1. Gender & Equity Issues

3. Gender & Equity Issues in Context
Issues and Challenges Prioritization

4. Group 1 Key take-aways
Wide consultation and passing of legislation of M&E gender and equity based policy to institutionalise M&E
Creating awareness and advocacy – users government, parliamentarians
Build individual capacity building from national and local levels
Create culture for use of evaluation evidence , relationship between democracy and use of evidence
Importance of knowledge management – to ensure continutity with change of government (knowledge continuity and effective knowledge transfer)
and Dissemination of knowledge
Including community in evaluation process (bottom-up approach in SDG evaluation)
Consider evaluation action plan and management response (related to use and follow-up)

5. Gender and equity
Consider the context of culture, traditions, norms and values of each community
SGD as an opportunity to include gender and equity responsive
Alignment of policies to gender and equity responsive
Align the existing policies to address gender and equity issues, e.g. skills development for women
National vs sub national

6. Challenges
AG traditional systems does not respond to outcome monitoring
Flexibility of policy to respond to changes
Outcomes planning and budgeting create a demand for evaluation
Examine the relationship to equity and equality