Evaluation capacity building with a focus on gender equality,

multiculturalism and human rightsIV CLEAR Global Forum

Alejandra Faúndez – Inclusión y EquidadMexico City - November 18, 2013

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Brief history of the evaluation progress…

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Knowledge production processes , rules and standards of evaluation in the United Nations’ framework.

2000 2005 2006 2007 2011

Gender Incorporation Evaluation Handbooks

Shared Human Rights’ Understanding (2003)

UNEG: Ethical Guidelines on evaluation (2007)

The United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) Norms and Standards

(2005)

UNEG: Special Human Rights and Gender Evaluation Group

(2006)

Planification Guidelines UNDAF (2009)

UNIFEM (2009): Evluation Policies

Evaluation Handbook UNDP (2009)

Guide for gender sensitive services, UNIFEM-UNDP (2009)

UNEG (2011) Handbook of Evaluation-focused on Gender and Human Rights

2009

Creation of UN Women and it´s Evaluation Office

Other actors that have joined the evaluation progress

20122013

Linkage among actors in Latin AmericaDefinition of a collaboration joint work plan between the Evaluation Office of UN Women and Equidad e Inclusión (2010-2013) .

• Conduction of 3 subregional core courses and a personnel assessment for UN agencies, government counterparts and civil society in Mexico, Uruguay and Ecuador. More than 130 people throughout the LAC region received the training course.

• A design of a virtual course for Latin America and the Caribbean region that is under review for further implementation.

• An interagency workshop was held with LAC /UN agencies .

• Recent Regional Evaluations were systematized in order to determine the current implementation status of this approach.

• Layout of a corporate guide for UN Women to include this approach in the evaluation.

• A mapping of national evaluation agencies was carried out in order to get an overview of the current status in gender equality .

• A workshop was held with key stakeholders in the region to discuss the preliminary findings of the mapping. It concluded with a publication.

Linkage of more of actors and networks

– Establishment and coordination of the group:“Evaluación, Género y Derechos Humanos” in the Red de Seguimiento, Evaluación y Sistematización de América Latina y el Caribe (ReLAC) (2011).

– Introducing the ReLAC group experience at the EVALPARTNERS in Thailand (2012).

– Knowledge generation and management through Latin America and the Caribbean region interagency work (2013). UN published a guide for this approach.

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What have we learned from this experience?

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Nevertheless, there still some conceptual problems for the understanding and application of this approach:

– Limitations in addressing the concept of gender.

– The dominant rationality on evaluation.

– The lack of disaggregated data by sex, race, ethnicity , age, etc.

– Limitations for participation, ownership and empowerment of the actors.

– The lack of integration of approaches.

– This approach is detached from a human rights perspective.

– The growing demand for new instruments and methodologies. This is not necessarily a problem, but a window of opportunity.

Regional Evaluation Dilemmas

For whom?

For what?

How?Evaluation approach

Consultancy

Advisory Participation

donorsGovernments

RitualismDependence

Social-community Reflection and Appropiation

Autonomy Contributions

Deliberative Participation

Communities and actors

LearningChangeEmpowerment

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HOW TO ASSESS UNDER THIS APPROACH?

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Institutional mechanisms and

public policies

Enhancement on the conditions and positions of rights holders

Amelioration of the capacities of guarantors and rights holders

Source: Guía de UNFPA, PNUD, UNICEF y ONU MUJERES: “Ampliando la Mirada…” 2013.

Mandates Considerations

1. Is the assessment conducted under the rules and standards of UNEG?

2. Does the evaluation considered the resolutions and recommendations of ECOSOC about sizing, impact assessment, outcomes and outputs?

Focus on rights and empowerment

1. Does the assessment contribute to the creation and strengthening of a culture of human rights? In what way?

2. Does the assessment promote the empowerment of the participants, especially of those most discriminated?

3. Does the assessment analyze and evaluate processes and results?

Emphasize on intersections and inequalities

1. Does the evaluation identify collective and differentiated rights and duty holders?

2. Does the assessment emphasize most inequal groups (gender / race / ethnicity / age / area of residence)?

3. Does the evaluation process has a baseline of disaggregated data by sex / age / ethnicity / race / area of residence? Did the evaluation produce disaggregated performance measures according to the dimensions outlined?

Accountability 1. Does the assessment contribute to accountability and for the fullfilment of those rights?

2. Does the assessment generate recommendations for rights bearers? Does the evaluation allow more extensive transformations according to “the change theory”?

Synthesis of some key issues of the evaluation process

Source: Guía de UNFPA, PNUD, UNICEF y ONU MUJERES: “Ampliando la Mirada…” 2013.

“The extent of real inequality of opportunities that people face cannot be readily deduced from the

magnitude of inequality of incomes, since what we can or cannot do, can or cannot achieve, do not

depend just on our incomes but also on the variety of physical and social characteristics that affect our

lives and make us what we are”.

Amartya Sen, Inequality Reexamined , Harvard, University Press, 1995, p. 28.