The programme “Gender, race, ethnicity and poverty” coordinated regionally by the UNIFEM regional office for Brazil and Southern Cone (now UN WOMEN), aims at promoting systematically the incorporation of the dimension of gender, racial and ethnic equality in programmes and projects fighting poverty and inequalities. The programme, managed by UNIFEM Southern Cone, has the support of AECID as well the UNIFEM Headquarters. The programmes components are: Systematization of the concepts, analysis methodologies, poverty measurements and lessons learned Strengthening governmental and no governmental organizations Networking among organizations working on indigenous and black women’s rights as well as organizations working on public Read more [...]
Integral Security Programme: Mid Term Evaluation, Evolution of the Baseline and victimization Diagnostic
Place: Panama City
Panama CityIndicators and surveys in the region clearly show that violence and insecurity represent obstacles to Human Rights as well as for the generation of better development conditions, affecting also the democratic governance processes; in this context the Project proposes an inclusive and integral approach which should allow: working on the social prevention of violence, crime as well as the reduction of risk elements; Strengthening the institutional capacities of regional governments , at local, provincial and national level, for the design, implementation and evaluation of related public policies, programmes and projects. General and specific objectives: 1. Evaluation report applies the five Read more [...]
Appraisal of Consolidation Phase for Human Rights and Democracy Programme 2011-2012 (Pro-Democracia)
Place: Guatemala
ChisecThe Human Rights and Democracy programme is organized around two thematic components – anticorruption and access to justice. In this last phase it foresees the establishment of a limited number of strategic partnerships within each component, to increase the impact of the activities and to ease the harmonisation with other donors. Moreover, it aims at increasing the knowledge base on human rights and democracy and at developing better indicators as well as civil society’s capacity to monitor sectorial public policy. This mission is carried out in the framework of the phasing out of DANIDA’s assistance in the region and aims Read more [...]
Adjustment of the identification of the Justice support programme. – Pro Justicia
Place: Bolivia
La PazThe Justice support programme (Pro-Justicia in Spanish) is articulated in three components: 1. Improvement of the coverage of the justice system by supporting the establishment of 15 integrated services for justice; 2. Improvement of the performance and management of justice in Bolivia providing institutional support to key stakeholders such as the Ministry of Justice (including the Public Defence), the Prosecutor Office (including the Institute for Forensic Investigation) and the Council of Magistrates. 3. Strengthening accountability and demand by supporting the Ombudsman and the Network for Participation and Justice (NGOs network). The governmental agreement for the programme was signed in Read more [...]
Preparation of the Strategic Plan for the Penitentiary General Department
Place: Burundi
BujumburaThis mission carried out in the framework of the programme for Institutional and Operational support to the justice sector in Burundi, funded by Belgium, United Kingdom and Sweden; aims at empowering the Direction General for Penitentiary affairs (French acronym DGAP Direction Générale des Affaires Pénitentiaires) to accomplish its mission according to Burundian Law. In particular, by elaborating a plan that is to represent a structured, dynamic and operational reference framework for facilitating coordination among the various national and international stakeholders involved in the Penitentiary System. The technical assistance team has to facilitate DGAP’s staff in the assessment of the main Read more [...]
Final Evaluation of the “Justice Reform Support Program”
Place: Guatemala
ChisecThis mission is aimed at conducting the final evaluation of a five-years programme funded by the European Commission. Its general objective is to strengthen the capacity of the government to prevent, investigate, persecute and punish crime. The programme aims at empowering the system to effectively implement due process as guaranteed by the Political Constitution of the Guatemalan Republic and the main international covenants on Human Rights as well as at facilitating equal access to justice for the overall population. The programme focuses on the prevention of abuses in the use of pre-trial detention through the implementation of activities aimed at Read more [...]