Measuring Change: Tools to Evaluate and Strengthen Gender Policies from a Feminist Perspective

This toolkit by FIME awardee Lisette Zambrano provides a set of methods and guidance for developing indicators, alongside training materials designed to strengthen the evaluation and monitoring of gender policies and action plans. It seeks to improve the processes of data collection, analysis, and presentation of results in institutions and programs, incorporating a feminist and intersectional perspective that enables the generation of evidence that is more relevant and responsive to the realities of diverse populations.

This resource was created as one of six innovative projects developed by Feminist Innovation in Monitoring and Evaluation (FIME) awardees. Read more about the FIME award and project outputs here.
 

What are the key features of this resource?

The resource is structured as a toolkit that includes a training manual for evaluation teams and a methodological guide for evaluating gender policies. These tools have been designed to be practical, applicable, and adaptable, allowing for their use in different institutional and territorial contexts. Additionally, they incorporate a replicability approach that facilitates their implementation in various settings across Latin America and the Caribbean, promoting more systematic and comparable evaluation processes.

What contribution does the resource make to the Feminist Evaluation?

Its main contribution to the field of evaluation and monitoring lies in translating this feminist approach into concrete, practical tools. The resource strengthens technical and institutional capacities to design and implement more inclusive evaluations, improving the quality, relevance, and focus of evaluation processes. It also contributes to the generation of evidence that highlights inequalities and supports the development of more equitable public policies, especially for women, gender-diverse individuals, people on the move, and other historically excluded groups.

How can other people use this resource?

This resource is intended for technical teams, public institutions, civil society organizations, and other actors involved in the monitoring and evaluation of gender policies, who can use it to implement, replicate, and adapt evaluation processes in their own contexts. Through its application, it is possible to strengthen capacities, standardize methodologies, and improve evidence-based decision-making, promoting evaluation processes that are more participatory, inclusive, and oriented toward continuous improvement.