Gender Dimensions of Made-in-Africa Evaluation

Presented by,Dede Bedu-Addo,

Coordinator, GMEF.

Dimensions of Gender cut across Made-In-Africa Evaluation

There are many similarities in their core principles and fundamental/ intrinsic values, eg.:

• Participation

• Voice

• Rights of the Vulnerable

• Culture

• Ownership

• Sustainability

• Empowerment,

• Etc.

Meaning of Gender

- Social Construct or socially given attributes differentiating men and women;

- It defines the way in which women and men interact with each other;

- It is Culture-specific - defined by societal beliefs, norms, customs and practices

- Differentiates between roles, responsibilities and obligations between girls, boys, men and women

- It is about promoting relationships between girls, boys, men and women for mutual support and better development for all

Meaning of Gender cont’d…• Factors such as class (social position, wealth),

age and education influence gender issues.

• Gender issues are major factors in defining and determining men’s and women’s respective access to power and resources.

• An understanding of gender roles and relationships helps determine the specific needs of men, women, boys and girls

Various Dimensions of Gender

Gender

Age

Environment

Urban,

Rural

Socio-economic

status

Religion

Ethnicity Physical/Mental

impairment

MULTIDIMENSIONAL

Basic Principles for Gender Mainstreaming

Analysis /understanding of the history, context, rational, ideology and implications of gender equality in society/organisations at all levels.

Ensuring that adequate accountability mechanisms for monitoring progress are established

Ensuring the identification of issues and problems across all area(s) so that gender differences and disparities can be diagnosed and addressed

Basic Principles Cont’d

Sex-Disaggregated Information and Data Collection and Management

Clear Political Will and allocation of adequate resources for mainstreaming

Identifying that gender is not an “individual or women’s issue” but societal, with implications for men as well as women.

Organizational/institutional structures and mechanisms need to be established to enhance gender mainstreaming

Research byAfrica Gender and Development Evaluators Network (AGDEN/Ford Foundation, 2010)

observes that …

“Although concepts/notions of Gender & Development, the Rights-Based Approach

and Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation are often mentioned in

strategic plans, they were rarely implemented.”

Advantages of Gender Analysis in Made-In-Africa Evaluation

• Helps generate scientific/objective information

• Helps provide baseline for comparison and tracking of progress

• Justifies and rationalisesinterventions

• Breaks down the public/private divide and brings the private into the public sphere for better understanding

• Looks at how the dynamics within the household interrelate with dynamics at international, state, market and community level

The SDG Agenda: No-one left behind for

(the Made-In-Africa Evaluation)

Technical Assistance on Evaluating SDGs: Leave No One Behind

EvalGender+ Network together with EvalPartners, IOCE and

UN Women

SDGs

No one left behind!

2. Comparing the SDGs and the MDGs

The SDGs promote MORE:

• Universality

• Sustainability

• Complementarities among all SDGs

• Cross-cutting SDGs

• Gender

• Reducing inequality

• Gender: focus on underlying causes of inequality –

not just measuring targets

• A normative focus (based on social norms)

Comparing SDGs and MDGs [continued]

• Moving beyond aggregate indicators on gender and reducing inequality:

• Inequality within and between countries

• Barriers to achieving gender equality

• Understanding the complex mechanisms of social control

• “Were any groups left behind?”

• Focus on gaps between most vulnerable and the poor

• Evaluations will be designed, implemented and used in a participatory way

ResourcesAGDEN website

AfrEA website

Sustainable Development Goals https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs

Evaluating SDGs with an equity-focused and gender-responsive lens

http://www.mymande.org/evalgender/SDGs

Evaluating SDGs with an equity-focused and gender-responsive lens

http://mymande.org/evalgender/evaluating-sdgs-equity-focused-and-gender-responsive-lens

UN Development Group 2015 “Guidance note: On supporting the tailoring of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to national contexts”. Version 1.