Violence is preventable
UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women & UNV
Asia-Pacific regional joint programme
for gender-based violence prevention
P4P project evaluation informs new stage
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On behalf of the four UN agencies - UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women and UNV - a forward-looking evaluation of the Partners for Prevention programme (2008 - 2013) was conducted by a team of external evaluators to assess the performance of this joint regional programme for gender-based violence prevention in Asia and the Pacific in achieving its objectives around capacity development, communication and research. The evaluation was conducted between November 2012 and May 2013. The evaluation included visits to countries where multiple project activities have taken place - Bangladesh, Cambodia, India – along with Skype and phone interviews with P4P partners in other countries in the region where P4P activities have taken place. Partners interviewed included global and regional networks related to gender-based violence prevention, national governments, civil society organizations, research and academic institutions, and UN regional and country offices. The evaluation assessed the performance of the P4P project implementation through specific questions under the following criteria: relevance, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability. The evaluation also documented lessons learned, examples of good practices and results from the first programme phase. The evaluation will inform the design of P4P’s strategic priorities for a new phase. Overall, the evaluation found the P4P programme has added significant value to UN partner agencies’ knowledge, awareness and acknowledgement of the issue and that P4P’s work has brought attention to the roles boys and men can – and must– play in GBV prevention: they can no longer only be portrayed as ‘the problem’, but also need to be included as part of ‘the solution’. The evaluation recommended implementation of a second phase of the P4P programme to test P4P’s theory of change and to translate the outputs of the first phase into new policies and programmes that are owned in-country and are sustainable. A concept note based on the recommendations is now being circulated among partners.
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