Gender Evaluation Methodology: A learning tool for change and empowerment

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Gender Evaluation Methodology A learning tool
for change and empowerment
Chat Garcia RamiloAssociation for Progressive
Communications
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the story of GEM

• in the beginning, there was the project
• which produced the tool
• that grew the community

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the GEM tool contains

• a gender analytical framework drawn from gender
  and feminist research and thinking
• a guide that structures the integration of
  gender analysis in evaluating ICT projects

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the GEM community

• GEM testers and users - those who have used the
  GEM tool in evaluating their projects or programs
• GEM facilitators - those who train others in
  using the tool through workshops and those who
  use the tool to help others integrate gender in
  their project/program design and evaluation.

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the GEM project

• GEM 0 creating the first version of the GEM tool
• GEM 1 testing and refining the tool
• GEM 2 adapting the tool more broadly and
  deepening capacity of its use

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GEM 0

• 1999 -2000
• documenting lessons in womens electronic
  networking.
• writing GEM tool version 1
• conducting first GEM workshop

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GEM 1

• 2001 - 2005
• testing and use of the GEM tool
• 32 projects 25 countries
• - teleworking in Malaysia
• - popular educators network in Sao Paolo, Brasil
• - ICT skills training for women in several rural
  communities in Nigeria
• - Peoples call center in Bangladesh - GKP seed
  grantee
• www.apcwomen.org

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GEM 1

• producing GEM tool version 2
• 4 languages
• training GEM facilitators
• 31 facilitators, 20 countries
• starting GEM services - building capacity of the
  APC WNSP

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GEM 1

• the process from GEM 0 to GEM 1 built the
  capacity of network of GEM evaluators as well as
  inspired a diverse range of practitioners to
  examine their projects from a gender perspective.

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GEM 2

• GEM 2 builds on the GEM 1 process by adapting the
  tool to various circumstances, building deeper
  capacity and producing more evaluation resources.
• Its ultimate goal is to strengthen gender
  evaluation practice among key actors in the field
  of ICT for development.

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GEM 2

• research in four thematic areas
• - telecenters, localization, ICT projects in
  rural communities and national ICT policy
  processes
• development of gender evaluation resources
• formation of sustainable practitioners network
• training of evaluators

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the story continues

• How this story unfolds, will be seen in the next
  three years.
• I sincerely hope that there will be no sequel to
  GEM 2 so that we can begin to write and tell a
  new story.

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• .. the end.