The overall purpose of the consultancy was to document and assess gender transformative approaches that have been applied within UNICEF health and nutrition programming in Africa. This has helped to document promising practices and identified elements of successful gender transformative programmes...
UN Women has commissioned this assignment to support an internal review of its work within the Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework (UBRAF) from 2014-2018.
2019 marks the five-year anniversary for the implementation of UBRAF, and UN Women wants to use this opportunity to reflect...
Universalia was contracted by the African Development Bank’s (AFDB) Independent Evaluation Department (IDEV) to conduct an evaluation of AWF entire portfolio since 2015, focusing on organizational and development effectiveness.
The African Water Facility (AWF) is an initiative of the African...
The WFP's People Strategy, which was first approved in 2014, stands as the organization's "blueprint" for reinforcing, retaining and recruitment of its workforce. At the heart of this is the aim of creating a more people-centred WFP which focuses on the welfare and development of its employees with...
Universalia was recently contracted by the International Development Research Center (IDRC) to conduct a final evaluation of the Safe and Inclusive Cities (SAIC) program. Financed jointly by IDRC and DfID, SAIC’s primary objective is to document the linkages between urban violence, poverty, and...
UNFPA’s Gender, Human Rights and Culture Branch (GHRCB) contracted Universalia Management Group to conduct an external, independent mid-term evaluation of UNFPA’s performance on its Organizational Goal 3 on Gender Equality (GE) and on mainstreaming gender across its programs in two phases. Phase...
Universalia was contracted to carry out the evaluation of UNIFEM’s partnerships with regional organizations. This is a corporate evaluation and is undertaken as part of the 2008 evaluation plan of the Evaluation Unit. Given the recent growth in partnerships with regional organizations, this...
CIVICUS is an international alliance of members and partners that works to strengthen citizen action and civil society throughout the world. It acts as an advocate for citizen participation as an essential component of governance and democracy worldwide. In this context, Universalia was asked to...
CPHA was the agency managing a multi-year CIDA project with the Southern African AIDS Trust (SAT). SAT mutated from a CIDA project to an autonomous NGO, funded by development agencies in Sweden and the Netherlands, as well as Canada. The new funding agencies wanted an evaluation of the HR capacity...
Universalia carried out an initial organizational review of AMREF jointly commissioned by CIDA & Sida. Universalia designed the overall approach for this study to include the development of an evaluation framework, to identify data sources, define questions, develop indicators and determine the...