Empowerment Evaluation

  Many bodies aim to mainstream gender, but few track how effective they are in doing so with monitoring and evaluation.  The mechanisms used to monitor and evaluate development programmes, projects and policies have so far been largely gender blind....

The Women’s Empowerment Demonstration Project (WEDP) is a continuing activity of the United States Insitute of Peace and Alliance for Peacebuilding’s, Peacebuilding Evaluation Project. WEDP is a research project that examines the effectiveness of the processes six different interventions are taking to enhance women’s empowerment and to assess the rigor with which the interventions are using in evaluating their effectiveness. ...