1. Developing culturally responsive and gender transformative evaluation curriculum: Reflections on South to South collaboration
Madri Jansen van Rensburg, AGDEN
Fabiola Amariles, REDWIM, RELAC
Silvia Salinas Mulder, RedWIM
Pablo Rodriguez-Bilella, RELAC
Sonal Zaveri, CoE South Asia
Presentation at SAMEA, October 2017

2. Gender Responsive evaluations
SDGs, Global Evaluation Agenda 2020 – “gender lens”
Equity Focussed and Gender Responsive (EFGR):
Aim to “leave no one behind”
Applies gender analysis with a focus on structural inequalities, power relations, access to resources, strategic gender needs
Develop gender sensitive evaluation questions and indicators
Utilizes gender sensitive data collection techniques
Forms a gender-sensitive, gender-balanced evaluation team
Assess how the intervention has contributed to the achievement of results in improving the lives of women and men
Culture and Gender Responsiveness interlinked
Global South rich experiences to develop contextual and language appropriate methods

3. South-to-South Project
4 VOPES from Global South
Latin America & Caribbean:
REDWIM (LAC Women in Management Network)
RELAC (Latin American & Caribbean Evaluation Network )
South Asia:
Community of Evaluators (CoE)
Africa:
Africa Gender and Development Evaluators Network (AGDEN)
Aim:
To developed curricula to mainstream a Gender Transformative approach into evaluation through capacity building based on the existing regional (Latin America & Caribbean, Africa and South Asia) experiences and innovative ways to develop technical and leadership competencies.

4. Africa AGDEN Focus Process Results
Curriculum for training Equity Focussed and Gender Responsiveness in evaluations
Process
2-tiered: VOPEs, Evaluators surveys
Engagements: AfrEA, 3rd Global Forum, Nairobi meeting
Identify Gaps - Identified Best practice and Case studies - Develop Curriculum – Develop special Topics (using case studies)
Results
Revised curriculum:
Module 1: Context and Culture
Module 2: The role of evaluation in gender equity and social equity
Module 3: Key concepts, frameworks, approaches and theories ion evaluation
Module 4: Methods, Tools and Techniques
Module 5: National Evaluation Policies and Systems
Module 6: Partnerships in evaluation (stakeholders and institutions)
Topics:
Participatory methods to enable gender responsive qualitative data collection for evaluations
Mixed methods for gender responsive and equity-focused evaluation of SDGs
Awareness of gender responsiveness and transformative national M&E systems and policies and cultural contexts
Language critical (Francophone, Anglophone)
Cultural responsiveness linked to gender (and language)
Use of case studies important
2 existing curricula of AGDEN revised
12 Countries participated

5. Latin America and Caribbean
RELAC, REDWim
Focus
Gender Transformative approaches capacities and priorities
Process
Collaborative consultative process
Survey to map existence of capacity development (distributed to evaluation networks)
Validation workshop: Argentina (10 experts from 5 countries)
Results
Change Agents to promote Gender Approach in Evaluations
Training module to address technical and leadership competencies required to conduct gender responsive evaluation under cultural conditions of the region
Recognising gender-sensitive evaluators as leaders and agents of change in implementing transformative evaluations
Evaluators as agents for change framed in 3 dimensions:
Ethical (Human rights approach, Inclusion, non-discrimination, overcome unequal power relations)
Technical (Tools, methods, norms and procedures)
Political (Advocacy, activism)
Gender equality through cultural sensitivity - analyse and question structures of power that may reinforce and perpetuate inequalities

6. Community of Evaluators South Asia
Focus
Capacity development in Culturally Responsive Evaluation in South Asia context
Process
Introduced
Experts from 3 countries developed curriculum
Modules include case studies and materials based on expert experiences
Developed, peer reviewed, piloted and revised
Modules demystified engendered evaluations
Towards Gender-transformative frameworks in evaluations
Role of ethics in gender and equity focused evaluations
Engendering OCED/DAC criteria for evaluation
Learning From Experience In A War-Torn Country Where Patriarchy Is Profoundly Rooted
Toolkits with wide application
Wide audience: Funders, NGOs, grass roots, civil society.
“So that those who work in and fund programmes understand it.”
Contextual material important
Cultural competency critical
Ethics important aspect to consider

7. Lessons learned Process: Content:
Different processes and initial focus
Wide consultation across countries enriched learning experience
Sharing between regions (process and deliverables)
Audiences differ and do not just focus on evaluators
Content:
Sharing of resources/deliverables between regions
Value of case studies
Culture and context very important to consider
Language challenges within and between regions
Leadership and agents for change
Competencies focus needed regionally and globally
Link competencies (incl. EFGR) to evaluation quality standards
Linking existing expertise and incorporating EFGR

8. Conclusion
This South-to-South project was a unique partnership across Southern regions Remarkable knowledge sharing across combined contextual experiences Project provided platform to engage evaluators from different countries within regions, and between regions to discuss issues important for culturally and gender sensitive curricula Valuable funding from EvalPartners: Peer-to-Peer small grants programme

9. AFRICA
Madri Jansen van Rensburg -
LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN
Fabiola Amariles -
Silvia Salinas Mulder -
Pablo Rodrigues-Bilella -
SOUTH ASIA
Sonal Zaveri -