The Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme (RPSP), created in 2014 by the GCF, has a mandate to provide three levels of readiness and preparatory support. First, it supports the preparation of country programmes providing for low‐emission, climate‐resilient development strategies or plans....
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...
The Volunteer Cooperation Program (VCP) 2015-2020 is the current vehicle by which Global Affairs Canada (GAC ) is financially supporting 12 volunteer-sending projects being implemented by Canadian volunteer cooperation agencies (VCAs) in collaboration with their local partners. Its overall target...
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...
Co-led by Universalia and our Nigerian in-country associate, this assignment evaluated the UNICEF Nigeria Country Office’s training investments between 2014 and 2016. The evaluation examined whether these investments were relevant, effective, efficient, and sustainable, and employs the Kirkpatrick...
During the period under consideration, the general goals of the Moroccan Government were to improve the social and economic wellbeing of citizens and buttress Morocco’s position on the political scene and in the world economy. In this context, the African Development Bank financed structural reform...
In 2012, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) joined forces and launched the Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development (r4d programme). In May 2017 Universalia was contracted by the programme to undertake a mid-...
Universalia was recently contracted by the International Development Research Center (IDRC) to conduct a final evaluation of the Safe and Inclusive Cities (SAIC) program. Financed jointly by IDRC and DfID, SAIC’s primary objective is to document the linkages between urban violence, poverty, and...
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...