Management Response

: Nepal
: 2017 - 2017 , Nepal (CO)
: Meta evaluation of the NCOs WPS evaluations
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: Nepal
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The meta-analysis highlights lessons learned across UN Women’s Women, Peace and Security (WPS) programmes and provides recommendations on WPS issues and explores ideas for UN Women to continue supporting WPS agenda in Nepal. The meta-evaluations of six evaluation reports were commissioned by the UN Women Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) using the Global Evaluation Report Assessment and Analysis System (GERAAS), and conducted between 2014 and 2017. Building on the meta-evaluation, the meta-analysis was conducted by an independent consultant and took place between 31st October 2017 and 3rd January 2018. The six evaluations include: (1) Mid-Term Evaluation of Strengthening Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in Nepal SIWPSAN(Jun 2012-Dec 2016); (2) Final Evaluation of Strengthening Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in Nepal (Jun 2012-Dec 2016); 3. Final Evaluation Ensuring Participatory and Secure Transition (2013-2015); 4. Final Evaluation of Localizing Women Peace and security agenda in Central Terai Districts of Nepal Project (Jan 2015-Oct 2016); 5. Mid-Term Evaluation of Gender Responsive Recovery for Sustainable Peace (GRRSP) (Oct 2012-Dec 2015); and 6. Final (2015) Evaluation of Gender Responsive Recovery for Sustainable Peace (GRRSP) (Oct 2012-Dec 2015).
: Approved
Recommendation: Recommendation 1: Ensure conflict affected survivors are integrated as one of the target groups throughout UN Women Nepal’s thematic area. This will further support their recovery efforts. Recommendation 2: Invest in translating all relevant tools on addressing sexual and gender-based violence and its prevention and response into local languages to ensure local engagement and sustainability. Translations and long-term capacity building should be prioritized over the repetitive production of new tools, strategies, guidelines and advocacy campaigns. Recommendation 4: Further refining selection protocols for projects which ensures identification of appropriate beneficiaries who are representative of their communities. Recommendation 5: Commit to gender parity among project staff (that is 50 per cent women) and to the training of all staff in gender equality programming and the protection of women’s human rights, identifying and responding to the early warning specially with regards to emerging conflict and tension. Recommendation 7: Ensure that UN Women is a member of all relevant inter-agency forums on peace, security and humanitarian response, including the relevant Advisory Group on peace and security, to ensure a gender perspective is mainstreamed throughout the UN’s response in conflict, disaster, early warning and emergencies. Recommendation 8: Consider either applying only for funding with longer than 2-year duration or lobbying donors to extend the duration and funding of projects which address WPS. Recommendation 9: Strengthen existing management committees for gender equality in project locations to address lack of intermenstrual, coordination, Federal, Provincial, Local Government coordination, timely budget release, effective documentation, reporting and institutional memory, ownership among local authorities. Recommendation 10: Consider expanding reference to all eight WPS resolutions along with other international instrument in UN Women work related to participation, protection, prevention and peacebuilding. Recommendation 11: Engage beneficiaries in all stages of project cycle. Recommendation 12: Where projects are jointly implemented, ensure clarity of roles, and encourage joint planning and monitoring of projects to enhance ownership and increase efficiency. Recommendation 13: Ensure systems and procedures are commonly understood by all stakeholders. Recommendation 14: Ensure consolidated Theories of Change are developed for each project accompanied by risk management and contingency strategies. Recommendation 15: To enhance the sustainability of efforts, UN Women should ensure its projects focus on enhancing the capacity of existing mechanisms and networks, both across government and Civil Society, rather than initiating new ones. Recommendation 16: Consider greater attention to engaging men as advocates of gender equality. Recommendation 17: Continue to build on comprehensive packages which address economic recovery and psycho social support.
Management Response: The management response has been discussed with the team. In total seventeen management response have been received. The office decided to club together all the recommendations related to the programme design and implementation into one framework. All recommendations have been accepted.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Peace and security (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind, Evidence, Data and statistics, Resource mobilization
Organizational Priorities: Culture of results/RBM
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Efficiency, Relevance, Sustainability, Human Rights, Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Ensure all the programme designs and implementation plans of UN Women Nepal are informed by above recommendation. Programme Units 2018/12 Completed UN Women developed a draft checklist to be incorporated as pre-conditions for project/programme in all new design. The draft checklist has been shared to all staff. The Programme unit will update the checklist as per the Programme Operation Management (POM) which has been revised and replaced by the Policy, Procedure and Guideline (PPG) where the changes have been reflected.
Recommendation: Support the establishment of an independent monitoring mechanism run by women’s civil society groups and women’s human rights defenders in future peacebuilding programs to track implementation of the national action plan implementation.
Management Response: Partially Accepted
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Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Peace and security (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Oversight/governance, National ownership
Organizational Priorities: Culture of results/RBM
UNEG Criteria: Efficiency, Effectiveness
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Advocate for the establishment of an independent monitoring mechanism run by women’s civil society groups and women’s human rights defenders in the NAP Second Phase implementation. Programme Units 2018/12 Completed UN Women has been advocating for the establishment of an independent monitoring mechanism run by women’s civil society groups and women’s human rights defenders in the NAP II phase. Ministry of Home Affairs and the NAP II drafting committee members has been requested for this. MOHA is in the process of finalizing the NAP II by February 2020
Recommendation: Continue advocating for local level allocation of funds for GEWE as part of National Level Gender Responsive Budget allocation. The budget should be allocated to address women’s leadership at all levels, addressing violence against women, addressing peace, security and humanitarian efforts, increasing gender responsive local planning and implementation process.
Management Response: Accepted
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Peace and security (SPs before 2018), Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Oversight/governance, National ownership, Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind
Organizational Priorities: Partnership, Normative Support, Culture of results/RBM
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Efficiency, Sustainability
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Continue advocacy through UN Women partners at the local level to reiterate local level allocation of funds for GEWE. Programme Units 2022/12 Ongoing UN Women has been continuing its advocacy to the drafting committee of NAP II to include one action plan in the NAP II document targeting the local level government for allocation of fund for GEWE on NAP II. UN Women continues to advocate for increased financing for GEWE including at the provincial and local level in coordination with the Gender Responsive Budgeting Committee of the Ministry of Finance. Previously, UN Women ‘s partner Search for Common Ground advocated with select local government to allocate for GEWE in province no 7. These efforts are being continued under the second phase of the Inclusive Governance programme. Several recommendations provided by UN Women on GEWE were incorporated in the Approach Paper to the 15th National Development Plan. Similarly, four out of seven provincial governments acknowledged inputs provided by NCO in their multi-year provincial plans. Further phase 2 of UN Women’s project on Inclusive Governance being implemented by a NGO partner focuses on strengthening capacities of key stakeholders at the local level -which includes building capacities of elected representatives on gender responsive planning and budgeting; and also building leadership of women at the community level to demand accountability for gender equality including through increased financing.