Water.org launched the New Ventures Fund NVF in 2011 as a philanthropic pool of capital to search for and launch the next round of big ideas to address the global water and sanitation crisis directly affecting people and communities. Commissioned by the C&A Foundation, Universalia conducted an...
Over the past nine years, the BMGF has made significant investments in advocacy for African agricultural development without any formal, comprehensive evaluation to measure the effectiveness and impact of these investments. Universalia was contracted by the BMGF to conduct an evaluation of the...
A consortium led Universalia and including Itad and R4D was mandated by the World Bank to design and implement country-level evaluations of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) in 2017-2020, in line with the results & measurement component of the 2016-2020 GPE strategy. GPE is the...
UNAIDS and the Global Fund have established a continuous working relationship since 2002. The Cooperation Agreement signed in 2014 replaced the previous MoUs and strengthened the cooperation framework between the Parties, especially in terms of coordination mechanisms, communication, sharing of...
In 2011, in consultation with donors, OCHA instituted an evaluation policy to conduct triennial global evaluations of country-based pooled funds. As such, a global evaluation of the Emergency Response Funds (ERFs) will be conducted in 2012, replacing individual ERF evaluations periodically...
The TDRP is financed by a $30.8 million multi donor trust fund (MDTF), to which there are seven different donor contributions, the largest of which is 72 percent contributed by the AfDB. The TDRP is a four-year program (2009-2013) with the following objectives: Provide technical support for the...
In 2007, UNFPA and UNICEF launched a joint programme entitled “Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C): Accelerating Change” with the objective of contributing to a forty per cent reduction of the practice among girls aged 0–15 years, with at least one country declared free of FGM/C by 2012.
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The water and sanitation program is an international partnership which aims to provide increased access to improved water and sanitation services for poor people living in rural and urban areas across the world. The objectives of this mid-term evaluation were to assess the implementation progress...
Universalia has been contracted by the MasterCard Foundation to conduct the mid-term review of the YouthSave Initiative, a landmark global study on sustainable delivery of savings services to youth in four countries across three continents (Africa; Asia and Latin North America). The aim of the mid-...
The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) commissioned Universalia Management Group to conduct an external, independent mid-term evaluation of CGAP’s performance covering the period of July 2008 through June 30, 2011. The overarching objectives of the mid-term evaluation were (1) to assess...