PBF end of project evaluation for project "protecting women and girls in South Sudan: Addressing GBV as catalyst for peace"

Overview

The Peace building fund project, “Protecting women and girls in South Sudan: Addressing gender based violence (GBV) as catalyst for peace”, is implemented by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (UN Women) since September 2018. The project is part of the United Nations Joint Programme (JP) on prevention of and addressing gender-based violence (2017-2020) supported by Peacebuilding fund. . The project runs for the period, September 2018- February 2021. The programme aims to address the alarming situation of GBV gender based violence in South Sudan through an integrated approach to achieve increase empowerment of women in South Sudan by strengthening prevention mechanisms for GBV and transforming harmful social norms into positive behavior that promotes gender equality in Bor, Aweil and Akobo. This entails, (i) provision of life-saving integrated services through One Stop Centres/ Family Protection Centres in Aweil and Akobo, (ii) strengthening women’s groups participation in local peace processes in Bor,Aweil and Akobo and increase civic engagement on GBV Prevention and response, (iii) increasing access to justice mechanisms for the GBV survivors, and (iv) transforming communities’ harmful social norms that contribute to GBV into positive norms that promote gender equality. The PBF project contract stipulates to conduct an end of project evaluation towards the end of the project. The end of the project evaluation will serve the following three main purposes: (i) demonstrate accountability to stakeholders on performance in achieving development results and on invested resources; (ii) support evidence-based decision making on the progress made against the results outlined; and (iii) contribute key lessons learned to the existing knowledge base on how to carry forward the gains made through the intervention.

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