Universalia carried out an initial organizational review of AMREF jointly commissioned by CIDA & Sida. Universalia designed the overall approach for this study to include the development of an evaluation framework, to identify data sources, define questions, develop indicators and determine the...
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...
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...
CIDA has supported international volunteer sending efforts for more than 35 years. Currently, volunteer cooperation is funded by CIDA's Canadian Partnership Branch (CPB), and is managed by CPB's Agency Services and Canadian Relations Division. In 2004, CIDA launched the Volunteer Cooperation...
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...
Development of Monitoring, Auditing, and Evaluation Capacities for the G8 Global Partnership Program
Universalia assisted FAC to develop a strategy for monitoring GPP and helped it develop draft RMAFs and RBAFs for five program initiatives. The Global Partnership Program (GPP) is $1 billion, multi-year initiative. Its mission is to implement projects in Russia and other countries of the former...
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...
Using an organizational assessment model, Universalia undertook an assessment of ICHRDD and its programs including interviews with more than 60 people from 48 organizations in 25 countries. The review included two case studies on ICHRDD’s Women’s Program and Globalization and Human Rights Program....
The Canada-Poland Entrepreneurs Fund (CPEF) is a $32 million CIDA project designed to encourage the creation and development of the Polish private sector in northwest Poland through loans to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The Project provides up to $24 million resources for loan...