The objective of the Project was to assist the Chinese government to empower women in poor areas with large ethnic minority populations by (i) enhancing local women’s self-management and self-development capacity and entrepreneurship skills through capacity building and institutional strengthening...
Universalia was contracted by the Australia-Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction (AIFDR) to carry out organizational assessments of Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) and Sub-National Disaster Management Agencies (BPBDs) to inform AIFDR ’s new program and identify major...
The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) was established in 2005 as an informal coalition of organizations whose common goal is to strengthen – through tenure and market reforms – the rights of rural and indigenous communities to access forest and land resources in order to reduce poverty and...
The World Bank commissioned Universalia to carry-out this Independent External Evaluation of the DMF for Low Income Countries (LICs). The objectives of this evaluation were to 1) analyze the context within which DMF is operating and the implications for its overall performance; 2) evaluate results...
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...
Universalia was mandated by UNICEF to carry out an evaluation of the Child Protection Monitoring and Response System (CPMRS) project, which was supported by UNICEF Thailand from 2006-2012. The evaluation examined the relevance effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of project results and...
UNICEF’s establishment of a Global Evaluation Quality Assurance System to ensure that evaluations managed or commissioned by UNICEF meet high quality standards has its roots in the Global Evaluation Compact endorsed in 2009, which commits the Evaluation Office and the Regional Offices to...
Universalia completed a review of the portfolio of grants in support of gender equality and women’s leadership allocated by the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) between 2005-2012 to determine the type of gender equality outputs generated by its investments in this field and their contribution to the RF’...