| Overview : UN Women is grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations. UN Women work entails the elimination of discrimination against women and girls and promotion of equality between women and men. Placing women’s rights at the centre of all its efforts, UN Women also leads and coordinates the efforts of the United Nations System to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action.
In reaching its mandate, UN Women provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts in promotion of gender equality. UN Women builds effective partnerships with Civil Society as implementing partners in support of government’s effort to attain gender equality. UN Women also partners with private sector in objectives that are geared towards furtherance of gender equality.
In pursuit of its mandate, UN Women has partnered with The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) in a programme aimed at empowering women. The programme fits within the economic empowerment flagship area of UN Women and in TCCC’s 5 By 20 Strategy which aims to empower five million women by 2020. The UN Women-TCCC Partnership has culminated into three projects that are implemented in three countries; Egypt, Brazil and South Africa. In South Africa, Empowerment of Women Entrepreneurs’ (EWEP) is the project under this partnership.
This evaluation is a mid-term evaluation whose main purpose it to provide an overall assessment of the project with regard to progress made, what worked, and what did not work and recommend strategies that could enhance the overall results in the remaining life of the project. The evaluation will make recommendations that will be used to enhance results in the remaining timeframes of the project as well as inform current or future similar projects and/or partnerships. | 
