The Gender workstream supports partner countries to diagnose, design and institutionalise gender-responsive evaluation across national M&E systems, with a particular focus on planning and budgeting processes.
Diagnostic Study of the Gender Responsiveness of the National Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation System (NIMES) Kenya - Final Report
November 2019 Introduction As part of Twende Mbele's efforts to institutionalise equity and strengthen national monitoring and evaluation systems, in partnership with the Kenyan Government through the Monitoring and Evaluation Directorate, it was agreed to conduct a ‘ Diagnostic Study of the Gender Responsiveness…
Impact Report 2021
This Impact Report highlights how the Twende Mbele peer learning and sharing approach has been successful in trialing innovative ideas and approaches. Where; parliamentary support has been successful at regional level, with individual parliaments learning from each other’s best practices. partner countries contin…
Leadership Spaces for Inclusive and Transformative MEL Practice - Brief
March 2022 This brief is based on a discussion paper titled Interrogating Leadership Paradigms using a Public Sector lens: creating horizontal leadership spaces for inclusive and transformative Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning practice. The brief starts from the premise that monitoring, evaluation and learning…
Developing Indicators With an Equity Lens in Ghana - Guideline
March 2022 The purpose of this guideline is to serve as a tool for indicator development through an equity lens, that should be used alongside existing policies, plans and guidelines in the public sector. This guideline serves as part of a series of guidelines through the Twende Mbele partnership programme that s…
Interrogating Leadership Paradigms Using a Public Sector lens: Creating Horizontal Leadership Spaces for Inclusive and Transformative Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Practice
Discussion Paper March 2022 This discussion paper starts from the premise that monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) as a performance measurement practice also has the potential to be a dynamic tool that can facilitate and support socio-economic transformation. This can only happen, however, if there are two …
What is Meant by Transforming Evaluation for Africa?
March 2021 In light of the recent global ‘Black lives Matter’ protests, we are increasing seeing a movement for the complete overhaul of racist systems that reinforce and recreate the types actions that result in global inequalities and discrimination based on race, gender and sexual orientation. The protesters w…
Diagnostic Study of the Gender Responsiveness of the National Integrated M&E System (Kenya)
Findings on how the National Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation System in Kenya responds to gender
Country Gender Indicator Framework
November 2020 The Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (DWYPD) is the custodian and steward of gender policy in South Africa. Its primary role is to develop policy and ensure that the country’s gender priorities, including those arising from national and international commitments, are mainstre…
Diagnostic of the gender responsiveness of national monitoring and evaluation system: Benin, Uganda & South Africa
Synthesis Report Diagnostic of Gender Responsivness NES Teams of national experts were commissioned in Benin, Uganda and South Africa to carry out a country diagnostic of the gender responsiveness of National Monitoring and evaluation system which aims to: (i) Use the AGDEN gender diagnostic tool to review Nation…
Diagnostic study of the gender responsiveness of the national integrated monitoring and evaluation system (nimes) Kenya
Over the past few years, there has been an increase in the number of developing countries that either have, or are in the process of developing, a national evaluation policy and/or system (NEPS), (Bamberger et 2014). While acknowledging that there is growing interest and increase in the number of governments adop…
An African approach for gauging the gender effectiveness of national m&e systems: An IDEV article
M&E Systems The importance of strengthening national evaluation systems is gaining traction with more states investing in developing the evaluation capacity of their institutions and systems for improved program delivery. Embedded in that approach, is the development of homegrown evaluation tools to conduct count…
Diagnostic of the Gender Responsiveness of the National Monitoring and Evaluation System
October 2018 Purposes Use the AGDEN gender diagnostic tool to Review National Monitoring and Evaluation System (NMES). Identify potential barriers and enablers to having a well-functioning gender responsive M&E system at country level. Identify and develop concrete strategies (or recommendations) to strengthen ge…
Note Pour le Renforcement du Niveau de Sensibilite Genre du Guide d'Evaluation
Juillet 2020 Le Bénin, qui s’est donné, comme objectif fondamental l’instauration d’une gouvernance publique saine et participative, accorde de plus en plus d’importance à l’évaluation qui a été érigée au rang des priorités nationales. Ainsi, l’institutionnalisation de l’évaluation au Bénin, engagée, depuis, 2007…
Gender-Responsiveness Evaluation
June 2019 Gender-responsive evaluation is important as a means for building strong systems for generating and using confirmation to improve the work that government departments do to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment. Gender-responsive evaluation is a powerful tool for achieving the transformative a…
Equity-focused, gender-responsive evidence: a blind spot in VNR reporting
Equity-focused, gender-responsive evidence: a blind spot in VNR reporting
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Gender responsiveness diagnostic report of national monitoring and evaluation systems in Uganda
Gender Responsiveness of NES Although progress has been made by governments to drive change by fostering gender equality and the rights of women, the extent of gender responsiveness of national monitoring and evaluation systems is still a subject of investigation. It is against this background that the study seek…
Gender responsiveness of the national evaluation system of Benin: Results and Recommendations
January 2018 A consultant was recruited to finalise the diagnostic study of the national monitoring and evaluation system (NMES) of Benin. The objective of the activity is to improve the quality of the diagnostic report of the responsiveness of Benin’s national monitoring and evaluation s…
Guide Méthodologique d'Evaluation Sensible au Genre
Juillet 2020 Après l’adoption successive de la Politique Nationale d’Évaluation et l’élaboration d’un Guide méthodologique national d’évaluation des politiques publiques qui constituent deux cadres de référence pour la promotion de la culture de l’évaluation, il a été décidé de renforcer les moyens techniques des…
Diagnostic of the Gender Responsiveness the National Monitoring and Evaluation System
Diagnostic of the Gender Responsiveness the National Monitoring and Evaluation System
Monitoring and Evaluation Gender-Responsiveness Training
August 2019 A gender responsive national monitoring and evaluation system refers to how different strategies, tools and policies can affect men and women differently and in so doing, improve their effectiveness. This system also includes how monitoring systems are designed and operated, as well as utilising myria…
Equity-focused and Gender-responsive Evidence in the Parliamentary Context
June 2019 Gender is defined as the social construction of being female or male and the relationships between women, men, girls and boys based on society construction. Gender is socially constructed and culture determines roles associated with being male or female. (Men provide for the home women care for family m…
Diagnostic study on the sensitivity of the national monitoring and evaluation system of Benin in relation to gender
French Report Despite a legal and institutional framework favorable to the promotion of gender equality, gender mainstreaming in Benin's monitoring and evaluation system remains room for improvement in many respects. The national evaluation policy adopted in 2012 makes almost no provision for integrating gender e…
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Equity-focused, gender-responsive evidence: a blind spot in VNR reporting
February 2019 In terms of living no one behind, localization of SDGs is part of the Uganda SDG roadmap and Office of the Prime Minister through the coordination M&E framework is working closely with local governments to make SDGs known to all citizens in the simplest way. Uganda through the National Standard Indi…
South African National Evaluation Plan
Policy Report The current NEP covers a total of 30 evaluations planned for the next five financial years (2020-2025). The scope of the present plan, unlike previous versions, extends to Municipalities and State Owned Enterprises (SOEs). Our evaluation focus areas therefore, includes a District-based Service Deliv…
Diagnostic study on the gender-responsiveness of the national evaluation system: South Africa
Report This assessment aims to describe the level of gender-responsiveness in key policies and processes, as well as understand the extent to which there is gender disaggregation in the data that is collected to monitor and evaluate progress through the 14 Outcomes of the Medium Term Stra…
Ghana Charts the Future of Evidence-Based Development
By Amanda Deuchars Learning Coordinator, Twende Mbele How Ghana Evaluation Week is transforming M&E from compliance to strategic governance, and what it means for African peer learning Ghana has moved beyond rhetoric. The inaugural Ghana Evaluation Week, held in Accra this Octobe…
AfrEA Anniversary 2025 , Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
AfrEA 25 Years Anniversary, 16-18 June 2025, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia On the 16 - 18 June 2025, non-government organisations, governments and international organisations joined African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) to celebrate 25 years of their existence. The celebration of 25 yea…
Reflections on the Sixth Edition of the Beninese Evaluation Days
By Florence Mbabazi Directorate of Monitoring Evaluation and Inspection in the Office of the Prime Minister, Uganda Benin Evaluation days is a biennial M&E event and the 2023 6 th edition took place from the 4 th to 6 th October at Golden Tulip Hotel le Diplomate in Cotonou, the …
Reflections on DPME’s Capacity Development Initiatives since the inception of South Africa’s national evaluation system
By Nox Chitepo & Seirah Ngcobo Director at the Department of Planning Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) recognized from the inception of its national evaluation system (NES) in 2011 that there is limited evaluation capac…
Pamoja Newsletter – February 2020 Autumn Edition
Welcome to the latest edition of the Pamoja newsletter. After almost two years in the making, we are particularly proud and excited to report that both Benin and Uganda have adapted the Management Performance Assessment Tool (MPAT), with Benin being the first to pilot the Tool. R…
gLOCAL Evaluation Week: Gender Responsiveness Webinar
This webinar brought together practitioners, researchers and experts who have been involved in working on building gender into country level M&E systems. They shared key insights on barriers and enablers to engendering M&E systems by describing the level of gender-responsiveness …