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...
In 2005, Universalia conducted an independent assessment of the ADB’s MfDR Strategy, including a review of progress in implementing the Bank’s MfDR Agenda. Prior to that, Universalia designed and delivered intensive pilot training in RBM/MfDR under RETA 6096 designed to strengthen the capacity of...
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...
Universalia worked with Aga Khan Foundation’s $25 million Social Institutions Development Program (SIDP) to develop a monitoring and performance framework. SIDP is an 11-year program designed to improve the capacity of the citizen sector organizations and institutions to support sustainable human...
CCPP is a mechanism through which CIDA’s Canadian Partnership Branch has provided funding for partnership activities between Canadian and developing country education and training organizations since 1994. The goal of Phase II is to increase the capacity of developing country education and training...
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...
The objective of this assignment was to evaluate the performance and relevance of five Regional Health Institutes (Caribbean Epidemiology Center, Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute, Caribbean Health Research Council, Caribbean Regional Drug Testing Laboratory, and Caribbean Environmental Health...
The purpose of this review was to assess the on-going relevance and strategic orientation of Rights and Democracy (R&D) programming in the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The evaluation provided R&D with recommendations and conclusions that drew on past performance and experience, but were...
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...
From 2002 to 2005, Universalia worked with the Evaluation Unit of the African Development Bank to design results-based management and evaluation systems to improve the development effectiveness of the Bank. The steps included an initial institutional needs/readiness assessment, followed by design...