Gender-responsive evaluation for a sustainable future for all

The 'Better regulation' toolbox outlines the main channels for communicating your evaluation results: a ‘ Have your say’ website, a dedicated web page, social media, presentations or videos, leaflets and various documents. Ad hoc products (reports, briefs, infographics, etc.) that focus on the gender aspects of the evaluation (its findings, lessons learned, recommendations, etc.) can be developed to specifically convey...

A plan for communicating the findings of your evaluation should be drafted in the early stages of the evaluation. The advantages of drafting a plan early are as follows. Identifying all relevant audiences for the evaluation results. Adopting the right language and medium to communicate your findings will help you get the messages across. Engaging with relevant stakeholders who may...

On a practical level, for evaluations conducted within the Commission, it can be challenging to report on the gender impacts because the format of evaluation reports is well defined in the 'Better regulation' toolbox and because staff working documents are meant to be standalone texts that summarise an overwhelming amount of information in a limited number of pages. Below you...

The findings of your evaluation will support the drafting of gender-responsive lessons learned that will inform future interventions. These lessons learned should be based on what worked well, so that future interventions can sustain positive gender impacts, as well as what can be improved, to prevent negative gender impacts in future. The first step is to develop recommendations to address...

This step will help you answer some questions about how the intervention has contributed to gender equality. Does your evaluation report include findings on the intervention’s impacts on gender equality? Did you include both the positive and negative impacts found? If needed, you can prioritise the most crucial gender impacts identified and cross-reference additional analysis and documentation presented in annexes...

This step provides tips on how to carry out data collection with gender equality in mind. Develop tools that interrogate gender and intersecting inequalities and power dynamics When developing data collection tools, it is useful to include specific questions to explore participants’ views and experiences of gender equality, intersecting inequalities and power dynamics in the context under evaluation. It is...

Question and address your own assumptions and biases Throughout the process of designing and carrying out fieldwork, the evaluation team should consider what assumptions and biases may be influencing their decisions and approach They, and should provide a space (e.g. in team meetings) for these to be openly explored and addressed. Include local expertise Where the evaluation team is unfamiliar...

Once the main categories of environmental effects of your intervention have been identified, you can analyse each of them with the help of the following checklists, which are grouped according to European Green Deal policy objective 2 (‘A greener, low carbon Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate adaptation and risk...

Foresight analysis is used to inform policymaking. In evaluations, strategic foresight can help examine the relevance of an intervention. It can test possible policy options against future conditions (future-proofing) to determine if and these should be modified to meet policy objectives and advance gender equality. The following tips will help you analyse and report on the implications of gender-responsive strategic...

This step provides guiding tips and questions to support you in conducting a gender-responsive strategic foresight for your evaluation. The questions can be used as a jumping-off point and are not comprehensive. You can find more information in the EIGE brief on gender-responsive strategic foresight. Horizon scanning What emerging trends affect gender equality in the policy area under evaluation? How...

Every foresight method should take a gender and intersectional perspective. Examine the possible foresight methods below and decide which is the most appropriate type to use in your evaluation. Horizon scanning Horizon scanning involves systematically reviewing new or emerging trends to gather intelligence about the future. This approach examines the relevance of an intervention in the context of changes that...

The following quiz will help you identify whether or not the intervention adopted a gender perspective by highlighting a select few methods and tools available for mainstreaming gender. Was a gender analysis conducted (ex ante) to inform the design and budget of the intervention? Yes No The intervention you are evaluating probably did use gender mainstreaming methods and tools. This...