Evaluation of UN Women’s Work on the Care Economy in East and Southern Africa
Evaluation of UN Women's work on the Care Economy in East and Southern Africa - Evaluation Report
A regional study of gender equality observatories in West and Central Africa, carried out by Claudy Vouhé for UN Women
Sources: UN Women
This regional study offers an inventory and analysis of the legal framework of gender observatories, their attributions, functions and missions. It is based on exchanges with 21 countries, in particular the eleven countries that have created observatories. It compares the internal organisation and budgets of the observatories between countries, looks at operational practices, in particular the degree of involvement in the collection and use of data, and identifies obstacles and good practices in terms of influencing pro-gender equality public policies. Finally, the study draws up a list of strategic recommendations intended for observatories, supervisory bodies and technical and financial partners.
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Querido Pablo:
Gracias por compartir esta información. Estoy segura que de esta comunidad van a salir otras buenas historias de evaluaciones con enfoque de género que hayan marcado una diferencia.
Animaremos también al grupo EvalGénero para que compartan sus experiencias en español.
Muchos saludos. Fabiola
Hi Pablo,
Thanks for sharing. I am interested to know the process followed for distilling the lessons from the stories. As we know context varies from place to place, how do you think the lessons can be practically used.
Warmly,
Rituu
Dear Rituu, the process was a long and quite interesting one. In one hand, we had several internal discussions, which were extremely rich and interesting (both because of the richness of the stories, and also for the great evaluation experience of most of the members of our team). On the other hand, we began sharing some initial thoughts in evaluation conferences, and there we received extra suggestions and refinements of our initial thoughts.
In that sense, it is useful to think about these lessons as principles, and not rigid rules. For instance, although I am (as well as you ;-) a strong supporter and advocate of participation of the stakeholders in the process of evaluation, ¿should we think that the only and exclusive path for an evaluation with impact is through participatory evaluation?
So, connected with that idea that these lessons are actually principles to guide the design and practice of evaluation, they should be adapted and adopted in each evaluation.
best,
Pablo
Qué interesante Pablo y en definitiva una motivación para seguir identificando de manera participativa y colaborativa esos factores de éxito que hacen que las evaluaciones tengan un impacto de mejora en la vida de las personas y el cambio social! En esto se resume el reto de que las evaluaciones "hagan la diferencia". Sigamos este intercambio, motivamos a tod@s a participar!
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