This facilitator’s guide provides essential information to organise and implement a one-and-a-half days training session on monitoring and evaluating (M&E) gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and mitigation programmes. The accompanying module is designed and intended to be delivered following the two-day training sessions on Gender-Based Violence: A Primer. The module is intended to be a basic introduction to monitoring and evaluation, and should b merely a first step in encouraging workshop participants to build their individual and organisational capacity to monitor and evaluate their programmes.
Facilitators assist participants to develop key components of an M&E plan for each of the four major categories of gender-based violence intervention: community mobilisation; behaviour change communication; services; and law and public policy.
The first section of the guide aims to assist facilitators in pre-workshop planning and preparation. This is then followed by a discussion on types of GBV intervention and challenges associated with monitoring and evaluating GBV programmes.
Within the workshop itself, certain sections are organised around the following three components:
- M&E Fundamentals introduces the basics of M&E, including the definitions, purpose and challenges of M&E. It also shows how M&E fits into the programme life cycle and covers the different components of M&E plans.
- Frameworks discusses the importance and uses of frameworks in the process of developing plans for programme M&E. It discusses the specifics of conceptual frameworks, logic models and results frameworks, and includes an explanation of important issues to consider in designing frameworks that will be truly useful in the M&E process.
- Indicators and information sources for programme M&E cover the ideal characteristic of indicators, as well as practical considerations in indicator selection and where to find standardised indicators for GBV programmes. It also explores issues around determining correct and precise metrics for indicator calculation.
