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Integrating a Gender Dimension into Monitoring & Evaluation of Rural Development Projects
Framework, Governance and Gender, Land Governance, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe Toolkit for Integrating Gender into Monitoring and Evaluation has been developed to assist project task teams, borrowers and partners to recognize and address gender concerns in designing rural development sector projects, to monitor progress in gender integration during implementation, and to evaluate its impact in achieving overall rural well-being. The toolkit contains among other things...
Score Card for Gender Responsive Agricultural Service Provision
Africa, Land Governance, Public Administration, Questionnaire , UN WomenThis scorecard, developed by UN-Woman and The Gender Monitoring Office, can be used for measuring access of women and men farmers to agricultural services, including inputs such as seeds and fertilizers, as well as financial services and land access. The goal is to identify both obstacles to access, improvements in service design, and gender gaps in service provision.
Election Transparency Scorecard
Electoral Systems, Questionnaire , Civil SocietyTo ensure public confidence in elections, voting technology should be transparent; election procedures should promote openness along with security; election laws should make it easy for candidates and/or voters to get reliable, manual recounts in close elections or when there is initial evidence of a problem in the election; and most importantly, citizens must be able to freely participate in...
Scorecard: Performance Indicators for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
Governance and Gender, Questionnaire , Other UN AgencyThe Scorecard is intended to provide an assessment of what the UNCT as a whole contributes to gender mainstreaming and consequently to the promotion of gender equality in the country. The main focus is on gender mainstreaming strategies and processes, rather than on development results. The Scorecard helps UNCTs become more aware of their own performance on gender equality and thus better...
Monitoring Peace Consolidation - United Nations Practitioners´ Guide to Benchmarking
Conflict, Framework, Other UN AgencyThis handbook aims to provide basic principles, guidelines and resources that will enable United Nations field presences to assess progress towards or regress away from peace consolidation. It may be seen as a first step towards establishing more formalized benchmarking systems to be used by United Nations field presences, including more specific formats and procedures for benchmarking...
State of the worlds mothers 2012
Report, Civil SocietyThe focus of the Save the Children 13th annual State of the World's Mothers report is on the 171 million children globally who due to the physical and mental effects of poor nutrition in the earliest months of life do not have the opportunity to reach their full potential. The report using different Indices, ranks countries and shows which ones are doing the best and which are doing the worst at...
Connecting outcomes to indicators: the Santa Cruz, California Community Assessment Project
Book, Local Governance and Decentralization, Civil SocietySanta Cruz County, California has one of the oldest community indicator projects, with the first year of its Community Assessment Project (CAP) starting in 1994 and continuing through 2006 and beyond. This paper outlines the history of the CAP, how it reveals the quality of life in the county, and how it educates community members. It also describes the successes of the CAP in acting as a...
Comparing quantitative results from three different methods: do they tell the same story?
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Carribean, Local Governance and Decentralization, Public Administration, Academic/Think TankThis Briefing Note from Oxford Policy Management explores the experience from two studies in the Maldives and in Jamaica. In both studies a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods was used, linked by a scorecard approach. By ‘scorecard’ we refer to a set of questions that is the same in the focus groups and the quantitative interviews. Using the results from...