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 African Virtual University (AVU) is an e-learning body established to increase access to tertiary level education through the application of information and communications technologies. This 2004 assignment utilised Institutional and Organisational Assessment techniques to conduct a formative...
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...
This evaluation assessed the development effectiveness of CDB’s response to the human resource development needs of the Borrowing Member Countries (BMC), from the perspective of CDB’s mission, especially related to poverty reduction. More specifically, the evaluation reviewed and to analyzed eight...
The consultancy designed and implemented a performance measurement system to track inputs, outputs, outcomes, and impacts of the Program to Support Implementation (PAI) and its relation to PRS indicators. The system included a software and database that was installed in the municipalities and line...
As part of a larger multi-year monitoring assignment, Universalia undertook organizational assessment of SPO, a Pakistani NGO engaged in strengthening civil society organizations role in democratization and policy development. Subsequent monitoring involved ongoing performance measurement,...
UNCDF is a multilateral organization (US$25M) that provides grants in Least Developed Countries in two areas of programming: local governance and microfinance. The primary objective of the IIA was to assess whether UNCDF was performing as an effective, efficient, and sustainable organization that...
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...
This $20 million CIDA project was designed to support the Russian Federation to implement democratic reforms and to make a successful transition to a market economy. A key objective of the program was to assist Russia in developing the public sector skills needed to manage the complexities of...
UniCon, a joint venture of Universalia and the Conference Board of Canada, monitored three projects in the good governance portfolio and advisory support on monitoring results at the program level for both the governance portfolio and the Viet Nam program overall. At the project level, UniCon...