Indigeneous-Endogenous M&E Practice in Africa for Sustainable Societies

A disillusioning contemporary reality is the growing regression of gender equality gains of the past half century.
Based on the lived realities of gendered populations on the continent, this presentation will remind participants of the practical and political (read power) dimensions of development and its evaluation in African contexts. The session will present the research-based and tested participatory, gender, and rights-responsive approach to M&E that fosters community participation and rights-based social inclusion developed by the Africa Gender & Development Evaluators Network.
The AGDEN M&E Approach is grounded in feminist theorising and principles. It fuses the key notions of power and privilege, so central to the lived realities of women and men in contemporary African development action, with the global human rights standards and moulds these two into the two axes of agency in the human rights-based approach, i.e., duty bearers and rights holders. The result is an appropriate and adequate response to sustainable and equitable development programming, monitoring, and evaluation.