Integrating Human Rights and Gender Equality in Evaluation –Towards UNEG Guidance Update title Presentation by UNEG HR/GE Task Force

The UNEG Task Force on Human Rights and Gender Created by UNEG in 2007 AGM Co-chaired by UN Women and OHCHR Over the years, supported by the following UN agencies: UN Women, OHCHR, UNDP, UNICEF, OIOS, UN-DESA, UNCDF, UNV, UNCTAD, FAO, UNESCO, UNFPA, IFAD, UNEP, OCHA, ILO, UNIDO Addressing the two complementary dimensions of Human Rights and Gender Equality together Mandated to produce guidance on how to incorporate the Human Rights and Gender Equality dimensions into UN evaluations Keynotes: The United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) is a professional network that brings together the units responsible for evaluation in the UN system and aims to strengthen the objectivity, effectiveness and visibility of the evaluation function across the UN system and to advocate the importance of evaluation for learning, decision making and accountability. UNEG has over 40 members. In 2007, UNEG established a Task Force on Human Rights and Gender Equality to help strengthen the HR&GE perspective in the management and conduct of evaluations ; The taskforce is meant to support the mainstreaming of both the human rights and gender equality perspectives in evaluation practice, in a view to take advantage of synergies and overlap between these mutually reinforcing concepts, with the understanding that gender equality is both a human right, but also a dimension in its own right. The TF has been working to develop guidance on how to integrate human rights and gender equality dimensions in evaluations, in an effort to increase system-wide collaboration on evaluation and harmonize methodologies, norms, standards and cycles across evaluation offices and attend to identified gaps in existing guidance.

Integrating Human Rights and Gender Equality in Evaluation –Towards UNEG Guidance The practical HRGE handbook: a user-friendly and synthetic guidebook, on how to include human rights and gender equality in evaluations A comprehensive Guidance Document is forthcoming (2012) Primarily designed for: project and programme evaluations and, use by evaluation and M&E stakeholders in the UN system Keynotes: A comprehensive Guidance Document on how to integrate Human Rights and Gender Equality Perspectives in UN Evaluations is forthcoming (2012). Since 2011, a practical handbook is already available to provide a range of options to ensure that both human rights and gender equality dimensions required in the UN are integrated in all evaluations. It is primarily tailored for use in programme and project evaluations and has been developed in an effort to remain user-friendly and synthetic.

Main Features of the Handbook The Handbook offers Tools and Resources to bridge existing guidance gaps: Guides users through all the evaluation steps (from evaluability to dissemination) Provides user-friendly tools such as checklists and stakeholder analysis framework, etc. Provides highlights on key principles for integrating Human Rights and Gender Equality dimensions Offers key tips for formulating HR and GE indicators Keynotes: The main “features” of this Handbook is that it offers tools and resources to bridge existing guidance gaps: This Handbook: Guides users through all evaluation steps (from evaluability assessment to dissemination) Provides user-friendly tools such as checklists and stakeholder analysis framework, etc. Provides key principles for integrating human rights and gender equality in evaluations Offers key tips for formulating human rights and gender equality indicators.

Handbook: Table of Contents Introduction – Basic principles in integrating HR and Gender equality Chapter 1: Getting ready for an evaluation - Evaluability of HR and gender equality dimensions Chapter 2: Preparing the evaluation Terms of Reference – Issues to keep in mind during the preparatory phase, including stakeholder analysis, formulation of evaluation questions and indicators, and team selection. Chapter 3: Implementing the evaluation – Evaluation methodology, data collection and analysis, drafting of an evaluation report, and dissemination Check list for the evaluation process Keynotes: The main “features” of this Handbook is that it offers tools and resources to bridge existing guidance gaps: This Handbook: Guides users through all evaluation steps (from evaluability assessment to dissemination) Provides user-friendly tools such as checklists and stakeholder analysis framework, etc. Provides key principles for integrating human rights and gender equality in evaluations Offers key tips for formulating human rights and gender equality indicators.

Dissemination and Feedback Dissemination of the handbook: hard copies, electronic version [insert link] translated into (French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese) Reaching target audiences and continued dissemination through: UN agencies and UNEG Websites Other Development agencies working on Gender or Human Rights; Evaluation networks; Civil society; Academia Getting users’ feedback for future improvements: Feedback Form – in the Handbook or online [insert link] Keynotes: The Handbook is now available in English version and being translated into French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian and Chinese. To ensure its widest possible use, the Task Force has developed a strategy to ensure the Handbook reaches as many of its potential users as possible. This presentation today is part of this strategy. It is available in hard copies but also in electronic version. The Handbook is available on the UNEG website, on all of its member agencies’ websites (evaluation pages most likely), and will be sent to all agencies that may be, by their mandate, interested in its contents. Each agency may also wish to post the Handbook on their web pages and are most welcome to do so. The UNEG Task Force on Human Rights and Gender Equality has also put in place a system of feedback, by Handbook users, on its contents and general quality, to ensure continuous efforts can be made to improve its relevance and usefulness. A very short form is available either in the handbook or in electronic form, for its users to provide their feedback and takes about 5 minutes to fill.

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