Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/05/2022 - 15/05/2022
All Day
Categories
Women for Women International (WfWI)
Background information
WfWI works with the most marginalized women in conflict-affected countries to help them move from poverty and isolation to self-sufficiency and empowerment. Through our core combined economic and social empowerment programme, we aim to provide participants with a combination of knowledge, skills, and resources to increase their self-confidence and capacity to create sustainable change in their lives and those of their families and communities. Since 1993, WfWI has served over 520,000 women in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and South Sudan.
The Project
Under the Government of the United Kingdom FCDO 2019 – 2022 programme, WfWI was awarded a grant that sought the social and economic empowerment of marginalized women in South Kivu’s grassroots communities. 1,200 marginalized women (primary beneficiaries) are trained on rights, vocational and business skills; 60 male leaders and 60 women leaders are engaged as women’s rights advocates, mobilizing 6,910 community members (secondary beneficiaries). Three CSOs strengthened to lead a local advocacy alliance, opening a community dialogue, action, and accountability space on VAWG and land rights.
Overview of the Evaluation
The final evaluation will be used to enhance WfWI understanding of implementation successes and challenges, as well as provide lessons and guidance for the broader sector, particularly actors working in conflict-affected settings.
The evaluation has four explicit objectives:
- To evaluate the entire FCDO project cycle in terms of effectiveness, relevance, efficiency, sustainability and impact
- Provide findings, conclusions and recommendations in order to draw lessons for WfWI’s future design and implementation of community level women’s empowerment and advocacyprojects;
- To evaluate the effectiveness of the project’s advocacy alliance, including the effectiveness of organizational capacity building efforts and how the alliance contributed to community-level outcomes,
- Toassess the extent to which targeted community-level decision-makers engaged to support women’s rights, and evaluate this project’s contribution to more responsive service (e.g., legal, health, etc.) delivery.
Closing Date: Sunday 15 May 2022