Country Programme (2007-2011/2012) evaluation - UNFPA Moldova

UNFPA’s work with CSOs aimed to put together each partners’ expertise and skills for the
implementation of public campaigns to raise awareness about different gender issues (e.g. domestic
violence and gender discrimination, as well as women’s situation or the father role in raising children,
etc.). A wide outreach had the hotline for victims of Domestic Violence (DV) implemented by La
Strada NGOin Moldova, as well as the renowned and moving exhibition called “Voiceless witnesses”
representing many female figures – victims of DV, made in wood or paper), carried out annually by
Gender-Centru (NGO in Chisinau) within the National campaign “16 Days against domestic violence”.
Also, UNFPA initiated for the first time in Moldova, in 2009, The Family Festival and the event
became so popular that it is now carried out annually, in partnership with governmental and nongovernmental
organizations, as well as other UN agencies and donors in Moldova.
Strategies for effectiveness
In Chapter 6.2 (Relevance),traditional strategies for programme implementation,such asadvocacy or the
use of knowledge as vehicles, whichcan be used to bring about expected results, have already been
discussed. Compared to many other donors in Moldova, UNFPA faces the special condition of having
very limited financial resources. This limitation increases pressure on UNFPA of “being resourceful
rather than having a lot of resources”. In order to be resourceful, to the understanding of this evaluation,
UNFPA has been quite creative in the implementation of a second set of strategies, which can be
understood as strategies which help to move the implementation vehicles (advocacy, use of knowledge,
etc.) forward in the required scope, even with limited resources. We consider that it is worthwhile to take
a look at these strategies. Concepts for these progress strategies, which help the delivered products and
services to be effective, are developed in Box 4.
Box 4: Concepts for effectiveness strategies
In order to respond comprehensively the question of a results achievement strategy we propose the use
of the following (non-official UN of UNFPA) evaluation criteria: 44
• Strategy forPreparing Change: this strategy includes activities foradvocacy for the necessary
attention that should be given to important issues or new concepts or technical approaches for
policy interventions
• Strategy forEnabling Change: this strategy includes activities forpreparing the necessary bases
of a change, such as the adjustment of legal or institutional frameworks
• Strategy for“Fuelling” Change (putting fuel into a process of): this strategy includes activities,
which allow an already initiated process of change to move forward. It is important to maintain
a distinction between the idea of “fuelling” change which refers more to inputs which keep this
process going and/or help it to improve its quality and more widely used/known concepts such
as driving change (the driver of policy change for example is expected to be the government)
44 These definitions are formulated by the author of this evaluation and cannot be found in literature.
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