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Evaluation Services for Canada’s Growth that works for Everyone/ Women’s Economic Empowerment (GTWE/WEE) Portfolio

Evaluation of the UN Women’s Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) for Sustainable Growth & Sectoral Evaluation of Canada’s Contribution to Advancing WEE in Egypt

Description

The end of project evaluation of the UN Women’s Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth project, known in Egypt as “Rabeha,” as well as a broader sectoral evaluation of Canada’s contribution to advancing WEE in Egypt (i.e. the WEE portfolio) is part of the Growth that Works for Everyone (GTWE) / Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls priority areas under Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP). Canada is advancing women’s economic empowerment in Egypt through targeted initiatives such as the Rabeha, OWAP and SWEEt projects (total budget CAD $19.8 M). These projects focus on addressing the key barriers facing women, particularly in rural and underserved areas, by enhancing access to finance, access to markets, access to business development services, and capacity building at the institutional and individual level. Together, these Canada-funded projects align with Egypt’s 2030 National Strategy for Women’s Empowerment.

Development Projects Evaluation Services, commissioned by the Global Affairs Canada (GAC), through the Development Section of the Embassy of Canada to Egypt (CAIRO/DEV), are:

  • Women’s Economic Empowerment for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth in Egypt (Rabeha) by UN Women/UNIDO: improving the operating environment for businesses, and promoting a culture of entrepreneurship for women in high growth sectors such as agribusiness and textiles. The target governorates include Fayoum, Giza, Cairo. Alexandria, Beheira, Beni Suef, and Minya. Through value chain analysis, the sectors of focus are
    • palm dates and derivatives,
    • ICT,
    • medicinal and aromatic plants, and
    • Handicrafts with a focus on textiles.
  • Opportunities for Women in Agribusiness Project (OWAP) by Alinea International: advancing women’s economic empowerment by establishing women-led agribusinesses and partnerships with private sector companies in two governorates in Upper Egypt (Minya and Beni Suef).
  • Strengthening Women Entrepreneurs in Egypt (SWEEt) by Plan International Canada: providing women and adolescent girls in the governorate of Giza with greater understanding of their economic rights and increasing their ability to make effective choices and transform them into desired outcomes.

The Rabeha project, along with two other projects, OWAP and SWEEt , comprise Canada’s GTWE/WEE portfolio in Egypt. All three projects are nearing the end of their lifecycle, and the evaluation services look at if, and how, they have contributed to desirable development outcomes in order to build an evidence base for future programming.

To help inform Canada’s ongoing development assistance in Egypt, it is important to capture lessons from WEE efforts. The evaluation highlights what worked and what did not, identifies best practices, and document lessons learned for the wider community. Knowledge products consolidate results, cross-cutting themes and lessons learned, translated into Arabic and disseminated to national and international partners.

Services

  • Project-level theory-based utilization-focused evaluation
  • Sectoral theory-based utilization-focused evaluation on Canada’s GTWE/WEE Portfolio using the Portfolio Logic Model
  • Portfolio-level Theory of Change (ToC) Refinement including informing a set of context-specific performance indicators
  • Primary and Secondary Data Collection (Desk review, 10 FGDs, 29 KIIs)
  • In-Country Debrief Sessions
  • Evaluation Infographic
  • Progress Meetings