Gender Matters in M&E and Research Activities
The integration of gender in M&E and research activities is crucial for understanding the impact of programs and projects on different populations. A four-minute video, Gender Matters, provides concrete suggestions on how to integrate gender in M&E and research activities. The video aims to equip professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to apply a gender perspective in their work.
The Toolkit for Integrating Gender in M&E of Health Programs helps international health programs to apply a gender perspective in their programs, projects, and M&E activities. The toolkit presents processes and tools, guidance for communication with stakeholders, and additional resources. It is designed to support health programs in developing countries to improve their M&E capacity and effectiveness.
Gender and HIV Training Module
The Gender and HIV training module provides an introduction to basic concepts in gender and its impact on health, HIV, and M&E. The module can be used as part of a larger M&E workshop or alone and aims to build participants’ capacity to monitor and evaluate their programs with a gender perspective.
The self-guided Gender M&E e-learning program teaches basic gender-integrated M&E skills and is designed to help program staff, M&E officers, and/or gender program staff improve their understanding of gender M&E and its application. The program is tailored to meet the needs of professionals working in developing countries.
Evaluating with a Gender Focus
The Seven Steps to EnGendering Public Health Evaluation interactive training manual and presentation help evaluators to measure and incorporate gender, including its economic, social, and health dimensions, in their evaluations. The training aims to improve the evaluation of programs with a gender focus.
The Seven Steps to EnGendering Evaluations of HIV Programs with Girls and Young Women training hones in on the importance of integrating gender in evaluations of HIV programs for girls and young women and the steps to take.
Understanding Importance of Gender in Health Information Systems
The Gender in HIV Health Information Systems (HIS) document establishes the importance of addressing gender in HIS activities and suggests actions to promote the integration of gender in HIS and ultimately improve health outcomes.
The Factors Affecting Sex- and Age-Disaggregated Data in HIS fact sheet compiles evidence from Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia to illustrate trends and challenges in the collection and use of sex- and age-disaggregated HIS data and provides recommendations to improve data quality.
Supporting Quality and Use of Gender Data
The Gender-Integrated Routine Data Quality Assessment (ArQA+G) Tool is an Excel-based tool that enables national programs or donor projects to evaluate their data quality with a focus on gender data, while continuing to improve data quality and prepare for data quality audits.
The Stakeholder Data Use and Dissemination Planning Tool provides steps to elicit information needed to develop an effective data use and dissemination plan using an example from a research study with adolescent girls and young women.
Identifying Gender Measures and Indicators
The Violence against Women and Girls (VAW/G) compendium offers indicators measuring the magnitude and characteristics of VAW/G, program indicators, and was developed for managers, organizations, and policymakers.
The Gender and HIV compendium presents a menu of indicators to measure program areas vital to the intersection of gender and HIV that can be used at national, regional, or program levels.
The Family Planning and Reproductive Health Indicators Database includes the most widely used indicators for monitoring and evaluating family planning and reproductive health programs and cross-cutting issues in developing countries.
The Trafficking in Persons and Health compendium was designed to help program managers and decision-makers plan, monitor, and evaluate their response to trafficking and health. It covers health sector preparedness, post-trafficking assistance, referrals, and policies related to health and care.
The Reproductive Empowerment Scale can be used to measure sub-Saharan African women’s level of empowerment in the reproductive health realm. The scale shares survey items and subscales and offers recommendations for scoring.
Increasing Understanding of Why Gender is Important
The Gender Series of briefs explores the implications of gender in technical areas and suggests indicators to reveal and explain health gaps. The topics include HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, family planning and reproductive health, orphans and vulnerable children, emerging infectious disease, and health information systems.
Understanding and Measuring Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation
The SOGI course was developed for personal, professional, and programmatic learning about definitions of sexual orientation and gender identity and how they relate to human rights and incorporating SOGI in international research.
The SOGI Primer for Improving Survey Quality provides recommendations on how to develop survey questions to measure SOGI.
Integrating Gender in M&E Frameworks and Systems
The Guidelines for Integrating Gender into an M&E Framework and System outline why it is essential to apply a gender lens to M&E processes and contextualize gender in an M&E system. The guidelines offer specific guidance to address gender in each component of an M&E system.