Evaluation of the Southern and Eastern Africa Regional Centre for ...

Table of ContentsPreface ...................................................................................................... 2Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................. 4Acronyms and Abbreviations ............................................................................................... 5Executive Summary ................................................................................................................ 61 Introduction ................................................................................................................... 121.1 Background and scope of the evaluation ..................................................... 121.2 The Southern and Eastern Africa Centre for Women’s law ..................... 131.2.1 Chronology and Organisation ....................................................................... 131.2.2 Programme documents................................................................................... 141.2.3 Summary of previous evaluations and mid-term reviews (MTRs)........... 152 Methodology and analytical framework .................................................................... 173 Findings: Impact of the SEARCWL .......................................................................... 223.1 General findings from the survey ................................................................. 223.2 Overall Survey Findings on Masters Course ............................................... 243.3 Women’s law as a discipline: Academic impact and relevance of theWomen’s Law Masters Programme .............................................................. 263.4 Individual impact ............................................................................................. 273.4.1 Personal impact: “I have learnt to argue about biases now” .................... 273.4.2 Career impact ................................................................................................... 283.5 Institutional impact ......................................................................................... 293.5.1 Graduates in institutional spaces in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Kenya....... 293.5.2 Limits to Impact .............................................................................................. 363.6 Role of the Centre beyond course and graduates ....................................... 373.6.1 Sufficiently harnessed? .................................................................................... 383.6.2 Strategy, communication and information .................................................. 394 Sustainability of the SEARCWL ................................................................................. 414.1 Financial Management .................................................................................... 414.1.1 Salaries ............................................................................................................... 424.1.2 Technical ........................................................................................................... 424.1.3 Efficiency .......................................................................................................... 434.2 Regional and academic sustainability ............................................................ 444.2.1 Regional board ................................................................................................. 444.2.2 Academic sustainability ................................................................................... 455 Conclusions and Recommendations .......................................................................... 49References .............................................................................................................................. 53Annex 1: List of Interviewees ............................................................................................ 55Annex 2: SWOT analysis ..................................................................................................... 58Annex 3: Zambia Field Work.............................................................................................. 60Annex 4: Survey Responses ................................................................................................. 62Annex 5: Examples from survey of graduate outputs ..................................................... 75Annex 6: Letter from Director of Human Resources, Zambian Police, toSEARCWL.833