March 2017
Universalia was recently contracted by the International Development Research Center (IDRC) to conduct a final evaluation of the Safe and Inclusive Cities (SAIC) program. Financed jointly by IDRC and DfID, SAIC’s primary objective is to document the linkages between urban violence, poverty, an...
February 2017
Universalia has been contracted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to lead the review of the work of the BMGF’s Multilateral Partnership Team (MLP), and in particular, of its management of the foundation’s relationship with the World Health Organisation (WHO), and the United...
February 2017
The objective of this short-term assignment (November 2016 - March 2017) is to prepare the final report of the evaluation of the SSHRC’s Research-Based Knowledge Cluster sub-program. The primary focus of the evaluation is on SSHRC’s Impact Awards. The evaluation will address five core ev...
February 2017
Universalia has won a contract involving UNAIDS and the Global Fund, who have established a continuous working relationship since 2002. The Cooperation Agreement signed in 2014 replaced the previous MoUs and strengthened the cooperation framework between the Parties, especially in terms of coordinat...
November 2016
The goals of the project are to prepare and link out-of-school and unemployed youth to livelihood opportunities in the Iraqi economy and to enable young people to increase their leadership capacity through civic engagement and community asset building (CAB) activities. The aim of this consultancy, l...
November 2016
Universalia has won a contract to develop the diagnostic tools for evaluating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is an exciting piece of work because it will drive the way agencies and countries in particular monitor and evaluate their progress towards achieving SDGs, So Universalia is i...
November 2016
Papers in Political Economy / Revue Interventions Économiques, a peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journal recently published its 56th issue: Développement et inclusion. Le grand chantier des inégalités, de la pauvreté. The issue, dedicated to current debates i...
November 2016
Dr. Eric Abitbol, Senior Consultant and Practice Leader for Environment, Security and Conflict Transformation at the Universalia Management Group, recently returned from the 2016 Conference of the American Evaluation Association, on the theme of “Evaluation + Design”. In this article, he...
October 2016
Universalia is pleased to announce that it has won two new projects with UN agencies within the gender equality portfolio. For the next four months, our team will conduct the Meta-assessment of Gender Integration in the World Food Programme’s Evaluations completed in 2016. This process aims to...
September 2016
Universalia Senior Consultant Dr. Eric Abitbol was in Washington, DC on September 12, 2016 for the launch of the graduate practicum report on environmental peacebuilding. Universalia supported the students in undertaking an environmental peacebuilding assessment of a cooperative Israeli-Palestinian...