Evaluering
External evaluation of the East African Program for the Empowerment of Grassroots Women (EAGWEN)
NWF has a history of supporting organisations whose main focus is on vulnerable groups. With its prior linkage to COWA and GADECE and a preference by FOKUS for a programme approach, the EAGWEN programme was developed by NWF and its partners in Uganda and Kenya in 2009 with a common goal of empowering rural and urban grass-root women and young girls through networking and alliance building, community mobilisation, awareness raising, advocacy and capacity strengthening. The programme focuses on skills, knowledge and attitudes, capacity building and strengthening of partnership amongst the East African women organisations accessing FOKUS funds through the NWF.Within the EAGWEN programme, each of the organisations addresses issues within its comparative advantage but then takes on other issues that are of relevance to their beneficiary or target groups. The partners under the EAGWEN programme under ‘normal’ circumstances would not have had the opportunity to work with each other despite possible synergies.