Universalia conducted an evaluation of AIESEC Canada, a student-run organization providing leadership opportunities and international exchanges for students and recent graduates. Key issues in this review were an examination of the ongoing relevance of this organization and potential duplications...
IGAD is a regional economic block based in the Horn of Africa. CIDA had been supporting IGAD for over 20 years, but had never evaluated the organization. Given’s CIDA’s interest in the Horn of Africa, it commissioned an institutional assessment of IGAD to assess the effectiveness of previous...
Universalia designed and delivered a five-day workshop on managing by results throughout the project cycle for 100 agency staff members (including senior and mid-management and operational staff). The assignment included: 1) a review of participant training needs; 2) extensive consultation with the...
Universalia assembled a multi-disciplinary team to undertake the mid-term evaluation of the Caribbean Development Bank’s premier poverty reduction programme, the Basic Needs Trust Fund (Fifth Replenishment). The assignment, which is presently in its final phases, has involved in-depth field...
The objective of these training programs was to support the development of Bank’s project managers’ skills to use and develop a RBM approach, to support the efforts of the Bank to direct its activities to the achievement of more successful results. The training program consisted of the following...
The main purpose of the evaluation was to provide IFAD with an independent review of the ILC’s progress in achieving its mission and objective. It was also intended to inform the Coalition Council about ILC’s institutional and programmatic progress, focusing on ILC’s relevance, effectiveness, and...
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...
Centraide is a Canadian NGO that works to combat poverty in Montreal by conducting an annual fundraising campaign that involves thousands of volunteers, and by financing a network of community agencies and projects. Universalia helped Centraide to develop logical frameworks to guide their programme...
The Cities Alliance is a global coalition of cities and their development partners committed to scaling up successful approaches to poverty reduction. The Alliance brings cities together in a direct dialogue with bilateral and multilateral agencies and financial institutions and those members...
The objective of this project was to assist the Madhya Pradesh State Electricity Board in developing a master plan (including generation, transmission, and distribution) to the year 2015, and formulate and implement appropriate tariff policies. The project was developed into six major components....