 NGO GCN should develop and implement a result-based advocacy strategy on political empowerment of women over and above providing electoral support to female candidates.  The programme should have a clear strategy to engage political parties at national and local levels. In future, there is a need to target women wings of political parties to intensify the campaign within the parties and promote quotas for women in the political parties participating in the election.  Implementing partners should be allocated districts or constituencies in relation to capacity levels and also within areas in which they normally work or operate. NGO GCN should conduct due diligence and mapping of implementing partners.  The programme performance matrix should include relevant indicators, baselines, means of verifying and targets for measuring changes at outcome and output level.  NGO GCN should develop and implement a capacity building programme for political parties on gender analysis, gender mainstreaming and approaches to women’s political empowerment;  Implementing agencies should work with the grass root politicians (constituency governors and district governors) as they are the “primary gate keepers” to which candidate to contest and be supported. In essence they hold the political power of endorsing and introducing “winning and popular candidates” to the district and regional level.  NGO GCN should find ways of improving on timely implementation of activities and should ensure that capacity building interventions, especially trainings are indepth and timely to allow development of practical skills.  As a strategy, the programme should engage more community based media houses in view of the observation that the media task force set concentrated in areas that were easily accessible at the expense of other areas in terms of coverage. 88