Final Evaluation | Addressing GBV Against Syrian Refugee Women in the KRI

Women for Women International (WfWI), along with its partner organization, Warvin Foundation for Women’s Issues, worked to support women affected by conflict including the Syrian refugees, members of the host community and IDPs in the areas of Erbil and Sulaymaniyah governorates of the KRI. Their project “Addressing Violence Against Syrian Refugee women in the Kurdistan region of Northern Iraq “had an activity timeline from March 1st, 2017 to February 29th, 2020. The goal of this project was for refugee women in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) to be empowered, self-reliant and safer from GBV in their communities. Trust was contracted to perform the final evaluation to review the project cycle from design, through implementation and to close out the project.

The evaluation was based on the OECD/DAC criteria. With the aim to ensure triangulation between sources to increase the validity and accuracy of the findings across the scope of implementation, while ensuring the design accounted for the sensitivity of the relevant issues surrounding violence against women and girls in the crisis context, Trust developed a mixed-methods design of data collection. The initial methodology design planned to include Focus GroupDiscussions (FGDs) with beneficiaries, but the COVID-19 outbreak in KRI and ensuing restrictions meant that this data was instead collected through KIIs (KIIs). Keeping in mind the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, immediate steps were taken to monitor and mitigate the impact and the potential risk to any data collectors or respondents. The sample for the KIIs was 44 and male champions, project staff and the key community stakeholders were interviewed to allow for a nuanced examination of issues. Surveys were used as a part of the quantitative methodology and 86 beneficiaries were interviewed. The data collected from the surveys and the KIIs allowed insights regarding the impact and implementation of programming throughout the timeline of the project activity.

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