The Water and Sanitation Program is an international partnership which aims to provide increased access to improved water and sanitation services for poor people living in rural and urban areas across the world. The overall purpose of this evaluation was to provide an independent evaluation of the...
Universalia is assisting in the development of an electronic tool to collect performance data from UN country teams and other sources and aggregate to the UN-system level, to enable reporting on progress on the Ten Minimum Standards established by UN Cares, the UN workplace programme on HIV/AIDS....
The COMPASS program of Simcoe country links schools with health and community service providers to better serve children in need. The objective of this assignment was to evaluate the performance of the COMPASS program and provide improvement recommendations. The COMPASS program included both the...
Universalia was contracted to carry out the evaluation of UNIFEM’s partnerships with regional organizations. This is a corporate evaluation and is undertaken as part of the 2008 evaluation plan of the Evaluation Unit. Given the recent growth in partnerships with regional organizations, this...
The objective of this project was to develop improved capacity within the Ministry and the Justice IT Cluster to manage leases for IT assets (approximately 40,000-leased assets) from lease agreement to end-of-lease returns, purchases, or extensions through a) improved processes and b) the creation...
Universalia has been responsible for managing a five-year $12.5 million Government Advisory and Exchange Program (GAEP) designed to provide Russian public and private sector institutions, agencies and organizations with fast and flexible access to Canadian expertise and experience in support of the...
IDRC’s Evaluation Unit (EU) is conducting a strategic evaluation to investigate the Centre’s contributions to the development of capacities of those with whom the Centre works. The evaluation aims to provide IDRC’s own staff and managers with an intellectual framework and a useful common language...
This recent combined outcome/ impact and process evaluation of the Commonwealth’s premier instrument for development cooperation was commenced in early 2007. Universalia has been asked to asses the efficiency and effectiveness of the CFTC. As well, we have been asked to asses the relative degree of...
In designing the Nigeria AIDS Responsive FUND (NARF), CIDA consulted with key stakeholders to identify gaps within the current national response to HIV/AIDS programming. Two areas were identified: the achievement of gender and respect for human rights HIV/AIDS programming. CIDA launched the NARF in...
The CEDAW South-East Asia Programme (CEDAW SEAP) is a programme of UNIFEM, supported by CIDA. The seven participating countries are Cambodia, Indonesia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), the Philippines, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam. Universalia conducted the final independent...