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Gender-responsive evaluation for a sustainable future for all

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    • How can gender-responsive evaluations contribute to a sustainable future for all?
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    • Tool 1. Assessing the gender evaluability of the intervention
      • Step 1. Understanding gender impacts
      • Step 2. When should you analyse gender impacts?
      • Step 3. How to move forward with a gender-responsive evaluation
    • Tool 2. Attracting institutional support and engagement
      • Step 1. Aligning with the EU and/or national policy frameworks and getting the basics right using this toolkit
      • Step 2. Securing support and resources
    • End-of-phase checklist : Before you start the evaluation
    • Tool 3. Establishing the evaluation team
      • Step 1. Checklist for establishing an evaluation team
      • Step 2. Advice on how to develop an evaluation Terms of Reference considering gender expertise
    • Tool 4. Defining the evaluation criteria, questions and indicators
      • Step 1. Constructing a gender-responsive intervention logic
      • Step 2. Setting evaluation criteria
      • Step 3. Defining evaluation (sub-) questions
      • Step 4. Designing indicators
      • Step 5. Preparing the evaluation matrix
    • Tool 5. Designing the methodological approach and tools
      • Step 1. Adopting an ecofeminist and transformative approach to your evaluation
      • Step 2. Ensuring your evaluation methods are gender-responsive
      • Step 3. Conducting a gender-responsive stakeholder analysis
    • Tool 6. Evaluating gender equality as a horizontal principle
      • Step 1. What were the gender impacts of the intervention?
      • Step 2. Did the intervention adopt a gender perspective?
    • Tool 7. Using gender-responsive strategic foresight in your evaluation
      • Step 1. Planning gender-responsive strategic foresight
      • Step 2. Implementing gender-responsive strategic foresight
      • Step 3. Analysing the implications of gender-responsive strategic foresight and using its results
    • Tool 8. Identifying the gender implications of environmental impacts
      • Step 1. Analysing the environmental impacts through a gender lens
        • Specific objective vii. Enhancing the protection and preservation of nature, biodiversity and green infrastructure, including in urban areas, and reducing all forms of pollution
        • Specific objective v. Promoting access to water and sustainable water management
        • Specific objective iv. Promoting climate change adaptation, risk prevention and disaster resilience
        • Specific objectives i. Promoting energy efficiency measures and ii. Promoting renewable energies
        • Specific objective vi. Promoting the transition to a circular economy and resource efficient economy
    • End-of-phase checklist: Preparing the evaluation strategy
    • Tool 9. Embedding gender equality throughout your fieldwork
      • Step 1. How to embed gender equality throughout the fieldwork period – practical advice
      • Step 2. How to carry out data collection – specific guidance
    • End-of-phase checklist: Conducting the evaluation
    • Tool 10. Drafting the evaluation report and preparing lessons learned
      • Step 1. Reporting on the gender impacts of the evaluated intervention
      • Step 2. Preparing the recommendations and lessons learned
      • Step 3. Drafting the evaluation report
    • Tool 11. Dissemination of evaluation findings and follow-up actions
      • Step 1. Draft a plan for dissemination and capacity development for social change
      • Step 2. Use various channels and media to communicate your evaluation’s findings
      • Step 3. Inform the decision-making process and facilitate positive changes
      • Step 4. Monitor and evaluate the implementation of the recommendations
    • Final checklist: Report writing and dissemination of evaluation findings
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  • Tool 11: Dissemination of evaluation findings and follow-up actions

    In line with the 'Better regulation' toolbox, [1] disseminating evaluation findings to a wide audience and ensuring that the results inform the decision-making process are of utmost importance. This tool will support you in disseminating the findings of your evaluation using various communication channels to inform decision-making, and monitoring and evaluating the implementation of recommendations. This tool consists of four...

  • Tool 10: Drafting the evaluation report and preparing lessons learned

    This tool will support you in preparing evaluation reports that incorporate a gender perspective, account for the gender impacts found during the evaluation process and prepare gender-responsive recommendations and lessons learned for future interventions. The tool will be useful for those in the Commission services who are drafting an evaluation report in the form of a staff working document, as...

  • Tool 5: Designing the methodological approach and tools

    Design your methodological approach and tools to include a gender equality perspective. If you are commissioning an evaluation, you can use this tool to verify that gender considerations are integrated in the tender specifications, evaluation methods and stakeholder analysis. This tool consists of three steps: adopting an ecofeminist and transformative approach to your evaluation, ensuring your evaluation methods are gender-responsive...

  • Tool 4: Defining the evaluation criteria, questions and indicators

    This tool will help the evaluation team design an evaluation framework that includes gender-responsive evaluation criteria, questions and indicators. It also supports the commissioners of evaluations in verifying that gender equality is well integrated in the evaluation framework. This tool consists of five steps: constructing a gender-responsive intervention logic, setting evaluation criteria, defining evaluation (sub-) questions, designing indicators, preparing the...

  • Tool 3: Establishing the evaluation team

    This tool will quide you include gender expertise in your evaluation team. This expertise could come from your team or from external contractors. To ensure that your intervention reaches both women and men in all their diversity, seek to incorporate a range of views, knowledge, and perspectives. This tool consists of two steps: checklist for establishing an evaluation team, advice...

  • Tool 2: Attracting institutional support and engagement

    The first step for a successful gender-responsive evaluation is mobilising institutional support and engaging your colleagues in this task. You need to make sure you have enough resources, both financial and human, to carry out a gender-responsive evaluation. Engage the right people to make sure you get buy-in for your evaluation approach and the findings of your work. This tool...

  • Tool 1: Assessing the gender evaluability of the intervention

    This tool will help you understand gender impacts: what they are and how to examine your intervention for them. When you identify an impact on gender equality in your intervention, you will have to carry out further analysis. This tool consists of three steps: understanding gender impacts, k nowing when to analyse gender impacts in your evaluation, h ow to...

  • Who is this toolkit for?

    This toolkit is for: public administration staff; policy officers; monitoring and evaluation officers; and, policymakers in the EU and EU Member States This toolkit is useful for commissioners of evaluations and evaluators. The toolkit will also benefit: those who manage, implement or evaluate funds at the EU and Member State levels, as well as at the national, regional and local...

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