu la prévention des conflits électoraux par la réalisation du monitoring de la violence.
Evaluation Date
May 2022
Country
LESSON

Lesson Learned: Advancing Gender Justice with Community Broadcasters in Kyrgyzstan

Foreign funding is a matter of controversy and concern in Kyrgyzstan, especially as it relates to media engagement. UNDEF’s support proved valuable as a neutral, credible, and legitimate source of funding. It allowed for activists and journalists from very different regions, political views, social backgrounds to meet and work together, without prejudice, and achieve results from productive and meaningful collaborations.
Project Partner
Community Mass Media Association
Project Description
This project aims to strengthen the transformative role of community media (community radio and community multimedia centers) in Kyrgyzstan to reduce gender-based violence (GBV) and to promote positive role models for women in their respective communities. The project will cover all regions in Kyrgyzstan and work with key stakeholders, including journalists, women activists, rural women as well local government officials through three integrated outcomes focused on stakeholder capacity building, public awareness raising, and support for dialogues.
Evaluation Date
April 2022
Country
LESSON

Lesson Learned: Advancing Gender Justice with Community Broadcasters in Kyrgyzstan

Community media is key in Kyrgyzstan, given the geographic challenges of rural communities in remote and mountainous locations, where regional news do not reach the country as a whole, and vice versa. Alternative channels of access to information complement national and regional information. It is thus key in advancing gender justice through gender-sensitive information and conscious opposition to gender stereotypes.
Project Partner
Community Mass Media Association
Project Description
This project aims to strengthen the transformative role of community media (community radio and community multimedia centers) in Kyrgyzstan to reduce gender-based violence (GBV) and to promote positive role models for women in their respective communities. The project will cover all regions in Kyrgyzstan and work with key stakeholders, including journalists, women activists, rural women as well local government officials through three integrated outcomes focused on stakeholder capacity building, public awareness raising, and support for dialogues.
Evaluation Date
April 2022
Country
LESSON

Lesson Learned: Advancing Gender Justice with Community Broadcasters in Kyrgyzstan

Challenges on gender in Kyrgyzstan still consist of polarized public opinion, declining women's participation in the political system, radicalization and religious extremism, media messaging on negative stereotypes. There is demand for high-quality media programming that promotes more positive role models for women in Kyrgyz society.
Project Partner
Community Mass Media Association
Project Description
This project aims to strengthen the transformative role of community media (community radio and community multimedia centers) in Kyrgyzstan to reduce gender-based violence (GBV) and to promote positive role models for women in their respective communities. The project will cover all regions in Kyrgyzstan and work with key stakeholders, including journalists, women activists, rural women as well local government officials through three integrated outcomes focused on stakeholder capacity building, public awareness raising, and support for dialogues.
Evaluation Date
April 2022
Country
LESSON

Lesson Learned: Improving Maya Women's Access to Justice in Rural Guatemala

There is a strong demand for legal support services, which only increases by offering this service. Projects must anticipate this growing demand and establish the mechanism to respond while also strengthening interinstitutional efforts to continuously provide these services.
Project Partner
Women's Justice Initiative
Project Description
This project seeks to improve access to justice for some 2,900 indigenous women living in rural areas of Tecpan, Guatemala through free legal support, accompaniment of survivors, and strengthening local governance and municipal response to violence against women and girls. In addition, the project aims to increase the capacities of 175 key public actors including community leaders, service providers, and police at the local, municipal, and departmental level to provide quality services to indigenous survivors and promote human rights.
Evaluation Date
March 2022
Country
LESSON

Lesson Learned: Improving Maya Women's Access to Justice in Rural Guatemala

Community advocates have the potential to be a powerful support network for supporting community awareness, navigating victims to justice services, and play a role in restorative justice processes as a survivor rights group. To optimize this potential, community advocates need institutional backing, continual skills training, linkages to institutional networks, and community recognition.
Project Partner
Women's Justice Initiative
Project Description
This project seeks to improve access to justice for some 2,900 indigenous women living in rural areas of Tecpan, Guatemala through free legal support, accompaniment of survivors, and strengthening local governance and municipal response to violence against women and girls. In addition, the project aims to increase the capacities of 175 key public actors including community leaders, service providers, and police at the local, municipal, and departmental level to provide quality services to indigenous survivors and promote human rights.
Evaluation Date
March 2022
Country