Evaluation Tip Sheet

Designed as a grid of key and supplementary guiding questions, this short tip sheet prompts those managing and monitoring development activities for Sida, including contractors, to ask the right questions. The six key guiding questions include, for example, has the project succeeded in promoting equal opportunities and benefits for women and men? Supplementary questions to this include - Have both women and men participated in project activities? Have women and men been involved and consulted in collecting data on the gender impact of the project? The other guiding questions seek to establish whether: the project has affected women's and men's roles and relationships; women's status has improved; the counterpart agency has the capacity to implement gender-sensitive projects; contractor management performance is adequate; the project effectively integrates gender into its development activities. A final section on 'key documents and tasks' reminds that gender perspectives should be incorporated into Terms of Reference, contracts, briefings with team members, project completion reports, evaluation reports, and lessons learned databases.