This Guide focuses on ways to use gender analysis to increase the effectiveness of development programs and projects for sustainable development. The primary goal is to make policy, program and project specialists aware of simple and inexpensive tools to incorporate gender concerns into development action. The tools discussed include PRA methods as well as more conventional techniques. They offer ways of gathering data and analysing gender as a variable in household and community organisation for natural resource management. Each tool is illustrated with an application from ECOGEN research.
A guideline for SNV personnel and field staff in the implementation of gender-conscious monitoring and evaluation in projects and country programmes. Points of departure and pre-conditions for gender-conscious monitoring and evaluation are discussed, plus the information which needs to be collected for these procedures. The volume also contains a large number of practical instruments and techniques which can be used for gender-conscious monitoring and evaluation.
This Guide explains why gender-sensitive indicators are useful tools for measuring the results of CIDA's development initiatives. It concentrates in particular on projects with an end-user focus, and shows how gender-sensitive indicators can and should be used in both gender integrated and WID (Women in development)-specific projects, and in combination with other evaluation techniques. After introducing concepts, the Guide reviews the techniques of choosing and using indicators at the project level, so that CIDA staff can utilise them as an instrument of results-based management.