In partnership with The Governance Network of Ottawa, Canada, a forward-looking organizational performance review of the 22 ministries of the Government of Guyana was conducted that featured the system-wide usage of Universalia’s Institutional and Organizational Assessment methodologies and other...
The STD/HIV Control project in Kenya is an initiative of the University of Manitoba in collaboration with the University of Nairobi, funded by CIDA. The project believes that focused interventions can have a considerable impact on the transmission of HIV/AIDS in the population. The evaluation...
Universalia was asked to carry out an independent assessment of PARTNERS, a non-profit organization that enables poor rural communities in developing nations to achieve sustainable livelihoods. The objectives of the assessment were to: 1) provide reliable findings, and practical recommendations for...
The West African Capital Market Development Project promotes regional integration, both in terms of infrastructure (by financing regional infrastructure projects) and financial markets, across the eight WEAMU countries. It: (1) contribute to the development of the capital market in the eight...
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...
Universalia assisted UNIFEM in reviewing the strengths and weaknesses of its corporate performance monitoring and reporting systems and in developing a performance management framework that it could use to monitor, assess and report on its performance at the project, program and national and...
Universalia led a team of evaluation specialists to assess World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Australian Government Overseas Aid Program (AusAID) projects in the largest global coral reef program based in Indonesia. This four-month review involved institutional assessment, community...
CIDA’s cooperation program with Haiti is one of the longest standing and most important in the Americas. In this context, CIDA’s Performance and Knowledge Management Branch and the Haiti, Cuba & Dominican Republic Program Division agreed to carry out an exhaustive evaluation of CIDA’s co-...
Universalia was responsible for evaluating some IUCN Regional and National Offices in West Africa. It also had to elaborate a capacity-building plan for the offices. The evaluation aimed to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the regional office and of its six national offices, this in the...
The CDB-funded program provides residents, students, artists and scholars with access to mentors, counterparts and possible collaborators, while facilitating research relevant to CDB countries, and stimulates intellectual, creative and artistic activity. Universalia was contracted to assess the...