Tag: gender

Integrating Human Rights and Gender Equality in Evaluations | DME for Peace

Integrating Human Rights and Gender Equality in Evaluations | DME for Peace. This Guidance is aimed at increasing knowledge on the application of these two approaches in evaluation processes but also at raising awareness on their specific relevance and significance for UN work. It complements the UNEG’s Handbook ‘Integrating Human Rights and Gender Equality in… Read More Integrating Human Rights and Gender Equality in Evaluations | DME for Peace

Karsten Weitzenegger

World DataBank: New data resources on poverty, gender, jobs, health and more

You’ll find a large amount of data available through the World Bank’s Open Data Initiative: for time-series alone, there are some 8,000 indicators for around 200 countries. http://databank.worldbank.org/data/databases.aspx Available are six topics so far: poverty, gender, jobs, health, financial inclusion, and the policy and institutional framework in African countries. World Development Indicators (WDI) is the… Read More World DataBank: New data resources on poverty, gender, jobs, health and more

Karsten Weitzenegger

Evaluation of Austria’s gender policy, 2004-2011

The evaluation found that a gender management system only exists to a very limited degree. In the absence of funds for gender training and staff development mechanisms, gender training is ad hoc, raising issues, but with little connections to operating levels and without skills training. As gender is not an issue in appraisal interviews and… Read More Evaluation of Austria’s gender policy, 2004-2011

Karsten Weitzenegger

Invitation to join the Topical Working Group (TWG) on ‘Gender and Evaluation’

The European Evaluation Society is promoting the creation of a Topical Working Group (TWG) focused on Gender and Evaluation. The large number of presentations on gender at the last EES Biennial Conference (Praha, 2010), the recent development of gender-sensitive methodologies and the increase of evaluative practices related to gender equality have all motivated us to… Read More Invitation to join the Topical Working Group (TWG) on ‘Gender and Evaluation’

Karsten Weitzenegger