NHRI Guidelines for Mainstreaming the Human Rights of Women and Girls into Our Everyday Work
Deciding the audience for the evaluation will determine the reporting method that is used. Evaluation
outcomes may be documented in a number of ways, such as data collection, tables, graphs, videos,
newsletters, press releases, portfolios, photos and graphics. Creative methods, such as photography,
art, music and drama, can also be very powerful, if appropriate.
The most common means for communicating the results of a final evaluation is through a written report.
It may also be appropriate to have a mixed method, where the evaluation reported to the staff of the
NHRI may be in a creative form, while the evaluation to the NHRI members and funders, if involved, may
be a written report
When recording the success of the gender mainstreaming strategy, the focus should be on documenting
the outcomes rather than the outputs of the activity. It is, of course, also useful to acknowledge the
outputs, such as how many focus groups or workshops were held, how many staff and/or external
stakeholders were involved and the number of policies that were identified for revision.
Implementing the gender mainstreaming strategy is, however, not the same as achieving results from
the Strategy. It is important to know whether the outcomes that were established at the planning stage
of the strategy have been achieved, and whether formal and substantive gender equality between
women and men has improved.
RESOURCES: DEVELOPING A NHRI GENDER MAINSTREAMING
STRATEGY
Logic model
• APF (2019) Manual on Human Rights Education (Chapter 6 and Chapter 9).
Available at: www.asiapacificforum.net/resources/human-rights-educationmanual/
• The Use of Logic Models (2011), (4.07). Available at: https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=OZ2oBVCDU9I
Gender auditing
• European Institute for Gender Equality, Gender audit as a gender
mainstreaming tool. Available at: https://eige.europa.eu/gendermainstreaming/methods-tools/gender-audit
• European Institute for Gender Equality, Checklist: Key questions for
organisational change. Available at: https://eige.europa.eu/gendermainstreaming/toolkits/gender-institutional-transformation/checklist-keyquestions-organisational-change
• GIZ Gender Programme (2018) Participatory Gender Audits: Transfer of
knowledge and experience in the Middle East. Available at: https://www.
youtube.com/watch?v=B_6gEnpZQY8
• InterAction (2010) The Gender Audit Handbook: A Tool for Organizational
Self-Assessment and Transformation. Available at: https://www.interaction.
org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Gender-Audit-Handbook-2010-Copy.pdf
• International Labour Organization (2012) A Manual for Gender Audit
Facilitators: The ILO Participatory Gender Audit Methodology (2nd ed).
Available at: https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/--gender/documents/publication/wcms_187411.pdf
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