Evaluation of the impact of the support to Karibu Tanzania Organization in the Education Sector

The evaluation’s purpose is to review Sweden’s present support to Women’s Rights Organisations (WROs) in line with the current Strategy for Sweden’s Development Cooperation with Bangladesh 2021-2025. The focus is to assess the Embassy’s support to women’s and girls’ rights through their WRO portfolio, assessing what has worked well for the organisations, and what more could be done by Sida to support the continued development of a vibrant civil society in Bangladesh, ever mindful of the general decline in freedom of speech and ongoing backlash on human rights and gender equality. The evaluation’s overall observation is that the organisations have achieved the outcomes intended, bringing the organisations and their partners on a sound, gender-transformative path. The lives of the women engaged in the work of all four partners have changed fundamentally. Because of this, the Embassy and Sida are recommended to continue ensuring a sound space of operation for the successful WROs through core funding and to
maintain a lead dialogue role towards their CSO and funding cooperation partners alike. The recommendations furthermore propose ways to accelerate a broader reach for added social norms change.

Gender equality is a human right, a prerequisite and driver for poverty reduction
and sustainable development. Gender equality is achieved when women and
men, girls and boys and non-binary persons have equal rights, life prospects and
opportunities, and the same power to shape their own lives and contribute
to society. As one of the main thematic priorities for Swedish development
cooperation, a gender equality perspective shall permeate all of Sida’s work, at all
levels and at all stages throughout preparation, implementation, monitoring and
evaluation. Sida applies a gender transformative approach which seeks to change
unequal power relations through tackling the root causes of gender inequality.