Starting in 2016, WFP embarked on a process of institutional reform to reorient the organization’s strategic objectives and programmatic and administrative mechanisms for cooperating partnerships in response to the Grand Bargain localization commitments, the shift towards country-level and multi-...
UNFPA and UNICEF have been implementing the Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): Accelerating Change since 2008. This Joint Programme addresses Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5.3, aiming to eliminate harmful practices that undermine gender equality by 2030....
In 2017, two major water-focused Multi-Donor Trust Funds, the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) and the Water Partnership Program (WPP), were integrated in creating the Global Water Security and Sanitation Partnership (GWSP), towards realizing its “Water-Writ Large Agenda”. The GWSP has been...
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...
The WFP's People Strategy, which was first approved in 2014, stands as the organization's "blueprint" for reinforcing, retaining and recruitment of its workforce. At the heart of this is the aim of creating a more people-centred WFP which focuses on the welfare and development of its employees with...
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...
In 2011, in consultation with donors, OCHA instituted an evaluation policy to conduct triennial global evaluations of country-based pooled funds. As such, a global evaluation of the Emergency Response Funds (ERFs) will be conducted in 2012, replacing individual ERF evaluations periodically...
The TDRP is financed by a $30.8 million multi donor trust fund (MDTF), to which there are seven different donor contributions, the largest of which is 72 percent contributed by the AfDB. The TDRP is a four-year program (2009-2013) with the following objectives: Provide technical support for the...
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 objectives of this mid-term evaluation were to assess the implementation progress...