4.2 EvalGender+
Overview
Gender equality and social equity are central to ensure the realization of sustainable and equitable development, including in emergency and humanitarian contexts. The persistence of social inequity and significant gender inequalities in the world, including in low, middle and high income countries, presents a major barrier to development, negating fundamental human rights and the expansion of human freedoms. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include gender-equality and reducing inequalities as two stand-alone goals (SDG 5 and SDG 10). These are also mainstreamed within all goals. Given that the SDGs will be “localized” in national development goals and strategies, gender equality and social equity are expected to be among the key strategies and outcomes mainstreamed in global and national development strategies.
EvalGender+ wants to contribute to achieving social equity and gender equality by
Community of Practice
The Community of Practice on Gender and Evaluation, with more than 1,100 members globally is an open global platform that promotes engendering national policy through evaluation. Gender and Evaluation will serve as a knowledge hub for equity-focused and gender-responsive evaluation (EFGRE) on behalf of EvalGender+.
We invite you to join the CoP by signing up at http://gendereval.ning.com [1] and be part of the Gender and Evaluation growing community!
4.2.1 EvalGender Concept Note
As the world transitions into the post-2015 sustainable development agenda with a new set of SDGs, with an increased emphasis on gender equality and reducing inequalities, and the General Assembly adopts a new resolution reaffirming the importance of strengthening national evaluation capacity recognizing 2015 as the International Year of Evaluation, there is an unprecedented opportunity to better inform the SDGs at the global, regional and national level with credible equity focused and gender responsive evaluative evidence. Channeling this evidence into the post-2015 agenda will be achieved through mainstreaming social equity and gender responsiveness into the evaluability of the SDGs and engendering evaluation systems and policies, requiring the full coordinated participation of all interested stakeholders.
The Concept note provides detail information on the rationale, aims and proposed activities of this network.
