Evaluation Report ADDRESSING SEXUAL BRIBERY EXPERIENCED BY FEMALE HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS, INCLUDING MILITARY WIDOWS AND WAR WIDOWS IN SRI LANKA Final Evaluation Report Addressing Sexual Bribery Experienced by Female Heads of Households, including Military Widows and War Widows in Sri Lanka to Enable Resilience and Sustained Peace Final Evaluation Report End-Project Evaluation Addressing Sexual Bribery Experienced by Female Heads of Households, including Military Widows and War Widows in Sri Lanka to Enable Resilience and Sustained Peace November 2018-September 2020 Melissa Andrade Costa Nadhiya Najab International Consultant National Consultant December 2020 2 Final Evaluation Report Addressing Sexual Bribery Experienced by Female Heads of Households, including Military Widows and War Widows in Sri Lanka to Enable Resilience and Sustained Peace Table of Contents LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ............................................................................................................... iii Acknowledgements .......................................................................................................................iv Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................... v Evaluation background .................................................................................................................. v Object of the evaluation................................................................................................................ v Evaluation Purpose, Objective and Scope .....................................................................................vi Evaluation Methodology ...............................................................................................................vi Recommendations ...................................................................................................................... 1. Evaluation background .......................................................................................................... 1 1. Object of the evaluation ........................................................................................................ 4 2. Evaluation Purpose, Objectives and Scope ........................................................................... 9 3. Evaluation Methodology ..................................................................................................... 11 3.1. Overall methodological approach and design......................................................... 11 3.2. Data Collection ........................................................................................................ 12 3.3. Special considerations related to COVID-19 and the phone survey ....................... 13 3.4. Sampling .................................................................................................................. 14 4. Ethics of the evaluation ....................................................................................................... 15 6.1. Quality assurance and Evaluation Management ............................................................. 17 6.2. Limitations of the evaluation ........................................................................................... 17 5. Evaluation Findings .............................................................................................................. 18 5.1. Evaluation Criteria: Relevance .................................................................................... 18 5.2. Evaluation Criteria: Effectiveness ................................................................................ 23 5.3. Evaluation Criteria: Efficiency ..................................................................................... 34 5.4. Evaluation Criteria: Impact .......................................................................................... 38 5.5. Evaluation Criteria: Sustainability ............................................................................... 40 5.6. Evaluation Criteria: Gender Equality and Human Rights ............................................ 43 6. Lessons Learned .................................................................................................................. 45 7. Conclusions .......................................................................................................................... 46 8. Recommendations ............................................................................................................... 49 Appendix A. Rapid Assessment ................................................................................................... 55 Appendix B. Evaluation Matrix .................................................................................................... 58 Appendix C. Documents Reviewed ............................................................................................. 69 Appendix D. Evaluation instruments ........................................................................................... 71 i Final Evaluation Report Addressing Sexual Bribery Experienced by Female Heads of Households, including Military Widows and War Widows in Sri Lanka to Enable Resilience and Sustained Peace Appendix E. Demographic characteristics of survey respondents .............................................. 99 Appendix F. Stakeholder Analysis ............................................................................................. 101 Appendix G. List of people interviewed .................................................................................... 104 Appendix H. Table of contents of the training manual for Paralegal services to the field officers and development officers attached to the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs ............ 106 Appendix I. Gender Results Effectiveness Scale ........................................................................ 107 Appendix J. Updated Results Framework ................................................................................. 108 Appendix K - Term of Reference ............................................................................................... 117 Table 1. Evaluation users and use ................................................................................................. 9 Table 2. Evaluation Questions ..................................................................................................... 10 Table 3. Gender Responsive Index to evaluate the Project Addressing Sexual Bribery Experienced by Female Heads of Households, including Military Widows and War Widows in Sri Lanka to Enable Resilience and Sustained Peace ................................................................... 11 Table 4. Number of stakeholders interviewed by type and sex .................................................. 13 Table 5. Limitations of the evaluation and mitigation strategies ............................................... 17 Table 6. Level of satisfaction with trainings ................................................................................ 30 Table 7. Stakeholders involved in the project and their roles .................................................. 102 Table 8. Gender Results Effectiveness Scale used in UNDP´s evaluation of GEWE (2015). ...... 107 ii Final Evaluation Report Addressing Sexual Bribery Experienced by Female Heads of Households, including Military Widows and War Widows in Sri Lanka to Enable Resilience and Sustained Peace LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS CEJ Centre for Equality and Justice CIABOC Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption CSO Civil Society Organization DAC Development Assistance Committee FHH Female Heads of Households GoSL Government of Sri Lanka ISB Industrial Service Bureau OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development PBF Peacebuilding Fund PBSO UN Peacebuilding Support Office RPK Rajarata Praja Kendraya TR Term of Reference UNDAF United Nations Development Assistance Framework UNDP United Nations Development Programme UN United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women Women WRC Women’s Resource Centre iii Final Evaluation Report Addressing Sexual Bribery Experienced by Female Heads of Households, including Military Widows and War Widows in Sri Lanka to Enable Resilience and Sustained Peace Acknowledgements This evaluation would not have been possible without the valuable contributions of the following individuals: • Ramaaya Salgado, Programme Analyst/Country Focal Point, UN Women Sri Lanka • Lihini Ratwatte, Project Officer, UN Women Sri Lanka • Bimali Ameresekere, Gender Specialist, United Nations Development Programme • Upul Ranaweera, Monitoring & Reporting Officer, UN Women • Ana Guedes Mesquita, Programme officer, Peacebuilding Support Office • Jood Wasel A Alharth, Associate Peacebuilding Officer, Peacebuilding Support Office • Kyle Jacques, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Peacebuilding Support Office We also wish to express our gratitude to all implementing partners of the project, the Centre for Equality and Justice, the local civil society partners, the authorities and staff members of the Government of Sri Lanka and the private partners who have kindly taken their valuable time to share with the evaluation team their views on the project. It is our wish that this evaluation is useful to help think through interventions on gender equality for the various agencies of the UN, the Government of Sri Lanka and