Management Response

: Sudan
: 2018 - 2023 , Sudan (CO)
: Sudan Country Portfolio Evaluation 2018-2023
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: Sudan
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The CO agrees with the main findings as it was discussed during the whole process with the evaluation team.
: Approved
Recommendation: Considering comparative advantage and evidence to guide decision-making:
Management Response: Based on the available funds and when agreed upon with the Donors, context analysis and needs assessments were conducted systematically. The area of improvement would be on identifying and building on results achieved by other partners and complement interventions with UNW's comparative advantage for sustainability and an efficient use of the funds available. A resource mobilization strategy to engage with more Donors in being implemented. The aim is to gather sufficient resources to implement long- term humanitarian and development projects to enable assessment of short, medium and long term effects of UN Women's interventions.
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Description: The Country Office to (a) prioritize efforts to focus UN Women’s limited resources, building on needs assessments/context analysis that considers other stakeholders’ programming and UN Women’s particular comparative advantage, alongside the current conflict context, and document this process; and (b) assess the changes required to the strategy developed under the transitional government period; and (c) move towards more prioritized, consolidated, larger, longer-term projects.
Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Peace and security (SPs before 2018), Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018), Leadership and political participation (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Internal coordination and communication, Evidence, Data and statistics, Resource mobilization
Organizational Priorities: Partnership, Culture of results/RBM, Organizational efficiency
UNEG Criteria: Efficiency, Relevance, Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Emphasize on conducting needs assessments, context analysis and mapping of past interventions when discussing project funding with Donors. Ensure project intended results build on past results achieved by UN Women and other partners. Richard Cox_ Resources mobilization and donor relations consultant 2024/12 Not Initiated
Recommendation: Strengthening office capacity:
Management Response: The organization needs to adopt a country profile that will allow clear roles and responsibilities to alleviate the Country Representative from the office technical tasks. In view of the complex situation in Sudan the agency needs to establish a Deputy Representative position.
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Description: The Country Office to further strengthen its capacity by clarifying the management. structure and considering the split of responsibilities between the Country Representative and other senior staff; filling gaps in finance/operations, monitoring and communications, and reviewing personnel time allocated to the office’s humanitarian and coordination mandates.
Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Capacity development, Knowledge management
Organizational Priorities: UN Coordination, Organizational efficiency, HIV/AIDS
UNEG Criteria: Efficiency
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Establishing the position of Deputy Representative. Raise awareness of the senior management on the urgency of the situation. Maxime Houinato_Regional Director 2024/07 Not Initiated
Recommendation: Strengthening coordination:
Management Response: During the last two years of the SN and especially in 2023 with the war outbreak and consequently the humanitarian crisis, UNW has prioritized coordination within the UN System including by actively participating in the UNIGTG and providing technical support on gender at inter-agency level, including a review of the HNRP 2023 and the development of the HRP 2024. In addition, UN Women became a member of the following clusters: Accountability for Affected Population/Community Engagement and Accountability Cluster, Cash Programming Cluster.
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Description: The Country Office to invest more in its coordination mandate and ensure this is reflected in corporate and individual workplans.
Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Internal coordination and communication
Organizational Priorities: UN Coordination, Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Efficiency, Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Identify specific coordination role for each staff member based on their TORs. Review of staff members TORs. Adjaratou Fatou Ndiaye_Country Representative 2024/06 Not Initiated
Recommendation: Maximizing intervention effectiveness and sustainability:
Management Response: A resource mobilization strategy to engage with more Donors in being implemented. The aim is to gather sufficient resources to implement long- term humanitarian, peace and development projects to enable assessment of short, medium and long term effects of UN Women's interventions and their sustainability. However, the current humanitarian context is a limit to increasing the scope and scale of projects due to the instability of partners and beneficiaries.
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Description: When designing interventions, the Country Office to consider the scope and scale necessary to effect sustainable change and the barriers that may affect uptake of outcomes. Key barriers identified by the evaluation were the ability to take forward skills training, e.g. funds to set up new businesses; and social norms, e.g. support of men to ensure that they did not take over businesses and activities after the end of the intervention. This would maximize the effectiveness and sustainability of interventions and, in doing so, deliver greater value for money for the upfront time and resource investment.
Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Alignment with strategy, South-South cooperation
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Efficiency, Impact, Relevance, Sustainability
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Strengthen the capacity of IP to enable them to implement projects impacting a larger number of beneficiaries. Develop and implement a capacity building plan for IP. Fatma Mohamed_ National programme Officer 2024/12 Not Initiated
Recommendation: Increasing accessibility for relevant participants and partners:
Management Response: With the current humanitarian context, this recommendation may be difficult to address. But in areas not affected by the conflict the following proposed actions can be taken.
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Description: When designing interventions, the Country Office to further consider potential barriers to accessibility and consider how activities can be best designed to maximize accessibility for all target participants. This will also help support leave no one behind objectives, to ensure the intervention is accessible to all.
Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Efficiency, Sustainability, Relevance
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Engage with Master organizations that will coordinate community initiatives; at the planning stage, clearly define the target beneficiaries and plan activities early enough to allow maximum participation. Undertake a mapping of NGO specialized in GE and women's rights to identify those that can reach a larger target groups and diversify the office partnerships and areas of intervention. Awatif Nihar_Senior programme coordinator 2024/06 Not Initiated