Management Response

: Uganda
: 2020 - 2020 , Uganda (CO)
: Evaluation of Advancing Women’s Leadership Empowerment and Resilience in Uganda’s Refugee Response (LEAP)
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: Uganda
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LEAP I Final Evaluation Management Response
: Approved
Recommendation: UN Women should ensure that the Result Framework is regularly updated as a part of the program living document
Management Response: Quarterly performance results review sessions will be conducted to ensure program implementation capture results and indicators tracking.
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Description: In order to improve on monitoring Programme performance progress, UN Women should ensure that the Result Framework is regularly updated since it is a living reference point. If a result is not tracked progressively (either because of no performance indicator or no data collected), it would be a good M&E practice to either drop or revise the result and indicator for ease of continuous monitoring.
Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Peace and security (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind
Organizational Priorities: Culture of results/RBM
UNEG Criteria: Efficiency
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Design robust result orientated indicator performance trackers and regularly updated PMERK Specialist 2025/12 Ongoing
Recommendation: Engage financial institutions to create a digital system that links VSLAs to banks in order to fully maximize VSLA profits.
Management Response: Financial inclusion for women including use of digitalization platforms has been included in the new strategic note thus all WEE related programs will embed financial inclusion and digitalization as area of intervention.
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Description: The evaluation recommends that UN Women should engage financial institutions to create a digital system that links VSLAs to banks in order to fully maximize VSLA profits.
Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Sustainability
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Design economic empowerment programs geared towards financial inclusion and digitalization targeting women and girls in both refugees and host communities. Deputy Country Representative 2025/12 Ongoing
Recommendation: Establish one-stop center for IPs to enhance skilling and other related auxiliary services
Management Response: Scale up on on-going initiatives that are aimed at developing skilling hubs.
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Description: Implementing Partners should have one stop centers/hubs for skilling, distribution of services, support for cash for work enterprises, enhance access to markets and ease access to government services for refugee and host communities to registration services and holistically support start-ups.
Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind
Organizational Priorities: Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Gender equality, Impact, Sustainability
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Include establishment of a services hub as part of scale up programs Program Specialists 2021/12 Completed This action has been included in the LEAP II Program which started in March 2022. Progress of this innovative intervention will be tracked under the new LEAP II
Recommendation: Scale up current success of LEAP I
Management Response: Negotiations are on-going with the existing and other donors to ensure
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Description: It is recommended that the scope of the Programme should be extended to the entire district including non-hosting communities to be at the same level with the refugees and host communities in terms of empowerment.
Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Peace and security (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Alignment with strategy
Organizational Priorities: Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Sustainability, Impact
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Design scale up programs to build on LEAP I initiative Deputy Country Representative 2021/12 Completed Secured new funding for scale up program - LEAP II. This is being funded through Royal Embassy of Norway