CIDA has supported international volunteer sending efforts for more than 35 years. Currently, volunteer cooperation is funded by CIDA's Canadian Partnership Branch (CPB), and is managed by CPB's Agency Services and Canadian Relations Division. In 2004, CIDA launched the Volunteer Cooperation...
Universalia was mandated to carry out a series of both program and organizational assessments of PDAP, a six-member consortium representing over 300 Filipino NGO working in the areas of sustainable agriculture and rural enterprise, over a period of eight years. The assignments involved field...
The Evaluation of Poverty Reduction Strategies (PARSEP) project is supported by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the International Development Research Center (IDRC). It aims to support the national officers who are responsible of monitoring and evaluating the Poverty...
The purpose of the assignment was to assess needs, design, and establish an ongoing monitoring and evaluation system that would enable CCI to determine if it is achieving its program objectives and results; what unplanned results are being achieved; and further CCI’s understanding of how best to...
The purpose of this assessment was to review the current business processes, policies, procedures and roles governing the management of all loans from multilateral and bilateral agencies, and to design a new IT system to manage the process. The scope includes M&E and RBM, along with Grants and...
Universalia recently completed an organizational assessment of ADEA, a broad consortium which brings together Ministers of Education, 22 development agencies, numerous education specialists, and civil society organizations active in educational reform to discuss and reflect on the key educational...
At the request of the Dirección de Presupuestos (DIPRES) of the Government of Chile, the World Bank conducted a review of the government’s evaluation system, which has been in place since 1997. As part of this broader study, Universalia carried out a meta-evaluation of a small sample of the...
Universalia undertook a multi-year monitoring assignment of the CIDA South Asian Regional People and Policy Program, a multi-faceted program focused on strengthening the role of civil society organizations, enhancing women’s roles in local governance, democratization, and strengthening public...
The assignment was intended to initiate a pilot process for building the RBM capacity of managers in key public sector implementing agencies in two countries (the Philippines and Peoples’ Republic of China). The aim was to ensure that managers understood the RBM approach to performance measurement...
Development of Monitoring, Auditing, and Evaluation Capacities for the G8 Global Partnership Program
Universalia assisted FAC to develop a strategy for monitoring GPP and helped it develop draft RMAFs and RBAFs for five program initiatives. The Global Partnership Program (GPP) is $1 billion, multi-year initiative. Its mission is to implement projects in Russia and other countries of the former...