Sample & Ongoing Projects
General Overview
FDR experts developed monitoring and evaluation frameworks through an integrated gender lens with a focus on the intersectionality of gender, race, disability, religion, ethnicity for the US State Department Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Office, USAID, Global Affairs Canada, International Organization for Migration, United Nations Evaluations Office/United Nations Development Program, Caribbean Development Bank, International Development Research Centre, World Vision USA, City of Ottawa, among others.
FDR experts have a sound knowledge of policies and regulations of USAID and of other international donors including US Department of Labor (USDOL), US State Department, and the European Union. FDR experts have dealt with project management, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of regional multi country programs and projects as well as with design and analysis of economic and social policies focused on women and girls.
FDR experts worked with numerous national/local partners including Ministries of Health, faith-based organizations, civil society organizations, community-based organizations, local unions, and people networks/associations. Majority of these projects have focused on women, girls, and adolescents, including technical areas such as Maternal and Child Health, Cervical Cancer, Sexual and Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), and Human Rights. FDR experts were a part of the global push to increase availability of gender and sex disaggregated data from facility-based programs and community supported programs. FDR experts supported programs that have worked with police and military forces offering HIV/AIDS services to the uniformed forces and working with them – together with provincial administrations, the judiciary, paralegals, community-based organizations to ensure effective referrals and comprehensive packages of care for survivors of SGBV. FDR experts supported the Capacity Strengthening to Support Provision of High Quality and Evidence Based HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment Services in East Africa.
FDR experts have work experience in Central and Latin America El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, Bolivia, Belize, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Paraguay, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela. Key subject matters include institutional strengthening, workforce development, youth at risk, child labor, worst forms of child labor, forced labor, crime and violence prevention, education, social vulnerability, market labor, private sector development, trade and investment, regional trade facilitation and economic integration, compliance of free trade agreements provisions in Central America, central and local governance development and decentralization, regulatory policy, public conditional transfers, public financial management, gender equity and inclusion, and gender–based violence (GBV). FDR experts were engaged in the development of the baseline for OXFAM QC focused on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Bolivia and Honduras. FDR experts worked for initiatives funded by USAID, US Department of State, US Department of Labor, International Labour Organization (ILO), among others.
FDR experts worked with OXFAM QC in developing the baseline for improving sexual and reproductive rights for women and girls in Jordan and Palestine. FDR experts developed a strategy for North Syria in collaboration with UNICEF and focused on health and nutrition interventions to strengthen capacities of stakeholders, including women and girls.
Ongoing Projects
FDR and our El Salvador-based research team will lead baseline and final evaluations for the Carter Center project funded by INL and will ensure that The Carter Center’s evaluation approach will be rigorous, particularly in regard to changes in the restrictive environment, and the results will indicate which interventions are having effects traceable to the relevant efforts and where tactics or approaches require adjustment.
This research focuses on the goals, processes, and results of the project being currently implemented by the Kwame Nkrumah Institute of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana, one of the leading universities in Africa. The Responsible Artificial Intelligence Lab (RAIL) project at KNUST in Ghana is implemented in a consortium with major universities in Senegal and Cape Verde as well as with non-for profit and corporate partners. Foundation for Data and Research (FDR) Ghana is member of this consortium responsible for the gender and evaluation components.
RAIL is funded by the governments of Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Germany and aims to train and develop skills of the next generation of workforce in West Africa to work with AI to enable young women, in particular, to take advantage of the new workstyles that it fosters. Specific focus is also placed on boosting numbers of female researchers and providing an enabling environment for engineering certifications, gender friendly curriculum that can accommodate needs of female researchers with family and children. The claim is that RAIL will be a Maker Space to provide support for entrepreneurial nurturing and creation of spin-offs.
The Carter Center has historically demonstrated a strong commitment to instituting innovative programming for women and girls. As a critical next step, The Carter Center sought to strengthen its work with women and girls by adapting a more expansive approach toward gender and inclusion. In consideration of the important role that intersectional identity politics and gender issues play in human rights, democracy, conflict resolution, and rule of law, The Carter Center retained FDR as a consultant to conduct an assessment to improve its gender programming and seek new innovations for improving gender and inclusion approach in programming.
@Ana Androsik, CEO @FDR with @Zara Mahdi, Director, Public Relations Director and Gender Based Violence Senior Expert @ Oliver Chapman, Senior Expert, Gender and Intersectionality in London, UK - May, 2023
Sample Projects
Funded by the U.S. Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (J/TIP)
FDR experts conducted a final impact evaluation for World Vision that focused on outcomes of the two-year project “Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons for Lesotho,” which was funded by the U.S. Department of State (DOS) Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (J/TIP) and while having the overall goal of contributing to the reduction in incidents of human trafficking and the mitigation of its impact through collaboration with government and civil society within and outside the boarders of Lesotho, aimed at the following objectives:
- To support the Government of Lesotho (GOL) and civil society in the implementation of the Anti-TIP Act and the National Plan of Action (NPA) prohibiting all forms of human trafficking
2. To develop the capacity of originating communities to effectively prevent trafficking and protection victims
Moreover, it targeted to evaluate the contributions that the project outputs had made to achieve the outcomes. This evaluation identified the most important lessons learned and good practices that have emerged in relation to the direct achievement of project results.
The purpose of this final evaluation was to determine the effectiveness and relevance of the project operations, and the sustainability of the project results. There were three main sources of information for the end of project evaluation. First, a cross-section of stakeholders that was selected for consultation through informal stakeholder mapping for the primary data collection. The cross-section included WV project staff, national and local government officials (included and not limited to Ministry of Health, judges, etc.), WV Lesotho Area Development Program (ADP) managers, civil society partners (Beautiful Dream Society and Women in Law of South Africa NGOs), community partners (e.g. ADP Committees, local level paralegal teams, Chiefs of villages, etc.), international agencies (UNICEF) and direct beneficiaries of the project interventions (children, parents and care takers, teachers). Second, the review of documents was conducted as the secondary source data collection, including project related documents, government programs and reports, international organizations relevant reports and review of advocacy materials as well as training materials, certificates, etc. Third, face to face interviews were conducted using pre-tested household survey questionnaires with the community members to assess change/impact that has been brought by the project in their households as well as the community at large.
Funder: World Vision USA (WV)
World Vision aimed at the assessment of performance of savings groups (SGs) and the economic impacts they had on women and girls in the most vulnerable communities of Sierra Leone during and after Ebola response. This study was exploratory in nature and focused on the following objectives:
- To assess the extent to which SGs had impacted the lives of women and children as well as girls, their families, and communities during and Ebola outbreak in World Vision Program areas.
- To assess the relevance of coping mechanisms developed during the Ebola outbreak
- To assess the impact SGs have had on the family dynamics, specifically, the roles of men and women in the household.
FDR experts programmed and conducted a household survey data analysis with using gender scale to assess the Savings Groups performance during Ebola outbreak and post-Ebola outbreak periods as well as developed a Research Methods Capacity Building Training Materials.
