LESSON
Lesson Learned: The Bottom-up Governance and Leadership Programme for Women in the Pacific
The majority of the funds were spent in Australia, on the grantee’s staff costs, on the set-up and maintenance of the e-platform, on the course and study tour. Partners did not receive sufficient resources to allow them to carry out in-country coordination and to deliver adequate support to trainees challenged by the content-heavy training materials. There was also a serious imbalance between the funds expended on the training component of the BGLP and the much more relevant and successful grassroots mini-project component.
Project Partner
Foundation for Development Cooperation
Project Description
The project aimed to increase women’s political representation and increase their familiarity with governance issues and build their leadership skills. The project undertook training through an e-platform across four countries in the Pacific to achieve these goals. A subsequent “BGLP governance and leadership contest‟ was intended to promote bottom-up governance initiatives by women in their local communities. Those women who presented successful proposals went were given training in participatory project management training (PPM) and taken on a study tour before receiving funding to undertake their mini-projects.
There was a mismatch in the project between the problem identified and the solutions proposed. Differences among the participating countries were not taken into account, and the method of training delivery was inappropriate.
Report
Evaluation Date
April 2011
Theme
Country