GMEF FINAL FORUM 2011
Presentation:
Integrating Gender and M&E at the District Level:
GRSCDP’s Contribution
By: Forster K. Boateng
Project Manager
GRSCDP
Outline of Presentation
• What is GRSCDP about?
• Why Integrate Gender and M&E at the District
level?
• GRSCDP’s contribution to integrating Gender and
M&E ?
• Recommendations
• Conclusion
What is GRSCDP About?
• GRSCDP is one of Government’s interventions to
mainstream gender in Ghana’s socio-economic
development agenda with the aim to achieving
the MDG 3 that calls for the promotion of gender
equality and women empowerment.
Project Background Information
• The rationale of the GRSCDP is to improve gender
equitable socio-economic development.
• The conceptual framework of the GRSCDP is underpinned
by the following issues:
•
Poverty has a gender dimension and it therefore affects
women and men differently.
• Gender dimensions of poverty are directly related to the
forms of employment and livelihoods in which men and
women are engaged.
Gender discrimination to productive resources exacerbate women’s
vulnerability to poverty
Project Background Information
• According to the APRM Report (2005), gender
inequality is a major obstacle to the promotion of
accelerated development in most developing
countries including Ghana.
• Lack of progress in gender mainstreaming is
identified as a continuous development
challenge.
Project Background Information
• Government’s effort to implement a comprehensive
policy to address gender inequality is constrained
by:
• Weak institutional capacity in gender focused
development planning and M&E, management,
service delivery and policy advocacy and dialogue at
both central and district levels;
• Limited access to marketable vocational skills
training.
Project Background Information
• The project therefore seeks to address the constraints
through a two-pronged approach:
 Institutional capacity strengthening for MOWAC and
selected line ministries and district assemblies, and
also building the capacity of staff of existing AfDB
funded projects.
 Providing support to women and youth in developing
marketable skills and further enhance their access to
financial and business development services.
Project Description
• Project Sector Goal:
To promote gender equitable socio-economic development.
 Specific project objectives are to:
(i) improve national capacities for enhanced gender
mainstreaming;
(ii) improve access to quality skills training for gainful
employment and entrepreneurial development of women;
Project is for a period of 4-yrs (It was officially launched on
November 30, 2009)
Project Description
• The Project has three components as follows:
• Component I: Institutional Strengthening for
enhancing gender mainstreaming
• Component II: Support to Skills Training and
Entrepreneurial Development
• Component III: Project Management
• Component III spells out the institutional
arrangement for implementation.
Institutional Arrangement for Implementation
KEY INSTITUTION
ROLE
KEY RESPONSIBILITY
MOWAC
Executing Agency
Overall Project Coordination
and mobilization of GoG
counterpart funds
DOW
Implementing Agency
Overall project
implementation
PMU
Project Management
Day to day management of
the project by the Project
Manager, assisted by 2
Technical Assistants
(Procurement and Capacity
Building Specialists) and 5seconded staff of MOWAC
MOFEP/AfDB
Financiers and Supervisors
Monitor and review project
performance and provide
the requisite resources
Key Project Interventions
• Supporting the MOWAC’s re-engineering process; by providing
scholarships for professional and skill training abroad for 4 staff
from MOWAC for a period of 6-12 months in Gender and
Development related issues.
• Enhancing the institutional capacity of the Ministry of Women
and Children (MOWAC) for the coordination of gender
mainstreaming and women empowerment programmes through
provision of Computers and training in ICT.
• Strengthening the human resource capacity of Central
Government Structures, Bank supported projects, and
Decentralized structures through training in gender focused
planning, budgeting/resources allocation and monitoring &
evaluation.
Key Project Areas of Intervention
• Increasing the enrolment of girls in value added
professional trades (technical, electrical and
mechanical) by providing scholarship for 500 girls
from poor households.
• Increasing enrolment at the vocational and
technical training institutes by 2,100 through
infrastructure upgrading for the 25 Community
Development Vocational Training Institutes located
in the ten (10) regions of Ghana.
Key Project Areas of Intervention
• Improving quality of TVET through the development of
curricula for skills relevant to the job market, and the
training of teachers in the delivery of the new curricula.
• Provision of training and ICT equipment/tools for
Vocational and Technical Institutes
• Training of Micro-Finance Institutions and Business
Development Service providers to render better service to
women micro and small entrepreneurs. This is to assure
gender sensitive lending.
• Training of women micro and small entrepreneurs in
business development and management skills.
Project Beneficiaries
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MOWAC and other line Ministries
NDPC
GSS
25 CDVTIs
500 Girls from poor households
59 District Assemblies
Staff of other Bank funded Projects in the country.
MFIs & BDS Providers
Micro and small women entrepreneurs
PROJECT BUDGET: Sources of Finance
Sources of Finance
ADF Loan
ADF Grant
GoG
TOTAL
Contribution
million)
(UA
5.95 (US$9.26 m)
2.36 (US$3.67 m)
1.09 (US$1.70 m)
9.40 (US$14.63 m)
Percentage (%) of
Total Contribution
63.3
25.1
11.6
100
Why integrate Gender and M&E?
• Gender encompasses the economic, political and sociocultural attributes, constraints, and opportunities associated
with being male or female.
• Women and men have different needs and face diverse
constraints due to social and economic roles.
• One major obstacle that has consistently hampered
progress to gender equality is the inability to mainstream
gender issues in developmental activities and monitor
progress over time at the national, regional and district
levels.
Cont.
• To address this handicap, M&E seeks to
establish an appropriate results-based for
performance measurement of the relevance,
efficiency, effectiveness, impact and
sustainability of development
programme/project interventions.
• To promote Gender Analysis of M&E System,
which is a building block for gender sensitive
M&E.
Gender Analysis of M&E
• Monitoring: a continuous assessment of
progress achieved during implementation of for
example a SMTDP in order to track best practice,
to identify reasons for success and failure, and to
take necessary corrective action to improve
performance.
• It focuses mostly on the inputs, outputs and
processes related to an activity
Gender Analysis of M&E
• Evaluation is the systematic and overall
objective assessment of project/
programme for example GRSCDP, its
design, implementation, achievements and
results.
• It centers mostly on the outcomes and
impact.
Gender Analysis of M&E
• Gender Analysis of M&E System therefore
requires a mix of input, output, process,
outcome and impact indicators that reveal the
extent to which an activity has addressed the
different needs of women and men, boys and
girls.
• The information should feed into the
project/programme on a continual basis to
improve implementation and maximize
efficacy and efficiency.
Gender Sensitive M&E Plan
• Gender Sensitive M&E plan requires that
gender becomes an integral part of
monitoring,
evaluation and review
exercises.
GRSCDP Approach to integrating
gender and M&E
• GRSCDP engaged the services of an M&E Firm to carry out an
assessment of the gender sensitiveness of MMDAs M&E
Frameworks.
Findings:
• The use of the NDPC planning guideline has compelled
the MMDAs in building gender concerns into every stage
of the planning process.
• Gender is considered in the design, and the development
process as a whole, it is often weakly or not at all
addressed in monitoring, progress reporting and
evaluation.
• Weak gender analytical skills to develop the requisite
gender sensitive indicators for M&E.
GRSCDP Approach to integrating
gender and M&E
• Provided long term gender training for
MOWAC staff.
• Developed and trained GDOs and Planners
in the use of Gender Analysis Framework
and Planning Template for mainstreaming
gender into Agriculture, LED, Infrastructure
and Poverty Reduction interventions at the
MMDA level
GRSCDP Approach to integrating
gender and M&E
• Developed curriculum for the training of
officials of central and decentralize
government structures in mainstreaming
gender into planning, budgeting, resource
allocation and M&E.
RECOMMENDATIONS
• Gender perspectives must be articulated and
integrated throughout the whole MTDP
planning , M&E system design process and
development of the logical frameworks.
• To achieve this, there is the need to
strengthen the consensus of different
stakeholders and thus increase impact of
gender-sensitive programming by supporting
widely based partnerships.
COnt
• Advocate for the promotion and use of sex
disaggregated data as well as gender analysis
at all stages of programme and projects
lifecycles in order to identify and address the
gender implication of issues through
appropriate gender sensitive interventions.
Cont.
• Establish a network of support. The network of
gender specialists and gender focal persons and
network of evaluation focal persons. It will play
an important role in providing guidance, support,
and quality control in the MTDP and M&E Plan
development and implementation stages.
CONT.
• NDPC should review and adapt the GAF
(infrastructure, Agriculture, LED and Poverty
Reduction) developed by MOWAC/GRSCDP
to the planning guideline for the MMDAs to
make their MTDPs and M&E Plans gender
sensitive.
CONT.
• NDPC and GSS should integrate gender
statistics, gender planning, gender budgeting
and gender analysis into its curriculum in the
training of MDAs and MMDAs Development
Planning Officers, Budget Analysts, Internal
Auditors, Finance Officers, Coordinating
Directors etc. to support the mainstreaming of
gender into the operations of the MMDAs.
Conclusion
• GRSCDP through the development of the
curriculum for the short term gender training
has integrated gender planning, gender
budgeting and gender analysis as major
analytical tool in equipping MDAs and
MMDAs with the requisite knowledge and
skills to mainstream gender.
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