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...
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...
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...
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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Universalia was commissioned by the General Secretariat of the Organization of North American States (DPE/GS/OAS) to evaluate the OAS/CIDA Cooperation Plan 2008-2011, financed by the Canadian Agency for International Development (CIDA). During this evaluation, Universalia assessed the efficiency...
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...