As the Geneva Dialogue on Environment, Climate, Conflict, and Peace (ECCP) completed its third year of work, ECCP sought to carry out a stock-taking of the community’s objectives, accomplishments, and significance for its members. Universalia’s Amanda Woomer (Consultant) accompanied the Geneva...
In line with its global strategic shift, in 2017, WFP began transitioning from project-based planning to country strategy planning to consolidate its portfolio and achieve a more integrated and coherent approach across interventions through the development of the Jan 2018 – Jun 2019 Transitional...
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...
The GCF was established by 194 governments in 2010 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to contribute to the global response to climate change. The GCF’s mandate is to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries, and to help vulnerable...
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The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) is an international organization that works as a solutions broker to catalyze action and support for adaptation solutions, from the international to the local, in partnership with the public and private sector, to ensure learning and working together for a...
The CDB’s Office of Independent Evaluation commissioned Universalia to conduct a Review of the CDB’s 2017 Education and Training Policy and Strategy (ETPS). The Review aimed to assess past performance and draw lessons and recommendations from CDB’s work in the education and training sector from...
BridgeNorth is a survivor-led charitable organization, started in 2014 with the goal of seeing an end to sex trafficking and sexual exploitation in Canada. BridgeNorth’s mission is to restore the inherent dignity of sexually exploited women and girls by meeting their physical, mental, emotional,...
The overall purpose of the consultancy was to document and assess gender transformative approaches that have been applied within UNICEF health and nutrition programming in Africa. This has helped to document promising practices and identified elements of successful gender transformative programmes...
The IASC Gender Standby Capacity Project (GenCap), an interagency initiative created in 2007, seeks to facilitate and strengthen capacity and leadership of humanitarians to undertake and promote gender equality programming to ensure the distinct needs of women, girls, boys and men of all ages are...
In 2019, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) CA$ 300Mn Sustainable Affordable Housing Initiative (SAH) was launched to improve the energy efficiency and affordability of new and existing affordable housing units. To address barriers experienced by affordable housing providers (herein ‘...