October 2014
Mark Schacter, a Senior Associate of Universalia and President of Mark Schacter Consulting, has just written ‘(un)Complicated’, a paper that aims to demystify the basic concepts behind performance measurement so that it will become less intimidating, less of a chore, and more like someth...
September 2014
Universalia and the Washington-based International Development Institute (IDI) are pleased to announce their partnership in launching the ‘Doing Business in North America’ training program. This training program is composed of two modules focused on the U.S. and Canadian markets.
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August 2014
As part of the Learning Evaluation of the Disability Rights Fund (DRF), Elisabetta Micaro (team leader) and Sandra Nduwimfura (evaluation consultant) attended DRF’s annual Grantee Convening Meeting in Uganda in July 2014.
The meeting is an opportunity for the disability movement to analyze th...
The meeting is an opportunity for the disability movement to analyze th...
August 2014
Universalia recently completed the Real-Time Evaluation of UNICEF’s Humanitarian Response to the Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. This mandate is based on an assessment of the first four months of the response, based on field visits, interviews with key informants, discussions with community...
July 2014
Universalia and the Results for Development Institute (R4D) (r4d.org) in Washington are pleased to announce their partnership to evaluate the GPE program. The Global Partnership for Education was founded in 2002 under the name Education for All Fast Track Initiative and has gone through a number of...
July 2014
Dr. Syed Sajjadur Rahman, Universalia Senior Associate, has been invited to become a mentor in the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Mentoring Program of the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD) at the Islamic Development Bank.
As a mentor, he will provide overall g...
As a mentor, he will provide overall g...
July 2014
Yvan Conoir organizes and coordinates the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) Faculty of Political Science and Law Summer Schools each year: http://dandurand.uqam.ca/component/content/article/113-divers/1167-missi......
July 2014
The United Nations Peacebuilding Fund invited a Universalia team, comprised of Yvan Conoir and Patrick Zadi-Zadi, to assess the work of the “Peacebuilding Priority Plan in Cote d’Ivoire.” With the assistance of the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office and the local-level Uni...
June 2014
A Universalia team, comprised of Yvan Conoir, Brigitte Izabiriza and Marie-Laure Talbot, recently evaluated the progress made by the Rwanda Second Emergency Demobilisation and Reintegration Programme.
Since 1997, Rwanda demobilizes different categories of combatants: ex-armed groups (present in the...
Since 1997, Rwanda demobilizes different categories of combatants: ex-armed groups (present in the...
June 2014
On June 11, 2014, Gerry Cooney and Anette Wenderoth facilitated a session on gender responsive evaluations for the 150+ persons attending the World Bank's International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) at Carleton University, Ottawa Canada.
For more details on IPDET programs,...
For more details on IPDET programs,...