Management Response

: Albania
: 2022 - 2025 , Albania (CO)
: Final Evaluation of UNJP on EVAW Phase I (2018-2021)
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: Albania
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: Approved
Recommendation: Operational recommendation. Strengthen the coordination between implementing UN agencies on: 1) Clearly highlighting areas in which other programmes are complementing to different outputs or outcomes. 2) Regularly capture and discuss best practices and approaches across agencies and disseminate lessons learnt for further scaling-up. 3) Providing space for more strategic and forward-looking conversations on areas such as sustainability or comparing and assessing approaches of delivery
Management Response: In their future programmatic interventions, UN Agencies will leverage existing interagency mechanisms to identify and foster complementarities between programmatic interventions such as the Gender Thematic and Results Group, the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (CF) Outcome Groups and the UN Country Team meetings. Discussions would, provided by UN Agencies. These discussion forums would also provide for capitalizing on best practices in addressing GBV and foster coordinated approaches by all relevant stakeholders, sharing on a more regular basis lessons learned and developing strategies to ensure sustainability of actions.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Internal coordination and communication
Organizational Priorities: UN Coordination
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Plan at least one meeting of the GTRG or UNSDCF Outcome 4 Results Group dedicated, or partly dedicated, to discuss interagency synergies in the area of EVAW. Ensure inclusion of EVAW activities in the UN JWPs for the year and results in the UN Annual Progress Report. UNDP, UN Women and UNFPA 2023/12 Ongoing
In new interventions, include lessons learnt and best practices on adequate response to preventing and ending violence against women and girls at the local level UNDP, UN Women and UNFPA 2023/12 Ongoing
Present the main results of the EVAWIA JP Phase I in interagency/multi stakeholder forums at national/regional/global level with the aim to promote learning and exchanges on other similar experiences. UNDP, UN Women 2023/06 Completed Main results presented at the donor coordination meeting in October 2022
Recommendation: Operational recommendation. Mobilize resources to support the development of clear monitoring tools and reporting: 1) Diminish the number of output and outcome indicators, while avoiding duplications. 2) Link activities, results, and outcomes more clearly to document change, and to support the comparison between approaches used and identification of best practices. 3) Include outcome indicators that assess the degree of implementation of policies/legislation across different sectors and municipalities, in order to identify best practices. 4) Identify ways to measure in the impact of awareness raising efforts and support learning.
Management Response: In the process of developing the future programmatic work of implementing UN Agencies, resources will be provided to contribute to a better monitoring and reporting framework that would be enable to better capture change at the output and outcome level
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Alignment with strategy
Organizational Priorities: Culture of results/RBM
UNEG Criteria: Gender equality, Impact, Effectiveness
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
The new programme monitoring matrix to be developed in full reflection of evaluation recommendations, including ensuring that a monitoring and reporting specialist is foreseen and is responsible solely for monitoring and reporting on the project. UN Women 2023/12 Ongoing
In future interventions, include activities on the replication of CRM functionality assessment report in order to draw comparisons with the baseline assessment report of 2019 and provide recommendations for adequate implementation of legislation UNDP 2023/12 Ongoing
Recommendation: Programmatic recommendation. Continue working with the Parliament and NHRIs focusing on: 1) New MPs and especially male MPs should be more involved. Further, MPs need to be more involved in sharing the key findings and best practices from the projects, to understand the main problems and gaps so they can help influencing policy processes. 2) Research and findings could be presented to MPs in a very summarized manner. 3) Training the MPs on GRB was identified as a good practice that should continue. 4) The oversight role of Parliament and NHRIs should be strengthened by providing clear and updated evidence to support this role. Legal changes have different and sometimes unforeseen effects which often remain not fully assessed and thus failing to make it to policy for increased efficiency of GBV actions. 5) Work with the Parliament could also be strengthened by bringing into the discussions with MPs, any relevant CSOs, NHRIs and donors, so a concerted action on advocacy, visibility and funding is built.
Management Response: UN Agencies will continue to work with Parliament and NHRIs in areas of oversight, advocacy and strengthening the legislative monitoring in the area of EVAW.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development, National ownership
Organizational Priorities: Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Impact, Human Rights, Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Future interventions to include areas of cooperation and support for strengthening the role of Parliament and HR institutions to strengthen policies and further improve legislation that address gender-based violence UNDP, UN Women and UNFPA 2023/12 Ongoing
Recommendation: Programmatic recommendation. Foster strategic partnerships with CSOs and empowering them in service provision, and advocacy focusing on: 1) Mechanisms that incentivize CSOs networking and engagement in advocacy through joint efforts could be defined. 2) Re-thinking of interventions should be done with the purpose of further enhancing the local/national capacities, specifically focusing on encouraging activism. 3) Empower CSOs to advocate jointly for increased funding for social care services.
Management Response: In the process of developing the future programmatic work of implementing UN Agencies, resources will be provided to contribute to a better monitoring and reporting framework that would be enable to better capture change at the output and outcome level
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: National ownership, Capacity development, Advocacy
Organizational Priorities: Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Gender equality, Human Rights, Sustainability, Impact, Effectiveness
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Future interventions to envisage partnerships with CSOs engaging them at municipal level in advocacy, awareness raising actions and service provision. UNDP, UN Women and UNFPA 2023/12 Ongoing
Recommendation: Programmatic recommendation. A more consistent outreach to the population using different channels of communication should be prioritised focusing on increasing awareness of women, men and specially boys, on prevention, reporting and support available on: 1) Ensuring that pre/post-surveys are applied to try to measure the relative effectiveness of different platforms of communication. 2) Work with communication companies to consolidate more realistic audience results, that avoid duplication in the counting of viewers/audience and/or provides a better reflection of who the viewers of the different channels are and what is the added value of each of the channels used. 3) Set differential approaches to reach communities in rural areas as well as marginalised communities and people with disabilities. 4) Continuation of education and awareness of the younger generation, teachers, parents and communities.
Management Response: Recommendation fully accepted. UN Agencies will continue to strengthen their strategic use of different communication channels and will adopt a more strategic outreach strategy to communicate results, with an enhanced focus on reaching out to the most vulnerable communities including women with disabilities. In addition, UN Agencies will continue to work with youth and with the education sectors to maximize the potential of young people as agents of change
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Advocacy
Organizational Priorities: Partnership, Youth engagement, Engaging men and boys
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Relevance, Impact, Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Future interventions to include, as part of the partnerships with CSOs, outreach to women with disabilities, Roma and Egyptians, LGBTI communities, etc. UNDP UN Women UNFPA 2023/12 Ongoing
Future interventions to include specific indicators that measure outreach (including to vulnerable communities) and communication of results UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA 2023/12 Ongoing
At least one activity in future interventions will continue to focus on awareness raising of teachers, parents and students UN Women, UNFPA 2023/12 Ongoing
Recommendation: Programmatic recommendation. A greater focus on geographical coverage and outreach on: 1) Future interventions need to also focus on smaller communities and remote areas with the support of local CSOs to improve outreach and service delivery. 2) Combining synergies with CSOs active in the targeted areas might be more effective for the consolidation of results. Stakeholders have also suggested the need to diversify the CSOs to ensure that capacities do not remain concentrated in a few organisations. This is particularly the case for CSOs located in remote areas and which could be empowered through mentoring/coaching of larger CSOs or umbrella organizations in order to improve service delivery.
Management Response: UN Agencies will build on partnership developed with CSOs to enable better geographical coverage and diversify outreach to the most vulnerable women and girls. The work with CSO would still be implemented in full synergy/alignment with LGUs which remain principle duty bearers for ensuring services in the communities.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Humanitarian action, Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Gender equality, Effectiveness
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Future interventions to include partnering with CSOs and municipalities in key target areas identified jointly by implementing partners, to maximize geographical and target groups outreach to provide services for women and girls, survivors of violence UNDP, UN Women and UNFPA 2023/12 Ongoing
Future interventions to support grassroots CSOs through capacity building activities in different programmatic interventions to increase their engagement and contribution in the area of violence against women. UNDP, UN Women and UNFPA 2023/12 Ongoing
Recommendation: Programmatic recommendation. Capitalize and consolidate the best practices initiated through this UNJP and considering other successful interventions supported by different actors. Reflections need to take into account the approaches at the local level and CSOs, sharing good practices/approaches from the field and going beyond the higher-level achievements (ie strategy, legal changes etc). The dissemination of good practices will also serve to other municipalities
Management Response: Capitalizing on best practices and boosting champions among service providers has been successfully embraced throughout programme implementation and the UN Agencies will continue to do so in future programmatic work.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Knowledge management
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Gender equality, Sustainability
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
In the new joint programme foresee work with ‘champions’ of good practices at local level, foster exchanges and peer to peer networking UNDP, UN Women and UNFPA 2023/12 Ongoing
Recommendation: Programmatic intervention. Future interventions should explicitly include strategies targeting disadvantaged communities, minority groups and those living in rural/remote areas and strengthen efforts to reach out to them. This should be focused on strong knowledge on their specific circumstances feeding into the designing of tailored outputs fostering their resilience and empowerment through a human rights-based approach.
Management Response: Applying the principle of intersectionality and Leaving No One Behind, UN Agencies will continue to foster partnership with CSOs that represent disadvantaged communities, minority groups with a focus on the ones living in remote areas
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Impact, Human Rights, Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Future interventions, new joint programme or other programmatic initiatives to include work with CSOs representing R/E, PwDs, LGBTI persons to increase diversity and geographical coverage UNDP, UN Women 2023/12 Ongoing
Recommendation: Programmatic intervention. Future capacity building actions need to integrate clear strategies for increased ownership, consolidation, and institutionalization of trainings, for example ensuring that the courses become part of regular capacity building courses provided to duty bearers. Activities should also consider including higher management levels in the training to support higher sustainability of results
Management Response: UN Agencies will continue to consolidate the established partnership with leading public education institutions and other duty bearers to develop certified trainings of public officials
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: National ownership, Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Gender equality, Sustainability
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Future interventions will include activities that boost further the partnership with ASPA, School of Magistrates, Academy of State Police in order to include in their training curricula, certified training modules on GBV related legislation UNDP, UN Women, UNFPA 2023/12 Ongoing
Recommendation: Programmatic intervention. Consider integrating capacity development to support local stakeholders addressing complex cases coming from marginal communities, including survivors with mental issues, and disabilities. Designing multidisciplinary trainings among relevant public institutions- combining dedicated trainings jointly with CRMs members could be beneficial supporting an integrated response and ensuring that roles of each actor are well understood. A similar approach can be applied for trainings targeting prosecutors and school of magistrates. Mentoring and trainings in the workplace were highlighted as effective approaches that could continue
Management Response: UN Agencies will continue to support to the municipalities, consolidate mentoring and diversify thematic multi sectorial trainings with CRM members
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Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Gender equality, Effectiveness
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Future interventions to include activities on training and mentoring of CRM members on thematic issues aiming to strengthen the multisectoral approach and effective management of cases including women with disabilities UNDP 2023/12 Ongoing
Future interventions will include activities on raising awareness among women with disabilities and from disadvantaged communities, about accessible mechanisms to report violence and accessible services. UN Women 2023/12 Ongoing
Recommendation: Programmatic intervention. Focusing on media. Local journalists are not likely to be included in trainings, but also, they are more likely to change mentalities. Mentorship could be supported for young and local journalists, encourage exchanging of experiences between local and national journalists and involve reporters from different sectors. Focusing on the editorial level and promoting female leadership, reporting standards and constructive journalism were identified as entry points to support media. Create an enabling environment that promotes a stronger role of the Albanian Media Authority to ensure best and minimum standards is also important.
Management Response: UN agencies have already begun to work with the media in the context of existing programmatic intervention and will continue to do so, strengthening further their outreach to the media and women journalist in particular and increase their capacities to act as change agents. In addition, UN agencies will work closely with the Albanian media Authority to ensure that the broadcasting code is gender responsive.
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Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Gender equality, Impact
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
In the context of new programmatic interventions, include initiatives to engage the media including organizing the media forum at least once per quarter to increase knowledge and awareness of journalists on gender-responsive media reporting and best practices, pending availability of sufficient funds UN Women 2023/12 Ongoing
In future interventions, include, as part of the the 16 Days Campaign, outreach activities and work with media and PR companies to ensure airtime and coverage of the issue of VAW in Albania UNDP, UN Women and UNFPA 2023/12 Ongoing
In the context of new programming, include activities that will support the Albanian Audiovisual Agency to promote and monitor the revised Broadcasting Code for Audiovisual Media, which includes a special chapter on gender equality and non-discrimination, pending availability of sufficient funds UN Women 2023/12 Ongoing
Recommendation: Programmatic intervention. Gender indicators and data collection by different key institutions remains an important direction of work which requires further attention to support consolidation of data and information management systems that possibly speak to each other. There is a need for greater clarity on the prospects and possible interface between REVALB and NERSCS. The used indicators should be carefully reviewed with data requested by NERCS to avoid possible overlapping of data entry and keep in REVALB only the more specific data. REVALB data could also be better used to inform policymaking, including budgeting.
Management Response: UN Agencies will continue efforts to consolidate the support to strengthen gender disaggregated data using existing systems and support in complimenting these data for informed policy and decision-making processes.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Evidence, Data and statistics
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Efficiency, Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Organize a meeting with MoHSP representatives with the focus on the systematic use of REVALB by local and MoHSP users to ensure data can inform policies and decision-making processes UNDP 2023/12 Ongoing
Recommendation: Programmatic intervention. Further technical support is needed for the management of social services at the local level’s administrative units. Interventions could focus on fostering cooperation among public and non-public actors to provide services together as part of a consolidated network of local social services. While at the same time fostering intermunicipal cooperation and further consolidation of best practices. Wellbeing is an essential entry point for further support and dedicated work component. Working in DV there is a need for available and adequate psychosocial support and supervision for the professionals engaged both at the service delivery and management level. Resilience building activities should be integrated in future actions as a key element.
Management Response: UN Agencies will continue to consolidate work with and support to the public and non-public social care providers across municipalities
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development, National ownership
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Gender equality, Efficiency
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Support participation of social administrators in the capacity building of public and non-public service providers to the victims of GBV/DV at local level in coordination with other programmes working on social inclusion and protection UNDP 2023/12 Ongoing
In the context of the new JP, include activities that foster existing collaboration between CSOs which provide services to survivors of VAW and public service providers in selected municipalities and extend it on other areas of the country UN Women, UNDP 2023/12 Ongoing
Recommendation: Programmatic intervention. UN agencies need to engage and possibly take the lead in facilitating a strategic conversation to determine the feasibility of an exit strategy in the medium and longer term, together with other development partners active in the area, setting common indicators of success, assessing budget allocations and the financial gap, as well as the efficiently and ownership level of CRMs and services established through their support. An open strategic discussion across the agencies is necessary, and particularly at the higher level, on the over reliability on international support and engage jointly to increase the government ownership and commitment. Future programming should ensure a better coordination with EU and national accession priorities.
Management Response: UN Agencies will approach exit strategy through encouraging ownership of responsible public institutions in creating strong base for medium- and long-term sustainability of interventions and by fostering stronger coordination with the EU Delegation in the country. However, based on the current country context, UN Agencies do not believe that a discussion around the development of an exit strategy is timely considering the multiple areas of support that have been requested by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, including in the area of EVAW, to the international community including the UN Agencies implementing this Joint Programme. In addition, as highlighted in several reviews including the CEDAW Concluding Observations in 2016, the capacities of the national gender machinery remain limited from both financial and human resources perspective, which would hamper full ownership and handover of responsibilities to the national partners
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Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: National ownership
Organizational Priorities: Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Sustainability, Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
In the new JP, the Terms of Reference and Membership list of the Joint Project’s Steering Committee will include other relevant international partners, including representatives of the EU Delegation, and meetings will address importance of sustainability of programmatic interventions by strengthening ownership of responsible public authorities UNDP, UN Women, UNFPA 2023/12 Ongoing
Future programmatic work on VAW will continue to create synergies and coordination with other relevant interventions. UN Women 2023/12 Ongoing
Recommendation: Programmatic intervention. Addressing of all forms of violence beyond domestic violence. Review the current system to better plan the institutional mechanisms needed for effective prevention and addressing other forms of violence. Other mechanisms of sexual violence, early marriages, human trafficking in relation to early marriages and sexual exploitation as well as safe cities for ensuring basic standards across cities, are key priorities
Management Response: UN Agencies will focus their support to address in a holistic and comprehensive manner all forms of violence against women and girls in Albania, benefiting from the accumulated experience with the support provided in the DV area.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Oversight/governance
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities, Normative Support
UNEG Criteria: Gender equality, Relevance, Human Rights
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
In the future interventions, activities that would address other forms of violence against women and girls and GBV through improving normative framework and support services to victims of these forms of violence UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women 2023/12 Ongoing
Organize a meeting with MoHSP representatives with a keen focus on further consolidation of LILIUM Center support services provided to sexual violence victims, outside family relations as well as discuss plans of the MoHSP for scaling up LILIUM Centers in other regions in the country UNDP 2023/12 Ongoing
In the new joint programme include activities to scale up the good practices of establishing policy and procedures that safeguard women and men in the workplace in public and educational institutions from all forms of violence, harassment and sexual harassment UNDP, UN Women 2023/12 Ongoing
As part of future interventions, include advocacy initiatives with relevant institutions on assessing the legal framework to include prevention and protection from all forms of gender-based violence, beyond domestic violence UNDP, UN Women 2023/12 Ongoing
In the context of the new JP, include activities aiming to support to CSOs to strengthen their advocacy, monitoring role in addressing violence against women as well as and service provision to survivors of these forms of violence UN Women 2023/12 Ongoing