Implementation and Monitoring Tip Sheet

Designed as a grid of key and supplementary guiding questions, this short tip sheet prompts those implementing and monitoring development activities for Sida, including contractors, to ask the right questions. The ten key guiding questions include, for example, are adequate gender-sensitive monitoring mechanisms in place and operational? Supplementary questions to this include - do performance indicators measure women's and men's access to project resources, services and benefits? Do project staff assigned to monitoring have gender expertise and sensitivity? The other guiding questions include whether: constraints have arisen during implementation that have restricted equal distribution of participation and benefits of women and men; participation by women is affecting men's and women's roles and relationships; assumptions and information about the characteristics, needs and interests of women and men are still valid. 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 redesigns or reviews; progress reports; activity monitoring briefs; annual plans; Technical Advisory Group meetings; and Project Coordinating Committee meetings.