Gender-responsive evaluation for a sustainable future for all

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...

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...

Evaluation fieldwork enables you to gather essential data to assess intersectional gender impacts. Similarly, the lessons learned from gender-responsive and intersectional evaluations highlight the importance of embedding gender equality throughout all aspects of fieldwork. This tool will allow you to reflect on how you can ensure that the process of data collection itself embodies gender equality and an intersectional approach...

When carrying out an assessment of environmental impacts, you should aim to go a step further and consider how environmental aspects or areas need to be analysed through a gender lens to obtain a more accurate picture of reality. This tool will help you identify the gender implications behind each environmental impact your intervention might have. This tool consists of...

Foresight is the study of potential future developments by anticipating emerging trends and risks to plan for those possibilities. Foresight involves an analysis to understand how the future may develop, how policymakers can shape that future and which decisions could stand across a range of futures. This tool will help you conduct a strategic foresight analysis as part of your...

This tool will help you in these two tasks: assessing the impacts of your intervention on gender equality, assessing to what extent the intervention mainstreamed gender in the design, implementation and monitoring process. Gender equality as a horizontal principle Applying gender equality as a horizontal principle means adopting a gender perspective throughout the policy or intervention cycle and treating gender...

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...

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...

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...