Strengthened, accountable, and gender-responsive law and justice system

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Strengthened, accountable, and gender-responsive law and justice system

INDICATOR(S)

• Evidence that a national structure for addressing violence against women and children is established, operational, and resourced

Strengthened capacity to develop and analyze gender-responsive budgets

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Strengthened capacity to develop and analyze gender-responsive budgets

INDICATOR(S)

• Percentage of the budget allocated to measures targeted at women’s and girls’ needs and the promotion of gender equality, including equal employment opportunity

Increased women's participation as decision makers in all aspects of the humanitarian response

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increased women's participation as decision makers in all aspects of the humanitarian response

INDICATOR(S)

• Evidence that women are more aware of their economic and labor rights

Increased financing for gender equality

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increased financing for gender equality

INDICATOR(S)

• Volume ($ amount) of committed sovereign and non-sovereign operations that promote gender equality (including targeted operations to empower women and girls and gender mainstreamed operations that directly narrow gender gaps or benefit women and girls in the last X years as a percentage of the total volume of sovereign and non-sovereign operations committed during the same period

Notes:

Co-financing, investment facilities, revolving programs, transaction and knowledge and support TA, and loans and grants supporting project preparation and design activities are excluded.

Increased economic empowerment

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increased economic empowerment

INDICATOR(S)

• Total number of women who open new bank accounts (regardless of amount, type of account, or purpose of account opening) over the course of (X agency's) projects.

Notes:

All women opening a new account, irrespective of whether they already had other bank accounts prior to the project, are counted for the purpose of this indicator.

Increase in women's economic empowerment (WEE)

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increase in women's economic empowerment (WEE)

INDICATOR(S)

• % men and women wage and salary workers

Notes:

Disaggregated by sex

Increase in women's economic empowerment (WEE)

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increase in women's economic empowerment (WEE)

INDICATOR(S)

• % of women with wage employment in the non-agricultural sector

• Time-related underemployment rate for women

Improved community engagement, social and behavioural change

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Improved community engagement, social and behavioural change

INDICATOR(S)

• Percentage of country offices that meet (X agency's) benchmarks for integrated parenting support programmes that promote children’s and adolescents’ optimal development

Human capital enhanced

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Human capital enhanced

INDICATOR(S)

• Total number of laws, regulatory or legislative frameworks, strategies, or policies on gender equality introduced under (X agency's) projects, covering both the public and private sectors

Notes:

Measures include:

• setting targets or quotas for women in management positions;

• promoting women’s participation as voters and candidates in electoral processes;

• supporting women’s representation in governance institutions, including constitutional committees, parliaments, and the judiciary;

• other relevant measures as set out in the DMF and/or GAP.

“Support in implementation” refers to issuance of guidelines, rules, and regulations following the enactment of a law; and putting in place implementation arrangements and/or structures.

Human capital enhanced

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Human capital enhanced

INDICATOR(S)

• Total number of women whose leadership capacity improved under (X-agency) projects’ capacity-building initiatives.

Notes:

“Capacity-building initiatives” include training, mentoring, and other types of (as relevant to a specific project) aimed at developing or strengthening women’s leadership skills and potential.

“Improved capacity” refers to capacity certified through a vetted system of skills acquired, including through follow-on tracer studies.

Where it is not possible to acquire this information, post-evaluation surveys could be used to determine increased capacity as a result of a capacity-building program.

Human capital enhanced

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Human capital enhanced

INDICATOR(S)

• Total number of solutions under (X agency's) projects to prevent or address gender-based violence.

Notes:

“Gender-based violence” is used interchangeably with “violence against women” and is defined as all forms of violence that result in, or are likely to result in, physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women and girls, including threats of such acts, coercion, or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.
“Solutions” refer to initiatives demonstrated and implemented by (X agency's) projects to prevent or address gender-based violence. For the purpose of this indicator, the solutions include:

• provision of shelters and livelihood assistance for survivors of gender-based violence

• center- and community-based services

• legal and mediation services

• awareness-raising or information campaigns

• other relevant solutions as set out in the DMF and/or GAP

These solutions exclude one-off activities.

Increase in gender equality capacity-building

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increase in gender equality capacity-building

INDICATOR(S)

• Number of persons trained with (X agency's) assistance to advance outcomes consistent with gender equality or female empowerment through their roles in public or private sector institutions or organizations

Notes:

To be counted under this indicator, a person must have been trained in their role as an actor within a public or private sector institution or organization. Persons receiving training in their individual capacity, such as livelihoods training designed to increase individual or household income, should not be counted under this indicator. Public or private sector institutions or organizations include but are not limited to: government agencies forming part of the executive, judicial, or legislative branches; public and private health, financial, and education institutions; and civil society organizations such as rights advocacy groups, business associations, faith-based groups, and labor unions.

To be counted under this indicator, persons must have participated in a training of at least 3 hours, with content designed to develop or strengthen the institution’s/organization’s capacity to advance gender equality or female empowerment objectives. Stand-alone gender trainings may be counted under this indicator, as well as trainings where gender is integrated within a broader sector training. In the latter case, the training must include a substantial focus on gender issues (e.g., gender issues are addressed throughout the training, there is a gender module that explores the relevent gender issues in depth, etc.).

Examples of this type of training include:

• training judges on how to execute laws with gender-related implications or provisions such as a new law criminalizing domestic violence

• training county officials on gender-responsive budgeting under a devolution project

• training community health service workers in GBV referral and response protocols

• training teachers or school officials on effective strategies for creating a safe learning environment for boys and girls

• training political party leadership on effective ways to support and advance women’s leadership in party structures and political processes

• training legal aid society volunteers or paralegals in dispute resolution related to women's land and property rights

• training for business association or financial institution representatives on strategies for creating products and services that address barriers to women’s entrepreneurship
  

Gender-equality programming for transformative results

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Gender-equality programming for transformative results

INDICATOR(S)

• Percentage of country offices that have implemented a minimum set of gender-based violence risk-mitigation actions

• Percentage of country programme documents approved in the reporting year that meet or exceed the standard of excellence on gender equality

• Percentage of expenditure on programming with a focus on gender equality: a) total, b) humanitarian

• Percentage of offices meeting organizational standards for (X agency's) Gender Action Plan implementation

• Percentage of United Nations System-wide Action Plan on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women minimum standards met or exceeded

Increased women's economic empowerment (WEE)

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increased women's economic empowerment (WEE)

INDICATOR(S)

• Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work (%) among women versus men

Dynamic and inclusive people and culture

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Dynamic and inclusive people and culture

INDICATOR(S)

• Percentage of female international professional staff from programme countries

• Percentage of female staff by level

• Percentage of staff who agree with the statement “I believe women and men are given the same opportunities for career advancement in this organization”

• Percentage of representatives and deputy representatives (program and operations) trained on gender equality, anti-racism, and disability inclusion as well as on forms of discrimination, including biases and microaggressions

Decentralized and empowered internal governance and oversight

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Decentralized and empowered internal governance and oversight

INDICATOR(S)

• Percentage of country offices that have a system in place to prevent and respond to sexual exploitation and abuse

Improved attitudes about whether men and women should have equal access to resources and opportunities in social, political, and economic spheres.

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Improved attitudes about whether men and women should have equal access to resources and opportunities in social, political, and economic spheres.

INDICATOR(S)

• Percentage of participants reporting increased agreement with the concept that males and females should have equal access to social, economic, and political resources and opportunities

Notes

Changes in attitudes are measured via the Equal Opportunity survey administered in conjunction with training or programs in any sector which include goals or objectives related to gender equality and women’s empowerment. Projects that aim to change participants' broad attitudes about gender equality are particularly relevant.

The unit of measure will be a percentage expressed as a whole number.
Numerator = the number of participants whose survey scores have improved over time
Denominator = the total number of participants who participated in the relevant training/programming
The numerator and denominator must also be reported as disaggregates. This indicator must also be disaggregated by sex.