The objective of the Project was to assist the Chinese government to empower women in poor areas with large ethnic minority populations by (i) enhancing local women’s self-management and self-development capacity and entrepreneurship skills through capacity building and institutional strengthening...
Universalia was contracted by the Australia-Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction (AIFDR) to carry out organizational assessments of Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) and Sub-National Disaster Management Agencies (BPBDs) to inform AIFDR ’s new program and identify major...
The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) was established in 2005 as an informal coalition of organizations whose common goal is to strengthen – through tenure and market reforms – the rights of rural and indigenous communities to access forest and land resources in order to reduce poverty 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...
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...
UN Women merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system, which focused exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment: the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW); the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women...
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...
Universalia was mandated by UNICEF to carry out an evaluation of the Child Protection Monitoring and Response System (CPMRS) project, which was supported by UNICEF Thailand from 2006-2012. The evaluation examined the relevance effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of project results and...
The evaluation was an end-of-cycle evaluation of the cooperation programme “Social protection and social inclusion in Latin North America and the Caribbean” implemented between 2010 and 2011 by ECLAC and the Swedish International Cooperation Agency (Sida) in Latin North America and the Caribbean...
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...