In 2019, the World Education Services (WES) Mariam Assefa Fund (MAF) began operating as the philanthropic and social impact arm of WES. MAF is a financially independent enterprise that started with US$30 million from WES. WES reached out to Universalia, one of their preferred services providers, to...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is currently undertaking the evaluations of six grants/investments made under the BMGF nutrition advocacy portfolio in order to understand their role, as well as the role of other organizations (either funded or not funded by Gates) in achieving...
Universalia has been contracted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to conduct a mid-term evaluation of Phase V of the Pacific Financial Technical Assistance Center (PFTAC).
The principal objectives of the program are: (i) strengthening the resilience of Pacific economic and public...
Universalia conducted a summative evaluation of the MaterialWise initiative and a formative evaluation of MaterialWise’s overall trajectory beyond the pilot.
The utilization-focussed evaluation was organised around five dimensions of OECD-DAC criteria, assessing the relevance, efficiency,...
The utilization-focussed evaluation was organised around five dimensions of OECD-DAC criteria, assessing the relevance, efficiency,...
C&A Foundation is a corporate foundation of the fashion and apparel retailer C&A. The foundation developed a new vision and mission in 2011, crafting a fashion industry focused strategy in 2013. C&A Foudation undertook an overall effectiveness evaluation (OEE) (2014/15-2019/2020) “to...
The purpose of this project was to examine the International Aid Transparency Initiative’s (IATI) institutional arrangements within the context of its past and future goals; and to provide support to the IATI Working Group on Institutional Arrangement’s (Working Group) development of...
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...
As the International Land and Forest Tenure Facility (the ‘Tenure Facility’ or ‘TF’) moved from its incubation period through to its establishment phase, the TF and the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) commissioned Universalia to conduct this evaluation, assessing both programmatic and...
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 Nations...
With the objective to track the implementation of its annual programmes and inform the Coalition on the factors that affect its performance, the Rights and Resources Initiatives (RRI) commissioned Universalia to independently monitor the execution of its most recent programming strategies and...