DRC Evaluations
 | Final Evaluation-Making Trade Work For Women in East Africa-December 2022Search for Common Ground (Search), with funding from TradeMark East Africa (TMEA), has implemented the “Making Trade Work for Women” project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for 24 months (December 2020-December 2022). This project aimed to contribute to the greater inclusion of women in trade as […] |
| Final Evaluation – Together for Security – December 2021From September 2019 to November 2021, Search implemented the project “Together For Security – Improving Civilian Protection through Civil Society in DRC,” which put Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) at the center of a strategy to drive constructive engagement and advocacy for security sector accountability. In the DRC, despite efforts by the authorities to hold accountable perpetrators of abuses among the police and the army, impunity prevails and further exacerbates the population’s mistrust of the security forces. In this context, this project supported local CSOs to develop and deepen relationships and trust with security forces, cooperate with them to work on the issue of accountability, and foster the sustainability of civil protection efforts through shifting norms linked to the roles of civilians and security forces around security issues, and inducing change in security forces’ behavior. Search provided CSOs with financial support, training, and advocacy and networking opportunities which reinforced their capacities to address human rights and security issues, and to engage with security forces. Concrete evidence of increased trust in the CSOs’ ability to collaborate with the PNC and influence security sector policies and practices related to accountability and human rights validates the relevance of the project’s focus on CSOs as agents of change. Through inclusive and participatory activities, the project brought together members from civil society and the PNC for the first time, resulting in increased mutual understanding. The project particularly improved the relationship between civil society and the PNC around acknowledging, preventing, addressing and denouncing security sector abuses, with some concrete examples of changes in the PNC’s practices. The project contributed to initiating a change of perception on the relevance of security issues for women and the role of women, with concrete examples of women’s empowerment in a conservative local context. |
| Final Evaluation – Let’s Beat Ebola Together – April 2021From February 2020 to February 2021, with support from the Canadian Government, Search for Common Ground implemented the program Let’s Beat Ebola Together in North Kivu, DRC. In the context of the worst Ebola outbreak ever recorded in the country, the project was designed to help contain the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic and reduce violent resistance and community distrust of the EVD response in North Kivu. The project especially focused on positively transforming relational capacities among communities themselves and between communities and medical and non-medical state actors around EVD; and improving community communication practices, especially women’s networks to counter rumors and misinformation related to the EVD response. Let’s Beat Ebola Together contributed to significant improvements in the population’s confidence in the response teams, with a level of trust growing from 27% at the baseline to 70% by the endline. This was accompanied by an improvement of community perceptions of their relationships with both medical and non-medical state actors (+17% point and +20% point respectively by the endline). Communities also reported increased positive engagement of local leaders and increased access to space for dialogue and collaboration with state actors in the response to the EVD. Finally, the project contributed to a significant involvement of young people and women as key actors in the fight against the EVD: the percentage of community members who reported that youth and women are engaged in the fight against the EVD increased by 44% points for youth and 40% points for women. |
| Evaluation Finale – A Dual Approach to Effective SSR – version francais – November 2020Cette étude est l’évaluation finale du projet “Lobi Mokolo Ya Sika II – Une double approche pour une RSS efficace”, qui a été mis en œuvre dans les provinces du Tanganyika et du Haut Katanga avec le soutien du Bureau des affaires africaines du Département d’État américain. L’objectif général du projet est d’améliorer la capacité des Forces armées de la République démocratique du Congo (FARDC) à protéger les populations civiles grâce à des relations civilo-militaires positives et à une meilleure compréhension et un meilleur respect des droits de l’homme et du droit international humanitaire. Le projet a été mis en œuvre entre octobre 2018 et octobre 2020. L’analyse d’impact montre une amélioration indéniable du comportement des FARDC et un progrès dans les relations entre civils et militaires. |
| Final Evaluation – A Dual Approach to Effective Security Sector Reform – November 2020This study is the final evaluation of the replication of the Lobi Mokolo Ya Sika (LMYS) II program in the provinces of Tanganyika and Haut Katanga with the support of the US State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs under the name “Lobi Mokolo Ya Sika II – A Dual Approach to an Effective SSR”. The overall goal of the project is to improve Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) capacity to protect civilian populations through positive civil-military relations and increased understanding of and respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law. The project was implemented between October 2018 and October 2020. The impact analysis shows an undeniable improvement in the behavior of the FARDC and a progress in civilian-military relations.
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| Final Evaluation – Guérissons Ensemble dans l’est de RDC – November 2020The Tupone Wote Pamoja Project (TWP) Phase II (Healing Together in Eastern DRC) was implemented by SFCG in DRC from March to October 2020 with funding from USAID/OFDA. The project supported the response to Ebola virus disease (EVD) by reducing social barriers and conflicts inherent in the treatment and referral of EVD patients, raising awareness of EVD transmission and prevention in affected communities, and increasing opportunities for sustained community involvement in the EVD response. The evaluation found an increased acceptance of VME treatments with a baseline value of 56% which rose to 91% at the end of the project. Also, 97.5% of the respondents noted that they observed changes in attitude or behavior in the practices of members of their communities with regard to the prevention and treatment of VME during the period of the TWP II project. |
| Final Evaluation – Lobi Mokolo Ya Sika – November 2018Lobi Mokolo Ya Sika is a project funded by the United Kingdom’s Development Fund for International Development (DFID) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from 2014 to 2017. Decades of armed conflict in DRC have strained relations between civilians and security forces. Despite previous efforts to integrate rebel groups into the military, still in 2018, MONUSCO reports 59% of human rights violations are perpetrated by State agents. The Security Sector Reform (SSR) in the DRC aims to build a Congolese Security Sector that can uphold human rights and who is accountable to civilian and civilian authorities. Search’s approach to SSR focuses on dialogue and collaboration between security forces and civilians to reinforce credibility, effectiveness, and accountability of Congolese security forces. The programme has contributed to a significant improvement in the perception of security forces from 69% to 88% in the final evaluation. Additionally, an increase in the perception that security force officials committing à violation would be investigated speaks to progress in the institutionalisation of accountability norms. |