1. How to properly take charge of the "gender" theme during evaluations of food security projects and programs or sustainable agriculture? Is it enough to simply associate women to different activities carried out in projects / programs as it is often practice to say that one is gender-sensitive? What are the general and specific evaluation criteria that can be put forward without creating controversy?
Gender in Evaluation is a thorny issue. I would like to think that first it depends on the Type of Evaluation (Process, Impact or Outcome Evaluation). It also depend on the audience of the evaluation report. A project is often a contractual thing therefore an evaluator is guided by contractual obligations the project implementer went into with the funder. In this regard Gender should only be evaluated if it was contractual. Let’s say a Market Linkages project had not in its design been focused on making markets work for women but then a crossectional impact study shows that women made less money than men. Would one conclude that the project was not gender sensitive?
RE: Gender and evaluation of food security
1. How to properly take charge of the "gender" theme during evaluations of food security projects and programs or sustainable agriculture? Is it enough to simply associate women to different activities carried out in projects / programs as it is often practice to say that one is gender-sensitive? What are the general and specific evaluation criteria that can be put forward without creating controversy?
Gender in Evaluation is a thorny issue. I would like to think that first it depends on the Type of Evaluation (Process, Impact or Outcome Evaluation). It also depend on the audience of the evaluation report. A project is often a contractual thing therefore an evaluator is guided by contractual obligations the project implementer went into with the funder. In this regard Gender should only be evaluated if it was contractual. Let’s say a Market Linkages project had not in its design been focused on making markets work for women but then a crossectional impact study shows that women made less money than men. Would one conclude that the project was not gender sensitive?