New Tools and Techniques

AGDEN has developed a rich cache of tools, techniques and approaches for gender responsive and human rights sensitive evaluation. The AGDEN approach included in the AGDEN toolkit on “Gender and Human Rights Responsive Monitoring and Evaluation”, produced early in 2012 provides guidance for formulating appropriate evaluation designs, which included identifying evaluation criteria and questions that assess specific program objectives and outcomes.

Through its toolkit, AGDEN has constructed a model for how the principles of evaluation can be integrated with the 5 OECD-DAC evaluation criteria of relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability, and impact. AGDEN conducts research studies, discusses, advocates and trains for the integration of the key principles of gender and human rights (empowerment, equality, non-discrimination, transparency, accountability, participation) into the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development interventions, programs and/or policies.