Management Response

: Kyrgyzstan
: 2018 - 2022 , Kyrgyzstan (CO)
: Final Evaluation: Across Generation and Gender Borders - Communities Combatting Gender-Based Violence in Kyrgyzstan
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: Kyrgyzstan
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In 2021 UN Women Kyrgyzstan Country Office (CO) will enhance the HRBA approach and incorporate considerations of effects of various intersecting forms of discrimination into the design and implementation phases of its interventions through applying knowledge, innovation, results-based management, and monitoring and evaluation in close cooperation with national stakeholder line ministries, civil society organizations, think-thank organization and local public authorities, women and men, girls and boys. UN Women key focus for 2021 is to expand EVAW concepts to broader strategies for addressing the complexity of violence (all forms of violence: domestic, political, economic, psychological, at the workplace) and to facilitate the Gender Equality Strategy development process with the practical application of experiential testing of Adaptive Leadership and Oxford Scenario Planning Approach/adoption at different levels: individuals/ communities/ institutions; service providers at the national and local level, including the development of the NAP on GE for three years. UN Women will continue to further strengthen its coordination mandate under the framework of SDGs, CEDAW, Beijing 25+, CSW, and WPS agenda, in collaboration with national and sub-national government agencies, civil society, academia, and media at various levels of government. CO will include plans and targets for nation-wide dissemination of the intervention experiences and approaches in the implementation plans for new interventions. by a) informing partners regularly about the UN Women’s normative support work and its operational linkages to projects that are being implemented, and b) intensifying the awareness-raising and advocacy campaign through traditional mass media and social networks. The role of UN Women CO as Innovator and Knowledge Broker was specifically noted in the Evaluation Report of the EIDHR project in the part of recommendations to CO on ‘establishing itself as the center of Gender Action Learning System (GALS) expertise in Central Asia. The success of the GALS application in the EIDHR reinforced CO to incorporate knowledge, innovation, results-based management, and evaluation incorporated in the programs to ensure great quality and effectiveness and has launched several innovative approaches/methodologies that aim at catalyzing transformative changes in different areas. CO continues the engagement with the high state officials and ministries at the strategic level on GEWE and has started the process of exploring the possibility to deliver GALS training to the Minister of Labor and Social Development, Head of the Forum of Women Parliamentarians. The Minister of Economy expressed the interest in applying OSPA for the improvement of methodologies for socio-economic planning. As part of the transformative technical support to the development of the GES, the inter-ministerial working group also received training on ALPD that enhanced the linkages and collaboration between the national and regional level GEWE experts. Group keeps on identifying PDs at the sub-national level that aims to strengthen the inclusive dialogue between the national and local level gender champions as well as present innovative and home-grown solutions for advancing GE in the country.

: Approved
Recommendation: The CO to strengthen the application of a human rights-based approach by explicitly integrating considerations of effects of various intersecting forms of discrimination (including on the basis of ethnicity and disability) on the prevalence of the problems targeted by specific interventions within specific population groups into the design and implementation phases.
Management Response: The recommendation is accepted with the caveat that the focus will be on SI that will start its active implementation in 2021. The Spotlight Initiative (SI) in Kyrgyzstan will use a comprehensive set of approaches based on HRBA, among others, to the planning, coordination, implementation, and monitoring of interventions across the six Pillars/Outcome Areas. Emphasis will be placed on integrating the voices and experiences and solutions of women and girls who face multiple forms of discrimination, in line with the SDG principle of LNOB Behind. As far as UN Women’s follow-up is concerned, HRBA will be given emphasis at the pillar 3 (norm change); pillar 4 (services), and pillar 6 (CSOs) activities, where the agency plays a critical role or leading a pillar.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Peace and security (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Impact
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When designing new interventions in the future the CO shall conduct an analysis of the effects of intersection between various forms of discrimination – including related to gender, ethnicity, disability status, income level - on prevalence and manifestation of the targeted problem for specific population groups to ensure that no-one is left behind. UN Women Kyrgyzstan Country Office 2022/01 Completed Given activities will be included into every project at the design stage. Since February 2021, all UN Women projects/programmes/interventions for tracking purposes were consolidated in the Monitoring matrix for internal use and updated on the regular basis. This allows proper accountability, making it easier for continuous learning, improvement, and reporting specific to each donor. This end-to-end monitoring and evaluation tools that allow to reduce all the core monitoring functionalities. Excel data is manageable and open to the programme staff. Since November 2021 UN Women in cooperation with International Alert holds series of activities within Knowledge Management Fair: ‘What Works in Behavior Change’ for organizations involved in SGBV prevention in Kyrgyzstan. This event was joined by the Extended GTG members that will promote benchmarking. UN Women and development partners used data visualization tools to demonstrate activities and outcomes and store it for institutional memory and knowledge sharing. That will also feed into the collecting data that would allow analyzing the project reach to most vulnerable groups, including collecting data on disability status of participants and other relevant characteristics.
Design monitoring system for future interventions to collect data that would allow analyzing the project reach to most vulnerable groups, including collecting data on disability status of participants and other relevant characteristics. UN Women Kyrgyzstan Country Office 2021/01 Completed Since April 2021 UN Women within JPRWEE and Support to Elections projects have been utilizing WhatsApp and Telegram groups, google docs to collect offline remote data. Success stories and best practices of the partners are communicated in the groups. In addition, Since February 2021 UN Women has an official Facebook page that is a great platform to share news and collect feedback/suggestions of the implementing partners. In long-term this will allow analyzing the project reach to households rather than only individuals.
Design a monitoring system for future interventions to collect data that would allow analyzing the project reach to households rather than only individuals. UN Women Kyrgyzstan Country Office 2021/05 Completed In order to collect offline remote data both for individual and household levels, CO will use social media such as WhatsApp or Facebook these tools allow to collect data from stakeholders who do not own email addresses but use social media tools. CO is elaborating a well-designed data strategy that can yield proper accountability, making it easier for continuous learning, improvement, and reporting specific to each donor.
Recommendation: In the future the CO to include plans and targets for nation-wide dissemination of the intervention experiences and approaches in the implementation plans for new interventions.
Management Response: CO will include its plans and targets for nation-wide dissemination of the intervention experiences and approaches in the implementation plans for new interventions in its communication strategy for 2021. CO will keep informing partners regularly about the UN Women’s normative support work and its operational linkages to projects that are being implemented, and intensify the awareness-raising and advocacy campaign through traditional mass media and social networks.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Advocacy
Organizational Priorities: Organizational efficiency
UNEG Criteria: Efficiency
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Include nation-wide dissemination events and related targets in the future project proposals to ensure that they remain on the agenda of the implementing team. UN Women Kyrgyzstan Country Office 2022/01 Completed According to the findings of the Mid-Term Review of 2018-2022 CO was suggested to develop an effective communications strategy that will involve program staff will actively work on the nation-wide dissemination events and related targets in the future project proposals to ensure that they remain on the agenda of the implementing team.
Involve relevant national partners in the organization of such dissemination events to ensure full national coverage and attendance of relevant personnel across the country. UN Women Kyrgyzstan Country Office 2022/01 Completed CO is actively involving relevant national partners in dissemination events to ensure full national coverage and attendance of relevant personnel across the country through newsletters, press releases to all media agencies, and social media. As for the high-level government events, relevant ministry/state agency takes lead in the dissemination event.
Involve project beneficiaries to present their experiences of using approaches and interventions introduced by interventions to promote their broad uptake. UN Women Kyrgyzstan Country Office 2021/01 Completed CO involves project beneficiaries to present their experience through the success stories to demonstrate results of the programme intervention through the prism of beneficiaries. A search for positive deviants was a substantial success, ergo this tool to be replicated in other programmes on the national and regional levels.
Recommendation: The CO to strategically use innovations developed within ongoing and past interventions to strengthen its comparative advantage as the knowledge center on gender equality and eradication of GBV.
Management Response: With insufficient time and budget available in 2021, UN Women will apply the full GALS catalyst process and OSPA scenario in the programme interventions to strengthen its comparative advantage as the knowledge center on gender equality and eradication of GBV.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Knowledge management
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Efficiency, Relevance
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Organize a national online event (series of events) to promote innovative approaches developed by the project and adopted by social workers and teachers in target communities to the staff of the Ministry of Labor and Social Development, Ministry of Education, State Agency for Local Self-Government, and Inter-Ethnic Relations as well as social workers and teacher around the country. UN Women Kyrgyzstan Country Office 2022/01 Completed UN Women has launched several innovative approaches/methodologies that aim at catalyzing transformative changes in different areas: Interministerial Working group led by the Ministry of Labor and Social Development have started applying Oxford Scenario Planning Approach (OSPA) tools in the process of Gender Equality Strategy development. For the first time development of policy, documents are being done through the visioning of different scenarios that will help in informing/defining solutions adaptive to quickly changing contexts. The group of close to 60 experts/activists have improved their skills and knowledge by learning innovative methodologies on Adaptive Leadership and Positive Deviance (ALPD) and have then applied the approach for defining positive deviants for a) women-LG partnership for local COVID response and crisis preparedness; b) women political participation – elections /active CS participation in voicing regarding ongoing political processes; c) changes in community perceptions on women migrants’ role in and contribution to the processes of local development and conflict resolution; d) changes in social norms and behaviors on EVAWG.
Collect information about GALS adaptation by other institutions for further dissemination. UN Women Kyrgyzstan Country Office 2022/01 Completed It is important to collect information about GALS adaptation by other institutions for further dissemination and experience exchange and learning.
Conduct a follow-up study/evaluation of the long-term sustainability and impact of this project on target communities two years after the project completion. This study may be part of the future Country Portfolio Evaluation. UN Women Kyrgyzstan Country Office 2022/10 Completed In order to assess the long-term sustainability and impact of this project on the target community, the follow-up study to be conducted after two years after the project's completion within future Country Portfolio Evaluation. UN Women will contract an independent evaluation team to implement the given activity.