Audit Your Conference: Gender Audits, Catalysts for Institutional Change
Webinar | Online
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Organized by:
Africa Gender and Development Evaluators Network (AGDEN)
About the Event
In 2025, there is increased contestation around the principles of gender, equity, social inclusion and human rights. Experience in the evaluation field, however, illustrates that these principles are critically important to the relevance, effectiveness, impact and sustainability of interventions that rely on evaluation findings and recommendations. The African Gender & Development Evaluators Network (AGDEN) will share its experience in conducting reviews of evaluation conference abstracts through a gender-equity-inclusion-rights lens.
Presentation and uses of gender-equity-inclusion-rights reviews
The gender and equity review methodology is an established model drawing on work by the UN Evaluation Group, UN Women and the International Organization for Migration. The method involves quantitative scoring and qualitative assessment of several hundred evaluation abstracts, to determine the status of gender-equity-inclusion-rights reflected in the abstracts which amount to a large body of evaluation work. Disaggregation is conducted based on thematic scope, linguistic region and format of the evaluation presentation. The Panel will present how the gender-equity-inclusion-rights reviews have informed the field of evaluation.
The reviews of gender, equity, rights and inclusion in evaluation abstracts serve to illustrate the progress on incorporating considerations to date, as well as the distance that the evaluation community must still cover to fulfil commitments to the commissioners, users and participants in evaluations.
Presentation and uses of gender-equity-inclusion-rights reviews
The gender and equity review methodology is an established model drawing on work by the UN Evaluation Group, UN Women and the International Organization for Migration. The method involves quantitative scoring and qualitative assessment of several hundred evaluation abstracts, to determine the status of gender-equity-inclusion-rights reflected in the abstracts which amount to a large body of evaluation work. Disaggregation is conducted based on thematic scope, linguistic region and format of the evaluation presentation. The Panel will present how the gender-equity-inclusion-rights reviews have informed the field of evaluation.
The reviews of gender, equity, rights and inclusion in evaluation abstracts serve to illustrate the progress on incorporating considerations to date, as well as the distance that the evaluation community must still cover to fulfil commitments to the commissioners, users and participants in evaluations.
Speakers
| Name | Title | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Ravi Ram | Dr | Dr. Ravi M. Ram is a monitoring, evaluation and learning and strategic planning professional. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Ravi brings substantial experience in evaluation with a focus on gender, human rights and equity, drawing on UN Women/AGDEN guidance with a utilization-focused approach. He works globally with a range of development initiatives and integrated programming, including direct engagement with communities and policymakers in Africa, Latin America and Asia/Pacific on the use of evidence from evaluation. As professional service, Ravi serves as South-South Coordinator on the African Gender & Development Evaluators Network (AGDEN) Board and is co-chair of the WHO Civil Society Commission. He has served on the boards of several NGOs, and he is active not only with AGDEN but also the EvalSDGs Guidance Group and the African Evaluation Association. |
Moderators
| Name | Title | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Eddah Kanini |