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LESSON

Lesson Learned: Strengthening Democracy Through LGBT Political Participation in South Africa

Project design processes must carefully think through the outputs required for outcomes to be achieved and be realistic in what transformation training can bring in a relatively short period of time to a political party, which is not just a technical entity, but a political body. One training on LGBTQI+ issues for a political party is unlikely to trigger significant policy or legal changes in a two-year period.
Project Name
Strengthening Democracy Through LGBT Political Participation in South Africa
Project Partner
Triangle Project
Project Description
The project aims to strengthen South Africa's democracy through increasing equal participation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people and promoting understanding among political parties and the Independent Electoral Commission around the importance of diverse representation. This will be achieved through the training of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex leaders in civic engagement strategy and working with parties and the Commission to adopt policies and procedures to improve their representation, participation, voter registration and turn out.
Report
udf-17-750-saf_evaluation_report_final.pdf
Evaluation Date
August 2023
Theme
Rule of law
Country
South Africa
LESSON

Lesson Learned: Prévention de la violence durant la période électorale de 2010

The project would have benefitted from making use of knowledge gained during the training and research activities. This could have encouraged all actors to use the research and knowledge acquired as reference material in order to develop party practices at the Burundian national level. This could have reinforced declarations made by political party leaders before and after elections, and to give a sense of responsibility to grassroots communities with regard to the importance of their role when it comes to applying the acquired knowledge.
Project Name
Prévention de la violence durant la période électorale de 2010
Project Partner
Association of Catholic Lawyers of Burundi
Project Description
The aim of the project was to build on the peace process in Burundi and consolidate democratic principles through peaceful elections by encouraging the population in three heavily war-affected provinces to vote in a reflected and enlightened manner and by further encouraging these populations to express their needs and aspirations in order to be included in the electoral programmes of the political parties.
Report
UDF-BDI-08-222-ER-1.pdf
Evaluation Date
November 2011
Theme
Rule of law
Country
Burundi