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Netherlands 2008-11, 2012-15 1st NAP had wide scope (19 goals and 72 activities) while revision was narrowed to focus on a single overarching goal: ‘women’s leadership and political participation fragile states, conflict and areas and transition countries’ Revision shifted toward greater flexibility with detailed plan intentionally left out to enable responsiveness to changing environments Flexible approach partnered with ‘tailored priority actions’ developed by country focus groups, based on the geographic focus areas in the NAP Report to parliament More flexible revision paired with ‘stricter’ M&E framework that incorporates both quantitative measures of the results of collaboration between NAP signatories and qualitative M&E of the outcome and impact of the NAP using innovative participatory techniques First NAP had a lack of an appropriate evaluation mechanisms Even with more refined and complex M&E framework, confusion persists about what they should be measuring Strategic relationship between implementing agencies and research institutions requires clarification Only NAP in which civil society is a co-signatory: a total of 57 civil society signatories, at last count Good practice identified: cooperation between signatories should be flexible and ad-hoc CS shadow reports are formal part of monitoring mechanisms women and women’s organisations are central to Dutch approach to NAP implementation; they consider’ local women and women’s organisations in fragile states, conflict and post-conflict areas and transition countries as key stakeholders in the plan. They are the main ‘owners’ of the process’ Revision includes overview of commitments in financial and/or human resources across the four years of the NAP. Commitment of human resources is described by the number of hours given to 1325 activities
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