The main objective of this assignment was to make recommendations to enhance the quality of evaluations by conducting a meta-evaluation of the quality of decentralized evaluation reports and terms of reference against the OECD/DAC quality principles and standards. A second objective was to provide...
Because I Am A Girl (BIAAG) is an international campaign by Plan International which aims to address gender discrimination around the world. In 2014, the BIAAG Campaign targets six major goals, namely: 1) Girls’ education at the centre of the global political agenda; 2) Girls’ successful transition...
Within a framework arrangement of two years, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland contracted Universalia to conduct the following tasks: i) meta-evaluations and syntheses of decentralized evaluation reports, which may constitute of appraisals (ex-ante evaluations), mid-term evaluations, end...
UN Women merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system, which focused exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment: the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW); the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women...
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 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 objective of the Evaluation of the Mision de Apoyo al Proceso de Paz in Colombia of the Organization of the North American states was to provide a summative and a formative evaluation of the MAPP/OEA since its inception, with a particular emphasis on its last 2010/2013 phase. The evaluation...
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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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...