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 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 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...
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 100th Anniversary of the Rockefeller Foundation gives the opportunity to build on the Foundation’s strengths and its legacy to provide leadership, use its convening power, deploy its intellectual capital, and apply its grantmaking to develop and promote game-changing ideas and innovations that...
The objective of the Evaluation of the Mision de Apoyo al Proceso de Paz in Colombia of the Organization of the North American states was to provide a summative and a formative evaluation of the MAPP/OEA since its inception, with a particular emphasis on its last 2010/2013 phase. The evaluation...