Spotlight Initiative Final Evaluation

The Spotlight Initiative Final Evaluation assesses Spotlight Initiative’s overall performance, including its contribution to UN Reform. The evaluation focuses on the first phase of Spotlight Initiative from December 2017 to December 2023.

The specific objectives of the evaluation are:

• Assess how the Spotlight Initiative design and theory of change, including the whole systems approach and its six pillars, were structured to guide and influence programming including coherence, stakeholder participation and geographic scope, as well as flexibility and suitability to global, regional and national contexts
• Assess the extent to which management and operational systems were fit for purpose to efficiently support collective results at country, regional and global levels
• Assess the functionality of governance structures and the extent to which key stakeholders engaged in collaborative partnerships and decision-making
• Assess progress and results achieved, including the extent to which the Initiative contributed to transformative change
• Assess the extent to which the United Nations has demonstrated the ability to function as a collective to achieve the Initiative’s goals, including consideration of how UN reform supported the Initiative and how the Initiative impacted on the reform process
• Assess of the extent to which progress and results achieved are sustainable
• Identify lessons learned on how stakeholders can work within complex realms to design programmes to accelerate progress toward eliminating VAWG and other development challenges.

Read the report:

1. Spotlight Initiative Final Evaluation 

2. Spotlight Initiative Final Evaluation Annexes

3. Spotlight Initiative Value for Money Assessment

4. Spotlight Initiative Final Evaluation Summary