Management Response

: Nigeria
: 2023 - 2025 , Nigeria (CO)
: Mid-Term Evaluation of the Enhancing Gender-Responsive Security Operations and Community Dialogue Project in Nigeria (Phase II)
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: Nigeria
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The Midterm Evaluation of the Security Sector Reform (SSR) Project provided an understanding on the progress of the project and identified areas for improvement. While the office acknowledges the findings of the evaluation, it notes that the project had a late start, hence the delays at the midterm. However, the office is committed to ensuring project implementation is accelerated, while strengthening gender-responsive security sector institutions and enhancing women’s participation in security governance.

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Recommendation: The project team should expedite action to implement all the planned project activities to achieve all set targets and also to increase the budget absorption rate which is currently low.
Management Response: Delayed disbursement of project funds delayed project implementation. However, UN Women has already taken steps to accelerate implementation and improve financial delivery. Implementation was accelerated, and pending financial commitments were finalized before year-end 2024.
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Description:
Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Regular coordination meetings with implementing partners to ensure timely implementation of remaining activities UN Women 2025/05 Completed
Close monitoring of expenditures and project implementation by UN Women and implementing partners UN Women 2024/12 Completed
Recommendation: There is a need for the project team to consider integrating a livelihood component into the project to target women and girls who are survivors of SGBV. This is necessary to improve the economic conditions of the SGBV survivors, which is one factor that contributes to their vulnerability to SGBV.
Management Response: While the SSR project’s scope did not include livelihoods, the recommendation aligns with broader GEWE objectives and has been taken up in future programme design. For examples, livelihood component has been integrated into a concept note for the EU recently developed by the country office.
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Description:
Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Relevance, Impact
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Integration of a livelihood component into future WPS proposals and project designs. UN Women 2027/12 Initiated A livelihood component has been included in the EU concept note developed in 2024.
Recommendation: The UN Women project team should consider providing support and monitoring the implementation of the gender policies of security institutions and other commitments by the security institutions.
Management Response: Gender policy review and alignment have been completed and UN Women will sustain technical support through future project frameworks.
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Description:
Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Oversight/governance
Organizational Priorities: Normative Support
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Sustainability
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Review the operational plans of security sector institutions, including their monitoring and evaluation frameworks, to assess alignment with gender policies and commitments. UN Women 2025/01 Completed UN Women reviewed the operational plans and the M&E frameworks of the AFN, NPF and NSCDC. The operational plans were presented to the supervisory agencies in January 2025, and final revisions of the operational plans were completed.
Recommendation: The project team should prioritize the provision of technical and logistics support for the passage of the Draft Bills for the amendment of the Armed Forces Nigeria (AFN) Act, NPF Act by the National Assembly.
Management Response: UN Women and NILDS are actively supporting the legislative process through technical inputs and advocacy efforts. For example, NILDS is currently following up with sponsors of the Bills, and providing technical support to accelerate the process.
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Description:
Management Response Category: Not applicable
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Advocacy
Organizational Priorities: Normative Support, Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Relevance, Impact
Key Actions
Key Action not added.
Recommendation: The project team should consider putting measures in place to support the implementation of SAP when the review is completed for the three states.
Management Response: Implementation support is outside the current SSR II scope.
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Management Response Category: Rejected
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Not applicable
Key Actions
Key Action not added.
Recommendation: UN Women project team should consider continuing to build the capacity of security actors, NASS, members of the CSP, MOT, and WLOs given the limited time used for the capacity building programme under the SSR 2 project.
Management Response: This action will be considered during the design of future project proposals and is subject to resource availability and new programming cycles.
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Description:
Management Response Category: Not applicable
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Not applicable
Key Actions
Key Action not added.