1. Evaluation of Priority Gender Equality
Thursday 1 December
Internal Oversight Service

2. 1
Evaluation purpose
GEAP entering its last biennium: propitious period to review progress achieved and challenges (summative aspect)
Inform the upcoming Medium term strategy with a clear roadmap to take the global priority forward (formative aspect)

3. Key evaluation questions2
Key evaluation questions
Is UNESCO’s approach to promoting Gender Equality adequate, and what are practical ways to move the organization’s global priority forward?
What results have been achieved so far and what factors have contributed to their achievement or non-achievement?
What are UNESCO’s comparative advantages in the promotion of Gender Equality, and how should the Organization focus its work in the future?

4. Evaluation methodology3
Evaluation methodology
Utilization-focused approach with high level of participation of stakeholders & a core reference group
Key components: Institutional analysis, evaluation of the gender equality training programme & review of activities on a sample basis
Data collection: desk review, interviews, self-assessment, field trips, organisation-wide survey
Use of the UNEG handbook for the integration of Gender Equality and Human Rights in evaluation

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Dissemination and Feedback
Dissemination of the handbook:
electronic version [ =980]
translated into (French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese)
Getting users’ feedback for future improvements:
Feedback Form – in the Handbook
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.