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Gender is defined as the social construction of being female or male and the relationships between women, men, girls and boys based on society construction.

Gender is socially constructed and culture determines roles associated with being male or female. (Men provide for the home women care for family members)

It varies from society to society and time to time and is therefore not static e.g. some women have taken over the role of house hold heads as opposed to the past.

It is embedded in the socialization process and is passed on through generations from birth, school system, family, media and religious systems. Church sermons, media adverts, cultural functions etc.

Purposes 

• Use the AGDEN gender diagnostic tool to Review National Monitoring and Evaluation System (NMES).
• Identify potential barriers and enablers to having a well-functioning gender responsive M&E system at country level.
• Identify and develop concrete strategies (or recommendations) to strengthen gender responsiveness of country’s Monitoring and Evaluation system.

A gender responsive national monitoring and evaluation system refers to how different strategies, tools and policies can affect men and women differently and in so doing, improve their effectiveness.

This system also includes how monitoring systems are designed and operated, as well as utilising myriad evaluations types that can pick up the nuances of gender and gender programming.

Gender-responsive evaluation is important as a means for building strong systems for generating and using confirmation to improve the work that government departments do to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Gender-responsive evaluation is a powerful tool for achieving the transformative agenda laid out in the government’s national policies in through its commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals.

In June 2019, CLEAR AA and Twende Mbele worked with Ghana Monitoring and Evaluation Forum to commission a baseline study on collaboration between Civil Society and Government for improved accountability and government performance in the use of evidence and results in the sanitation sector. This baseline report provides a brief on the sanitation situation in Ghana; the processes which lead to the generation of sanitation-related data or evidence, and how these are used to inform or influence relevant sector policies. It starts with background information on the sanitation sector in Ghana, key actors and stakeholders and their roles. It also provides the different indicators necessary, at various levels, to assess evidence and the various policy making platforms.

The report concludes that although CSOs/NGOs play a significant role in the use of evidence in the sanitation sector, their involvement is largely limited to evidence generated from projects, and the meta-data related to this evidence production is not coordinated across civil society. Some of the indicators are disaggregated and not harmonized. This situation is inadequate and will have to be complemented by routine administrative data. The report recommends the need to develop agreed sets of indicators, channelled through government’s administrative data framework (GSGDA II, NDPC, 2014). It also suggests some important measures required of NGOs/CSOs in the evidence generation processes must be adhered to, if they are to inform sanitation policy and make the desired impact.