Management Response

: Multi-Country Office for India, Bhutan, Maldives, and Sri Lanka
: 2012 - 2013 , Multi-Country Office for India, Bhutan, Maldives, and Sri Lanka (MCO)
: Mid Term Evaluation of the Anti Human Traffiking programme
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: Multi-Country Office for India, Bhutan, Maldives, and Sri Lanka
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: Approved
Recommendation: A platform, virtual and/or real, should be created where all the implementing partners can interact with one another in order to share their experiences as it will help to replicate successes as well as combat common challenges.
Management Response: Accepted
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018), Peace and security (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development, Knowledge management
Organizational Priorities: UN Coordination
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Efficiency, Relevance
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Responsible Deadline Status Comments
An annual partners meeting to be organized to share their experiences on anti-trafficking prevention at the district level. EVAW Specialist 2014/03 Overdue-Initiated
Recommendation: Stakeholders are required to work in unison so that the issue of trafficking is tackled at all levels including that of the community, governance, law and justice. As a result, greater collaboration between these stakeholders can be initiated and strengthened through regular meetings organized at common platforms among them.
Management Response: Accepted
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018), Peace and security (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Advocacy, Capacity development, Internal coordination and communication
Organizational Priorities: UN Coordination, Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Gender equality
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An annual partners meeting to be organized to share their experiences on anti-trafficking prevention at the district level. UN Women programme unit to hold regular meetings with various stakeholders to bring them together for collaborated effort on preventing trafficking. EVAW Unit 2014/03 Overdue-Initiated
Recommendation: Use of training modules with a common agenda and curriculum should be encouraged since the vulnerabilities of women and girls and the risks faced by them are common across the programme panchayats,. This will ensure a common understanding of trafficking and other related issues across the various stakeholders of programme panchayats; in addition to an understanding of trafficking with respect to the unique social and cultural contexts as appropriate.
Management Response: NOT ACCEPTED
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018), Peace and security (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development, Advocacy, Knowledge management
Organizational Priorities: UN Coordination, Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Relevance, Efficiency, Effectiveness
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The socio-economic context within which trafficking takes place differs in all six programme districts. Therefore, the unit feels that common agenda and curriculum would not be appropriate across programme panchyats. EVAW Unit 2014/06 No Longer Applicable The socio-economic context within which trafficking takes place differs in all six programme districts. Therefore, the unit feels that common agenda and curriculum would not be appropriate across programme panchyats.
Recommendation: Collaboration with agricultural universities should be initiated and further strengthened; and more institutions and organizations should be identified and approached. The increased use of new technologies as a result of these collaborations should also be recorded by implementing partners. The expertise of these universities/organizations can be leveraged in developing and enhancing the skills of women and girls from programme villages to ensure dissemination of knowledge pertaining to advancements in science and technology. Further, channels for developing knowledge of marketing and sale of product/produce should also be explored to ensure scalability and sustainability of the income generation activities.
Management Response: ACCEPTED
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Knowledge management, Advocacy, Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Sustainability, Impact
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Collaborations with agricultural universities have been developed. The programme team will ensure that expertise from these universities can be leveraged to develop the skills of girls and women. EVAW Unit 2014/06 Overdue-Initiated
Recommendation: There is a need to ensure better documentation and recording of data under the programme. The implementing partners should be encouraged to prepare reports based on the programme logical framework, to ensure that the reports are standardized and that it is possible to measure the programme progress against pre-defined targets. Additionally, they should document the composition of ATVCs, the number of cases in which ATVCs intercede, and the number of cases in which they successfully intervene.
Management Response: ACCEPTED
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Knowledge management, Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Culture of results/RBM
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Efficiency, Relevance
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A system will be established for collating data from the field on a quarterly basis. Standard reporting formats have been shared with the implementing partners. EVAW and M&E Units 2013/12 Completed
Recommendation: A number of schemes like MGNREGA, NRLM/Aajeevika, and Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna should be leveraged ensuring their accessibility to women and girls from programme villages. In addition, advocacy for provision of the schemes should be taken up in partnership with the local governance and justice systems. Additionally, the number of women and girls accessing government schemes and programmes should be recorded by implementing partners.
Management Response: Accepted
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Advocacy, Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Youth engagement, Partnership, UN Coordination
UNEG Criteria: Relevance, Efficiency, Effectiveness, Sustainability
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Women and girls in the programme districts will be trained to increase their access to standard government schemes such as MGNREGA, NRLM/Aajeevika, and Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna. EVAW Unit and implementing partners 2014/06 Overdue-Not Initiated
Recommendation: More trainings and information dissemination workshops/events should be made available for GRB at the local governance level. Sharing the idea of GRB at PRI level could build the capacity of the PRIs to address gender and trafficking concerns by allocating funds for women and viewing schemes and programmes through a gender lens. There is also a need to improve focus on women and girls from marginalized sections of society in the annual implementation plan of PRIs. Members of Gram Sabhas could also be capacitated to conduct social audit of programmes with a gender perspective.
Management Response: Accepted
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018), Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development, Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable, Youth engagement, Culture of results/RBM, Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Gender equality
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Training on GRB and Social Audits will be provided to PRIs. EVAW and GRB Units 2014/06 Overdue-Not Initiated
Recommendation: The implementing partners should sensitize members of Nyaya Panchayats and Nyaya Samitis on women?s human right issues especially on gender justice, as envisaged by the programme. There are various other justice and law enforcement platforms at the local level to address issues of gender and trafficking. These include AHTUs, police authorities, Lok Adalats, Child Welfare Department, SJPU, and JJBs. However, each of these justice systems functions independently and lacks convergence with the programme.
Management Response: Accepted
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind, Advocacy, Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: UN Coordination
UNEG Criteria: Gender equality, Human Rights
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Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Modules on gender justice to be included in the panchayat level training. Implementing partners 2014/06 Overdue-Not Initiated
Recommendation: To ensure a multi-sectoral approach to prevent trafficking across programme states, UN Women could commission setting up of Centres of Action in multiple programme locations.
Management Response: Accepted
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Advocacy, Knowledge management, Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: UN Coordination, Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Efficiency, Relevance, Gender equality
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Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Centre of Action on a multi-sectoral approach to prevent trafficking across programme states has been commissioned. EVAW Unit 2013/12 Completed
Recommendation: The monitoring and evaluation of the programme should be performed on a more regular basis than it has been so far through quarterly field visits to each of the programme panchayats by the UN Women programme team, and quarterly workshops between UN Women and implementing partners to discuss the progress made and the challenges being faced on the ground.
Management Response: Partially Accepted
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Advocacy, Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable, Culture of results/RBM
UNEG Criteria: Efficiency, Gender equality
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Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Annual monitoring visits to each programme panchayats will be undertaken by UN Women programme staff and M&E officer. Annual workshop will be organized between UN Women and implementing partners to discuss progress and lessons learned. EVAW and M&E Units 2014/06 Overdue-Initiated