Uganda Evaluation - United Nations Girls' Education Initiative

1.3 Scope of the evaluation
The current report documents how UNGEI has interacted with and contributed to education processes
in Uganda, and how this has impacted – or is expected to impact – on girls’ education and gender
equality in education. Thus, the Uganda evaluation will:
Document what key changes have taken place in girls’ education and gender equality
throughout time in the four outcome areas of UNGEI (gender responsiveness of education
policies, policy on re‐entry to school for pregnant girls, good practices and effective
partnership);
Identify where and in what ways UNGEI has made a specific contribution or enhanced the
contribution of others;
Provide evidence of the outputs and outcomes of these interventions; and
Assess the relevance, effectiveness and outcomes of UNGEI interventions as well as their
sustainability.
The evaluation also maps the UNGEI partnership, its governance and administrative structure, its
operational mechanism, and its contributions to gender‐responsive changes in the education sector. The
evaluation focused on answering the following questions:
What key changes have taken place in Uganda with respect to girls’ education and gender
equality since UNGEI was formed, with a focus on the four outcome areas of UNGEI?
In what ways did UNGEI contribute to these changes or enhance the contribution of others?
What achievements were made possible as a result of the partnerships?
How relevant were UNGEI interventions to the context and gender issues in the education
sector?
How effective have UNGEI interventions been in promoting changes?
Were these results achieved in an economical manner (efficiency in the use of resources –
human, financial, etc.)?
What have been the likely impacts of these changes?
Are these changes sustainable over time?
Does Uganda’s coordination mechanism work in a manner that enhances the effectiveness of
UNGEI?
The evaluation will seek to determine if UNGEI has added value to results in girls’ education in Uganda.
Since it is always difficult to attribute results to only one source of inputs, actions or actors, the
evaluation will try, to the extent possible, to outline the contribution of UNGEI to overall results through
a contribution analysis. This analysis focuses on identifying changes that took place, and how different
inputs contributed to the changes. The logical steps to determine the contribution of UNGEI are as
follows:
What was the context like before UNGEI – what was happening at level ‘zero’ (before UNGEI)?
What changed in the context over time (from before UNGEI until today)?
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