Gender & Equity Issues

Gender & Equity Issues in Context Issues and Challenges Prioritization

Group 1 Key take-aways Wide consultation and passing of legislation of M&E gender and equity based policy to institutionalise M&E Creating awareness and advocacy – users government, parliamentarians Build individual capacity building from national and local levels Create culture for use of evaluation evidence , relationship between democracy and use of evidence Importance of knowledge management – to ensure continutity with change of government (knowledge continuity and effective knowledge transfer) and Dissemination of knowledge Including community in evaluation process (bottom-up approach in SDG evaluation) Consider evaluation action plan and management response (related to use and follow-up)

Gender and equity Consider the context of culture, traditions, norms and values of each community SGD as an opportunity to include gender and equity responsive Alignment of policies to gender and equity responsive Align the existing policies to address gender and equity issues, e.g. skills development for women National vs sub national

Challenges AG traditional systems does not respond to outcome monitoring Flexibility of policy to respond to changes Outcomes planning and budgeting create a demand for evaluation Examine the relationship to equity and equality