The Roadmap for Linguistic Duality 2008-2013: Acting for the Future (Roadmap) is a strategic and major horizontal initiative of the Government of Canada that engages fifteen federal institutions with a budget totaling more than a billion dollars over five years. The Official Languages Support...
Universalia was contracted by the Department of Justice Canada to lead the summative evaluation of the Accountability and Coordination Framework of the Roadmap for Canada’s Linguistic Duality 2008-2013 - Justice Canada Component. The Framework aims to strengthen horizontal coordination of the...
As part of the Country Program Action Plan (CPAP) development process, the UNICEF Philippines Country Office (PCO) contracted Universalia, following a competitive process, to conduct an evaluability assessment (EA) of the CPAP. The objectives of this assignment were i) to take stock of the...
Over the period 2009-2011, the Fund for Gender Equality, managed by UN Women, has provided grants to NGOs in developing countries to promote women’s economic and political empowerment. The evaluation focused on three programmes (one in Cameroon, one in the Philippines, and one in Egypt) that aim to...
Universalia carried out an evaluation of OCHA’s role in humanitarian civil-military coordination (CMCoord) for OCHA HQ. The objective of the evaluation was to determine OCHA’s effectiveness in carrying out the CMCoord function as well as best practices and lessons learned for forward looking...
The DRF is a pooled fund that awards small grants (5,000 to 20,000 $) to grassroots Disabled Persons’ Organizations’ (DPOs) in the global South and in the Ukraine. The grants allow DPOs to raise awareness and advocate for the rights of people with disabilities using the United Nations Convention of...
The multi-country evaluation of the HRBAP was carried out by an evaluation team of five consultants, including a Lead Evaluator, Senior Human Rights Expert and Humanitarian Expert. Universalia was asked to review the application of HRBAP at the UNICEF country office, regional office and...
Universalia was contracted to provide workshop preparation and complete facilitation services for the UN Women Haiti Country Programme Retreat. The UN Women Haiti office held a three-day workshop on Visioning and Team Building on February 22-24, 2011. The workshop brought together all 10 staff...
Universalia was contracted by UN Women to support the development of Performance Measurement Frameworks (PMFs) for two UN Women programmes. 1) The CIDA funded UN Women programme Action to Promote the Legal Empowerment of Women in the Context of HIV and AIDS integrates 20 individual community level...
Universalia was contracted to carry out an external final evaluation of the GAP. The World Bank Group’s (WBG) Gender Action Plan “Gender Equality as Smart Economics” (GAP) was launched in January 2007. The GAP’s main objective is to expand women’s economic opportunities by mainstreaming gender in...