Gender equity and equality are recognized as critical aspects in combatting poverty and fostering sustainable development. Integrating a gender aspect into M&E architecture is a critical step toward broad-based and inclusive growth. To create a more fair and inclusive society, M&E systems must incorporate gender equality into projects and programs. This necessitates the development of gender-sensitive policies, tailored interventions, and M&E systems. This training course on Gender Responsive M&E is aimed at equipping monitoring and evaluation practitioners with skills on how to include gender as a cross-cutting issue into their projects and various components of their M&E systems.

Target Participants

This course is ideal for development actors working in M&E or anyone who provides monitoring and evaluation support to organizations and is interested to learn about gender aspects in M&E.

What you will learn

By the end of the course the learner should be able to:

• Familiar with the basic concepts of gender, project and program management
• Consider that gender is mainstreamed in the project cycle, in identification, formulation, monitoring, and evaluation
• Assess projects, programmes and policies on strengths and weakness on gender mainstreaming
• Discuss key concepts on gender and development rationale, principles and processes
• Identify the provisions in projects and programmes gender equality and female empowerment policy
• Understand gender integration process in projects and programmes
• Gain basic understanding and skills on gender analysis and its application in projects and programmes

Course duration

5 days

Course Outline

Introduction to M&E

• Definition of Monitoring and Evaluation
• Why Monitoring and Evaluation are important
• Key principles and concepts in M&E
• M&E in the project lifecycle
• Complementary roles of Monitoring and Evaluation
• M&E for humanitarian projects

Introduction to MEAL

• Definition of monitoring and evaluation
• Why monitoring and evaluation are important
• Key principles and concepts in MEAL
• Monitoring and evaluation processes

Results-Based Management

• Introduction to a results-based management approach
• Steps in results-based management
• Application of results-based management in project design
• Understanding the results chain approach

Key Gender Concepts and Definitions

• What is gender?
• Sex and gender
• Gender norms
• Gender equity, gender equality and gender gaps
• Gender-based violence
• Common concepts of addressing gender inequalities

Introduction to Gender Mainstreaming

• What is gender mainstreaming?
• The need for gender mainstreaming in projects
• Guiding principles in gender mainstreaming
• The process of GM in project lifecycle
• What is gender-sensitive monitoring and evaluation (M&E)?

• The benefits of integrating gender into monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems
• Making each component of the M&E system gender-sensitive
• Recommended steps in making each component of your M&E gender-sensitive.

Gender Analysis

• Key concepts in gender analysis
• Role of gender analysis mainstreaming gender
• Domains in gender analysis
• Gender analysis frameworks and their application

Introduction to Project Management

• Introduction to project management
• Project cycle management
• Triple constraints in project management
• MEAL in project management

Gender Mainstreaming in Project Identification

• Gender considerations in project identification
• Assessing needs and opportunities for both men and women
• Identification of key gender issues related to projects
• Gender responsive stakeholders’ engagement

Gender Mainstreaming in Project Design and Planning

• Gender-mainstreaming of project results
• Design of gender responsive activities
• Gender mainstreaming of project indicators
• Engendering the logical framework
• Gendered budget
• Application of the gender marker

Gender Mainstreaming in Project Implementation 

• Engendering implementation of project activities
• Gender-considerations in project implementation team
• Inclusion of gender considerations in project coordination

Gender Mainstreaming in Monitoring and Evaluation

• Engendering the M&E system
• Development of gender responsive data collection methods and tools
• Gender-responsive data analysis and reporting
• Gender-sensitive project evaluation

Gender Policy

• Key concepts in gender policy
• Gender policy development process
• Key elements and outline of a gender policy