Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)

It is important to keep a good balance between the subprojects or activities that are innovative but riskier and those that have firm disbursement schedules, so that the risk of TA implementation failure would be minimized. Subprojects to work with cities or municipalities turned out to be unpredictable, driven significantly by the political economy situation of the counterpart and are likely to face delays. Engaging in anal+Y661ytical work and stakeholder capacity development in such times have helped the TA disbursement going while using the knowledge product as a tool for evidence-based advocacy later.