LIEPP is glad to invite you to a new session of the cycle of seminars "Methods and Approaches in Evaluation" (METHEVAL):, organized in collaboration with Cité du Genre and Gender Studies Programme (Sciences Po).

Taking gender into account in evaluation: from theory to practice

Thursday February 6th. 5pm-6pm.

Speakers: 

Muriel Fonder, IWEPS et UCLouvain. Muriel Fonder is an evaluation specialist at IWEPS (Belgium). She works on evaluations in a variety of fields (employement, childhood, housing, public governance, etc.). She is interested in causal methods and the integration of cross-cutting dimensions such as gender and sustainability into any evaluation.
Noémie Lequet, Quadrant Conseil. Noémie is a consultant and associate at Quadrant Conseil. She has multiple experiences of taking gender into account in evaluation, especially in the fields of higher education and research, sports, and education. She is a member of the "gender and evaluation" working group of the French Evaluation Society.

Catherine Fallon, University of Liège. Catherine is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Liège and heads the Spiral research centre. Her research focuses on risk management, innovation policies and the evaluation of public policy instruments and technological choices.

Abstract: 

In our European societies, gender inequalities persist in a great many areas (employment, poverty, division of time, participation in decision-making, etc.). From the mid-1990s onwards, the European institutions have subscribed to the "gender mainstreaming" approach, which is binding on all stakeholders, covers all phases of the "policy cycle" and therefore applies to the evaluation phase. A great deal of work has been done in the evaluation world, but gender sensitive evaluations are still rare and often confined to the restricted field of gender equality policies. With this presentation, we’d like to highlight available tools to facilitate the integration of a gender perspective in any evaluation but also to share our own experiences and lessons learned.