Gender is a very current topic in the evaluation community, and was given an additional impetus with the “no one left behind” imperative of the Sustainable Development Goals. Furthermore, it is important to understand this context/theme in order to adopt evaluation plans that are adequate not only for data collection but also for understanding the results and their use to improve the everyday life of women, children, the elderly and other vulnerable groups.
This edition of Evaluation Matters seeks to contribute to the debate around some of these questions, including: what types of approaches and methods that meaningfully include gender in evaluation have shown promising results? What type of information should an evaluation seek in order to assess the different impacts of development interventions on women and men at all levels? How could evaluation approaches support the change in mindset required to achieve wider societal impacts (transformative gender equality and women’s empowerment practices)?
