Individual management response to the recommendations Recommendation Response Explanation Action plan Timeframe One of the intended outcomes of the Fiji Women’s Recommendation 1 Agree Ongoing till June Fund (the Fund) is to become an independent entity The recently established Fiji 2020 by the end of June 2022. The Fund has developed its Women’s Fund should be used as own logo and branding to help establish an identity an opportunity to clarify the and will implement a strategy to achieve its Fund’s objectives with the independence. program’s stakeholders including The Fund’s communications strategy (due November how it operates across the 2017) will articulate how the Fund will engage broader Fiji Pacific Women stakeholders across the Fund’s activities and the program and the Pacific Women broader remit of the Pacific Women program. Support Unit. Recommendations from the Pacific Women Year Three evaluation provides further guidance on how Pacific Women is communicated at a country level. Recommendation Response Explanation Action plan Timeframe Recommendation 2 Agree Terms of reference of future advisers and technical Ongoing till June Sustainability measures and assistance will include explicit measures so that 2020 processes need to be built advisers have a local counterpart (s) to work with into the terms of reference of during their assignment. This will ensure transfer of short-term advisers and skills and knowledge to local counterparts and technical assistance, institutions. monitoring, evaluation and Partners will also be required to demonstrate learning projects sustainability measures for capacity development in their program proposals and implementation plans when they request funding for it.
Individual management response to the recommendations Recommendation Response Explanation Action plan Timeframe Recommendation 1 The recently established Fiji Women’s Fund should be used as an opportunity to clarify the Fund’s objectives with the program’s stakeholders including how it operates across the broader Fiji Pacific Women program and the Pacific Women Support Unit. Agree One of the intended outcomes of the Fiji Women’s Fund (the Fund) is to become an independent entity by the end of June 2022. The Fund has developed its own logo and branding to help establish an identity and will implement a strategy to achieve its independence. The Fund’s communications strategy (due November 2017) will articulate how the Fund will engage stakeholders across the Fund’s activities and the broader remit of the Pacific Women program. Recommendations from the Pacific Women Year Three evaluation provides further guidance on how Pacific Women is communicated at a country level. Ongoing till June 2020 Recommendation Response Explanation Action plan Timeframe Recommendation 2 Sustainability measures and processes need to be built into the terms of reference of short-term advisers and technical assistance, monitoring, evaluation and learning projects Agree Terms of reference of future advisers and technical assistance will include explicit measures so that advisers have a local counterpart (s) to work with during their assignment. This will ensure transfer of skills and knowledge to local counterparts and institutions. Partners will also be required to demonstrate sustainability measures for capacity development in their program proposals and implementation plans when they request funding for it. Ongoing till June 2020