Management Response

: Kenya
: 2023 - 2025 , Kenya (CO)
: End-line evaluation for the Italy-funded Let it not Happen Again Programme 2020 -2023
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: Kenya
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Overall, the findings of the evaluation, recommendations, good practices, and lessons learned are critical towards informing the EVAWG programming work of UN Women Kenya Country Office and the ESAR region. The findings of the evaluation are drawn from different stakeholders including Italy as the donor; Government of Kenya; UN Women; UN agencies; Implementing Partners; and the project beneficiaries. An Evaluation Reference Group confirmed and validated the findings of the study and the proposed recommendations. Instructively, the lessons learned, and the findings will inform project planning and implementation of related EVAWG and other programmes by the UN Women Kenya Country Office. More specifically, the new Italy project started in 2023 benefitted from the evaluation findings and recommendations.

: Approved
Recommendation: Increase investments in SGBV prevention interventions
Management Response: - Ensure full alignment of the recommendation outlined to the project phase II annual workplans and the result framework - Monitor the progress together with OHCHR and the donor Italy on bi-annual basis
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Description: SGBV is driven by negative social norms and behaviors. Transforming norms is complex and is an incremental process.
Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Advocacy
Organizational Priorities: Partnership, Operational activities, Youth engagement, Engaging men and boys
UNEG Criteria: Sustainability, Impact, Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Ensure full alignment of the recommendation outlined to the project phase II annual workplans and the result framework 2. Monitor the progress together with OHCHR and the donor Italy on bi-annual basis EVAWG Programme manager 2026/05 Ongoing
Recommendation: Create interventions that stimulate demand for SGBV services at this holds potential to showcase successful high-quality service delivery
Management Response: - Ensure full alignment of the recommendation outlined to the project phase II annual workplans and the result framework - Monitor the progress together with the donor Italy on bi-annual basis
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Description: Reducing stigma and addressing barriers increases awareness of support services and breaks the silence to violation
Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development, Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind
Organizational Priorities: Partnership, Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Impact, Sustainability, Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Ensure full alignment of the recommendation outlined to the project phase II annual workplans and the result framework 2. Monitor the progress together with the donor Italy on bi-annual basis EVAWG Programme Manager 2026/05 Ongoing
Recommendation: Sustaining and expanding investments in supporting duty bearers particularly justice actors
Management Response: - Ensure full alignment of the recommendation outlined to the project phase II annual workplans and the result framework - Monitor the progress together with the donor Italy on bi-annual basis
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Description: The project interventions have shown their potential to support SGBV survivors. Emerging protocols and structures demonstrated sustained infrastructure, reinforcing the necessity and effectiveness of the project
Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Partnership, Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Sustainability, Impact, Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Ensure full alignment of the recommendation outlined to the project phase II annual workplans and the result framework 2. Monitor the progress together with the donor Italy on bi-annual basis EVAWG Programme Manager 2026/05 Ongoing
Recommendation: Address the absence of harmonized GBV data
Management Response: - Ensure full alignment of the recommendation outlined to the project phase II annual workplans and the result framework - Monitor the progress together with the donor Italy on bi-annual basis
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Description: Critical to holistically capture SGBV drivers including understanding perpetrators profiles, the magnitude of the issue, its diverse and multiple forms including emerging technologically driven types, and its physical and psychosocial impacts. Data is key in grasping SGBV as a development concern revealing its economic and social costs/losses. Recognizing and addressing SGBV as a national disaster is imperative.
Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Knowledge management, National ownership, Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Partnership, Operational activities, Culture of results/RBM
UNEG Criteria: Impact, Human Rights, Sustainability, Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Ensure full alignment of the recommendation outlined to the project phase II annual workplans and the result framework 2. Monitor the progress together with the donor Italy on bi-annual basis EVAWG Programme Manager 2026/05 Ongoing
Recommendation: Integrating economic empowerment as a critical element for SGBV programming
Management Response: - Ensure full alignment of the recommendation outlined to the project phase II annual workplans and the result framework - Monitor the progress together with the donor Italy on bi-annual basis
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Description: - Vulnerability to SGBV is closely linked to poverty
Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Sustainability, Human Rights, Impact, Relevance, Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Ensure full alignment of the recommendation outlined to the project phase II annual workplans and the result framework 2. Monitor the progress together with the donor Italy on bi-annual basis EVAWG Programme Manager 2026/05 Ongoing
Recommendation: Psychosocial support for survivors and SGBV service providers
Management Response: - Ensure full alignment of the recommendation details to the project phase II annual workplans and the result framework - Monitor the progress together with the donor Italy on bi-annual basis
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Description: - Trauma of survivors is long term. Secondary trauma for providers can impedes quality of services
Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Human Rights, Sustainability, Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Ensure full alignment of the recommendation details to the project phase II annual workplans and the result framework 2. Monitor the progress together with the donor Italy on bi-annual basis EVAWG Programme Manager 2026/05 Ongoing
Recommendation: The project has reshaped of SGBV prevention and response needs to be scaled up for increased impact
Management Response: - Ensure full alignment of the recommendation outlined to the project phase II annual workplans and the result framework - Monitor the progress together with the donor Italy on bi-annual basis
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Description: - Interventions have resulted to key early impacts results, which have been transformative
Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind, Capacity development, National ownership, Knowledge management, Evidence, Data and statistics
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Sustainability, Human Rights, Impact, Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Ensure full alignment of the recommendation outlined to the project phase II annual workplans and the result framework 2. Monitor the progress together with the donor Italy on bi-annual basis EVAWG Programme Manager 2026/05 Ongoing