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Evaluation capacity building with a focus on gender equality, multiculturalism and human rights

Evaluation capacity building with a focus on gender equality, multiculturalism and human rights IV CLEAR Global Forum Alejandra Faúndez – Inclusión y Equidad Mexico City - November 18, 2013. Brief history of the evaluation progress…. EVALUACION. EVALUATION.

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Evaluation capacity building with a focus on gender equality, multiculturalism and human rights

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  1. Evaluation capacity building with a focus on gender equality, multiculturalism and human rights IV CLEAR Global Forum AlejandraFaúndez – InclusiónyEquidad Mexico City - November 18, 2013

  2. Brief history of the evaluation progress… EVALUACION EVALUATION

  3. Knowledgeproductionprocesses , rules and standards of evaluation in theUnitedNations’ framework. 2000 2005 2006 2007 2011 2009 GenderIncorporationEvaluationHandbooks UNEG: EthicalGuidelinesonevaluation(2007) Shared Human Rights’ Understanding (2003) UNEG: Special Human Rights and GenderEvaluationGroup (2006) UNIFEM (2009): EvluationPolicies Creation of UN Women and it´sEvaluation Office TheUnitedNationsEvaluationGroup (UNEG) Norms and Standards (2005) EvaluationHandbook UNDP (2009) PlanificationGuidelines UNDAF (2009) UNEG (2011) Handbook of Evaluation-focusedonGender and Human Rights Guide forgendersensitiveservices, UNIFEM-UNDP (2009)

  4. Other actors that have joined the evaluation progress 2013 2012

  5. Linkage among actors in Latin America Definition of a collaborationjointwork plan betweentheEvaluation Office of UN Womenand Equidad e Inclusión (2010-2013) . • Conduction of 3 subregional corecourses and a personnelassessmentfor UN agencies, governmentcounterparts and civil society in Mexico, Uruguay and Ecuador. More than 130 peoplethroughoutthe LAC regionreceivedthe training course. • A design of a virtual courseforLatinAmerica and theCaribbeanregionthatisunderreviewforfurtherimplementation. • Aninteragencyworkshopwasheldwith LAC /UN agencies . • Recent Regional Evaluationsweresystematized in orderto determine thecurrentimplementation status of thisapproach. • Layout of a corporate guide for UN Womentoincludethisapproach in theevaluation. • Amapping of nationalevaluationagencies wascarriedout in ordertogetanoverview of thecurrent status in genderequality. • A workshopwasheldwithkeystakeholders in theregiontodiscussthepreliminaryfindings of themapping. Itconcludedwith a publication.

  6. Linkage of more of actors and networks • Establishment and coordination of thegroup:“Evaluación, Género y Derechos Humanos” in theRed de Seguimiento, Evaluación y Sistematización de América Latina y el Caribe (ReLAC) (2011). • IntroducingtheReLACgroupexperience at the EVALPARTNERS in Thailand (2012). • Knowledgegeneration and managementthroughLatinAmerica and theCaribbeanregioninteragencywork (2013). UN published a guide forthisapproach.

  7. What have we learned from this experience? EVALUACION EVALUATION

  8. Nevertheless, therestillsome conceptual problemsfortheunderstanding and application of thisapproach: • Limitations in addressingthe concept of gender. • Thedominantrationalityonevaluation. • Thelack of disaggregated data by sex, race, ethnicity , age, etc. • Limitationsforparticipation, ownership and empowerment of theactors. • Thelack of integration of approaches. • Thisapproachisdetachedfrom a human rightsperspective. • Thegrowingdemandfor new instruments and methodologies. Thisisnotnecessarily a problem, but a window of opportunity.

  9. Regional EvaluationDilemmas Evaluationapproach Consultancy AdvisoryParticipation Communities and actors How? Learning Change Empowerment Forwhat? Ritualism Dependence Social-communityReflection and Appropiation AutonomyContributions DeliberativeParticipation Forwhom? donors Governments

  10. HOW TO ASSESS UNDER THIS APPROACH? EVALUACION EVALUATION

  11. Source: Guía de UNFPA, PNUD, UNICEF y ONU MUJERES: “Ampliando la Mirada…” 2013. Institutional mechanisms and public policies Enhancement on the conditions and positions of rights holders Amelioration of the capacities of guarantors and rights holders

  12. Synthesis of some key issues of the evaluation process Source: Guía de UNFPA, PNUD, UNICEF y ONU MUJERES: “Ampliando la Mirada…” 2013.

  13. “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.

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