Universalia conducted a combined summative and formative, utilization focused evaluation of the Government of Malawi-UNICEF Country Programme (2019-2023). The evaluation provided impartial and independent evidence to assist the Country Office and Malawi authorities and decision-makers to inform the...
The Malawi Country Strategic Plan (CSP) was approved in 2018 and represented an overall shift in WFP’s country strategy from direct implementation to capacity strengthening. This shift in approach sought to build on the Government of Malawi’s commitment to, and ownership of, its fight against...
Universalia assesses the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of UNFPA support to gender equality and women's
empowerment (GEWE) across development and humanitarian settings (including the COVID-19 pandemic) over three strategic periods.
The evaluation also assesses the extent...
empowerment (GEWE) across development and humanitarian settings (including the COVID-19 pandemic) over three strategic periods.
The evaluation also assesses the extent...
UN Women has commissioned this assignment to support an internal review of its work within the Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework (UBRAF) from 2014-2018.
2019 marks the five-year anniversary for the implementation of UBRAF, and UN Women wants to use this opportunity to reflect...
Universalia has been recruited to conduct an evaluation of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) agricultural biotechnology policy and advocacy grants portfolio.
The evaluation will assess changes in the enabling environment for biotechnology in Sub-Saharan Africa and the extent to which...
Over the past nine years, the BMGF has made significant investments in advocacy for African agricultural development without any formal, comprehensive evaluation to measure the effectiveness and impact of these investments. Universalia was contracted by the BMGF to conduct an evaluation of the...
A consortium led Universalia and including Itad and R4D was mandated by the World Bank to design and implement country-level evaluations of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) in 2017-2020, in line with the results & measurement component of the 2016-2020 GPE strategy. GPE is the...
UNAIDS and the Global Fund 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 coordination mechanisms, communication, sharing of...
The Corporate Evaluation of UN Women’s Contribution to United Nations System coordination on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (GEEW) was commissioned and managed by the Independent Evaluation Office of UN Women. The corporate evaluation aimed to assess the relevance, effectiveness 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...