1. Food for Peace Monitoring and Evaluation Workshop for
FFP Development Food Assistance Projects
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2. Session Objectives
By the end of the session participants will have become familiar with:
FFP gender M&E requirements
FFP gender indicators for baseline and final evaluation
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3. Session Outline USAID policy environment for gender
FFP gender M&E requirements
Gender integration as a cross-cutting theme
FFP gender integration framework
FFP gender indicators
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4. USAID-wide FFP July 2013 USAID ADS 205 released Oct 2014 March 2012
FFP adopts gender indicators
March 2012
USAID Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Policy launched
Sept 2012
FFP hires Gender Advisor
March 2011
Report on Gender Integration in FFP published as an FFP occasional paper and first steps to gender integration start
Oct/Nov 2009
Gender integration in Title II becomes mandatory
USAID-wide
May-Sept 2009
Revised Title II proposal guidelines to integrate gender
FFP
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5. FFP M&E Gender Requirements
Gender must be integrated into each project:
As a cross-cutting theme
8 required gender indicators for baseline/final evaluation (BL/FE) surveys
1 required gender related ‘F’ indicator (annual monitoring)
Sex disaggregation for FFP BL/FE and annual monitoring indicators (where applicable)
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6. FFP Gender Requirements, Non-M&E
Required gender expert
Gender analysis completed by the end of first year
Program design must ensure equitable participation of program activities by men, women, boys, and girls
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7. FFP Gender Requirements, Non-M&E
Program design must consider how activities would affect:
Status of women and men (time, health)
Access to and control over resources and benefits for boys, girls, men, and women
Gender-based violence (GBV)
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8. Gender Integration as a Cross-Cutting Theme
ELEMENT
Agriculture and livelihood
Maternal and child health and nutrition (MCHN)
FFP STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
Improved agricultural sector growth
Improved nutritional status, especially of women and children
PROJECT PURPOSE
Example: vulnerable households net income increased
Example: chronic malnutrition among vulnerable rural populations in targeted micro-watershed reduced
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9. FFP Gender Integration Framework
Decision Making
Control
Communication
Resources/ Information
Access
Membership/ Participation
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10. FFP Gender Integration Framework Agriculture and Livelihood
63.a. Percentage of men/women in union and earning cash who make decisions alone about the use of self-earned cash
63.b. Percentage of men/women in union and earning cash who make decisions jointly with spouse/partner about the use of self-earned cash
Decision Making
Communication
62. Percentage of people in union and earning cash who report talking about use of self-earned cash with spouse/partner
Resources/ Information
61. Percentage of people in union who earned cash in the past 12 months
Membership/ Participation
64. Percentage of people in union and earning cash who are members of a group
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11. FFP Gender Integration Framework MCHN
67.a. Percentage of men/women in union with children under two who make MCHN decisions alone
67.b. Percentage of men/women in union with children under two who make MCHN decisions jointly with spouse/partner
Decision Making
Communication
66.  Percentage of people in union with children under two who report talking with spouse/partner about MCHN
Resources/ Information
65. Percentage of people in union with children under two who have knowledge of MCHN practices
Membership/ Participation
68. Percentage of people in union with children under two who are members of a group
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12. Resources
McNairn, Rosemarie M. and Sethuraman, Kavita Gender Integration in USAID Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance Office of Food for Peace Operations: Occasional Paper #7. Washington, DC: FANTA.
USAID Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Policy. USAID Policy. Policy.pdf
USAID ADS Chapter 205. Integrating Gender Equality and Female Empowerment in USAID’s Program Cycle.
Demographic and Health Surveys:
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13. This presentation is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the support of the Office of Health, Infectious Diseases and Nutrition, Bureau for Global Health, and Office of Food for Peace, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under terms of Cooperative Agreement No. AID-OAA-A , through the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III Project (FANTA), managed by FHI 360. The contents are the responsibility of FHI 360 and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.
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