“Monitoring and evaluation” (M&E) refers to tools, including indicators and processes for tracking implementation of programming and measuring results. Examples include theories of change, logframes, indicator selection, and field monitoring tools.
Why is it important?
Tracking and understanding progress towards goals[1]in humanitarian action helps improve program quality and can illuminate issues such as who is able or unable to access essential services. It can provide valuable information for identifying GBV risks during project implementation, when provisions are made to support these efforts. Monitoring and evaluation data is often used to inform evidence-based advocacy, including around the need for institutionalization of risk mitigation measures at various scales.
Monitoring and evaluation at the organizational level are also critical for understanding the status of GBV risk mitigation in an organization, and for demonstrating progress.
[1] UNICEF (1999) A UNICEF Guide for Monitoring and Evaluation, UNICEF, 1999
Why are they relevant?: Provides information and tools to measure GBV risk mitigation in humanitarian settings, including podcasts, reports, good examples. A Guidance Note and the Menu of Measures focused on the nutrition sector can be useful to other sectors.
Why are they relevant?: Provides a how-to guide for conducting safe audit. It is a good resource to share with anyone who is planning to conduct a safety audit or to explain what safety audit is. Many tools for safety audits are available on the GBV guidelines website.
Why are they relevant?: Provides a set of tools to use DTM for GBV that can be a reference in similar work.
Why are they relevant?: Offers proxy indicators for assessing GBV risks to women in case interventions. This can be used for cash programming, but also as an example for other sectors.
Why are they relevant?: Describes how safety audits can be used to institutionalize GBV risk mitigation at inter-agency level.
Why are they relevant?: Provides indicators which can be used for HRPs and UNICEF’s Humanitarian Action for Children. While it is for UNICEF, it could be useful for other organizations.
Example 1
“Menu of Measures” for stronger M&E of GBV risk mitigation in nutrition
UNICEF and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative worked together to improve the monitoring and evaluation of GBV risk mitigation in humanitarian action. Several resources and tools have been developed through a consultative process to support humanitarian practitioners to strengthen GBV risk mitigation. These include a compendium of good practices for M&E of GBV risk mitigation interventions, a series of case examples to illustrate real-world application of good practices, and a guidance note and accompanying menu of measures to facilitate the implementation of M&E of GBV risk mitigation interventions. These resources were originally developed for the nutrition sector but are now being adapted for education with the aim of helping to make humanitarian programming safer and more responsive to the needs of women and girls. These resources can be found on this GBV Guidelines website.
Example 2
Integrating GBV risk mitigation in the Displacement Tracking Matrix
IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) collects data to inform humanitarian response, sharing these data with relevant actors as well as engaging each sector specifically to discuss how to make it more useful for sectoral responses. This approach was also used for engagement with the GBV AoR both at the global level as well as the country level.
After consultations with GBV specialists globally and in country operations, DTM developed a dedicated section on its website on DTM and a Partners Toolkit to share information on how to use data for strengthened GBV risk reduction. GBV risk measurement proxy questions were also included in multisectoral needs assessments, both at community and household levels, to contribute to Humanitarian Needs Overviews and response planning. GBV risk mitigation is integrated into a wide range of countries where DTM is active. It ensures that safe, ethical and effective management of data for gender-based violence risk reduction is integrated into the broader humanitarian system.
In order to enhance data responsibility, DTM and partners developed a training toolkit on data and analysis for GBV response, which looks at what data is useful and usable for GBV, how to collect them, and the complementary roles of GBV and data actors when it comes to collection, analysis and use of data to strengthen GBV and GBV risk mitigation responses.
