Management Response

: Uganda
: 2015 - 2015 , Uganda (CO)
: Peace Building and Enhancing Protection systems (Gender Promotion Initiative) Final Evaluation
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Uganda

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The recommendations fall under two categories each having a different approach to implementation. The first category relates to a successor programme and the implementation of the proposed actions is contingent on having such a Joint Programme in place, which is not the case. The second category apply to any Peace & Security Project/Programme of the Country Office and are implementable in the short term. The Country Office accepts five of the recommendations, and partially accepts one.
: Approved
Recommendation: There is need to build in the design of a similar programme capacity of indigent women to demand their rights. A similar programme should explore organizing the women into mixed groups (former female abductees and other women in the communities) to achieve two objectives: raise awareness on rights of women formerly abducted by LRA and catalyze support of other local institutions – peace committees, CPCs etc.; and (ii) act as a process for fostering community cohesion with female ex-returnees and thus their social inclusion through developing bridging bonds with strong ties
Management Response: This is very valid and the UN Women SN/AWP 2016 – 2020 particularly includes aspects of building the agency of Women to claim their rights across all the impact Areas
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Peace and security (SPs before 2018), Leadership and political participation (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind, Advocacy
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Impact, Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
A successor programme to provide a specific result area (Output) that explicitly targets the agency of indigent women All Participating UN Organizations (PUNOs) that will be part of the Joint programme 2017/06 Overdue-Initiated A similar UN Women Humanitarian programme places specific emphasis on building the agency of South Sudanese Women, particularly on their socio-economic rights
Recommendation: UN agencies in joint programmes and implementing complimentary activities need to consider targeting the same geographical areas to achieve holistic support and therefore increase chances of achieving impact. This could entail: (1) partners of agencies working in similar sub-counties and villages; (2) agencies can synch their activities in a complimentary manner. E.g. entry meeting into a district/community by Implementing Partners could be the same; (3) partners could have coordination meetings in the district
Management Response: This is ideally right and the UNDAF maps out the targets districts of agency activities. However, co-locating activities at a sub-county and village level may be impractical.
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Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Internal coordination and communication
Organizational Priorities: Partnership, UN Coordination
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Impact, Efficiency
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
A future joint programme to look into the complementarity of the PUNOs’ interventions, but at the level of a district PUNOs 2017/06 Overdue-Initiated This is partly addressed by the Mapping exercise of all Agency activities in the various districts planned under the RCO's office
Include the chiefdom committees as part of the capacity building of the traditional justice systems UN Women 2016/07 Overdue-Initiated The chiefdom committees are included in the UN Women interventions on Women land rights
Recommendation: When training to improve mediation at traditional courts it is not only important to train chiefs. Chiefdom committees should also be included as they conduct the actual hearing and recording of cases. The evaluation shows that training chiefs alone does not lead to changing mediation practices
Management Response: The recommendation is very relevant and the capacity building of the traditional leaders under the WEE and EVAWG strategies of the SN/AWP 2016 - 2020 should be broad enough to include the committee members
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Peace and security (SPs before 2018), Leadership and political participation (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development, Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Sustainability
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Include the chiefdom committees as part of the capacity building of the traditional justice systems UN Women 2016/07 Overdue-Initiated The chiefdom committees are included in the UN Women interventions on Women land rights
Recommendation: Effective psychosocial support is long term and similar programmes (whether government or external donor funded) should be structured to provide such kind of support. Counselling should also be provided to the family of the women formerly associated with LRA to ensure full integration for them and their children
Management Response: Very valid though the inclusion of the family will require more resources per unit. UN Women provides a very comprehensive and structured long-term psychosocial support service to refugee women in Adjumani
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Peace and security (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities, Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Sustainability
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Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Include family members for counselling in the next humanitarian intervention. UN Women 2017/01 Overdue-Initiated A similar UN Women Humanitarian programme providing psychosocial support includes family members (particularly the children)
Recommendation: Embrace alternatives to building peace for marginalized groups – concept of bridging social networks and social capital. Peace building initiatives targeting marginalized women should aim to support the building of strong bridging bonds between the marginalized groups and the mainstream community members than homogenous groupings of the marginalized groups. The advantage is that this process facilitates the establishment of social capital which ultimately contributes to social cohesion and enhancing reconciliation and peace
Management Response: The recommendation is very valid and relevant to the work of UN Women on P&S, WEE and EVAWG
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Peace and security (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Target the host communities of the respective settlements in Adjumani as beneficiaries under the CERF project UN Women 2017/01 Overdue-Initiated
Include returnees among the beneficiary groups of the WEE interventions in Acholi sub-region UN Women 2016/10 Overdue-Initiated The target beneficiary women groups in the Acholi sub-region under the UN Women WEE interventions include returnees
Recommendation: The evaluation shows that the GPI is a programme that has potential to achieve results at low cost. It is therefore imperative for UN agencies to mainstream activities of the GPI in their annual work programmes and five year country strategies to effectively support peace building and recovery in Acholi sub-region
Management Response: The mainstreaming of P&S work in Agency AWPs within the UNDAF framework is a sustainable approach to ensuring that the benefits of the GPI are carried forward.
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Peace and security (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development, Internal coordination and communication
Organizational Priorities: UN Coordination
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Impact, Sustainability
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Integrate the ongoing capacity building of women and girls, Chiefdom leaders, Local Council Courts, and Area Land committees, and training of on various aspects of women and girls’ land and property rights in UN Women’s SN/AWP 2016 – 2020 UN Women 2016/07 Overdue-Initiated All these groups are targeted under UN Women's WEE intervention on land and property rights