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.

Increased convenience and reduced security and safety risks for women and girls due to gender-responsive design features

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increased convenience and reduced security and safety risks for women and girls due to gender-responsive design features

INDICATOR(S)

• Perceptions of safety when using modes of public transport, by sex and age

Increased convenience and reduced security and safety risks for women and girls due to gender-responsive design features

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increased convenience and reduced security and safety risks for women and girls due to gender-responsive design features

INDICATOR(S)

• Number of physical and sexual assaults on public transport reported by women and girls (including by female staff)

Increased community awareness of women's rights and capacities

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increased community awareness of women's rights and capacities

INDICATOR(S)

• Evidence of changes in attitudes of women and men (including youth) on appropriate roles for women and their right to participate in governance and public administration

Increased capacity of women to understand and use financial, banking, and business services effectively

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increased capacity of women to understand and use financial, banking, and business services effectively

INDICATOR(S)

• Number of organizations supported under (X agency's) projects to improve the quality and appropriateness of financial products to benefit women

Increased capacity of women to prepare for humanitarian emergencies and recover from them

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increased capacity of women to prepare for humanitarian emergencies and recover from them

INDICATOR(S)

• Percentage of women in office-bearing and decision-making positions in committees, compared with the percentage undertaking voluntary disaster preparedness work

Increased awareness within families and communities of the importance of investing in education for both girls and boys

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increased awareness within families and communities of the importance of investing in education for both girls and boys

INDICATOR(S)

• Changes in perceptions among women and men about the value of educating girls and boys, and the reasons for changes

Increase in women's economic empowerment (WEE)

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increase in women's economic empowerment (WEE)

INDICATOR(S)

• Male/female rates of unpaid work caring for members of the family

Increase in women's economic empowerment (WEE)

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increase in women's economic empowerment (WEE)

INDICATOR(S)

• % of pupils starting grade one who reach last grade of primary school

• Female/male ratio in completion rates at secondary and tertiary school level

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

Increase in women's economic empowerment (WEE)

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increase in women's economic empowerment (WEE)

INDICATOR(S)

• Law establishing the necessity of workplace-based child care

• Law prohibiting employment discrimination based on pregnancy status

• Law recognizing the right for men and women to take parental leave without losing one’s job

• Law recognizing the right of both women and men to open a bank account in one’s own name

• Law recognizing the right of women to register a company in one’ owns name without co-signature of husband

• Law recognizing women’s right to take a work break to breastfeed

• Law recognizing women's rights for similar remuneration for equal work

• Laws providing for paid parental leave

Increase in legal rights

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increase in legal rights

INDICATOR(S)

• Number of legal instruments drafted, proposed, or adopted with (X agency's) assistance designed to improve prevention of or response to sexual and gender-based violence at the national or sub-national level

Notes:

"Legal instrument" is meant broadly to include any official document issued by a government (e.g., law, policy, action plan, constitutional amendment, decree, strategy, regulation) designed to improve prevention of and response to sexual and gender-based violence at the national or sub-national level.

Gender-based violence (GBV) is an umbrella term for any harmful act that is perpetrated against a person’s will, and that is based on socially ascribed gender norms and roles. Forms of gender-based violence include, but are not limited to, domestic or intimate partner violence; rape as a weapon of war; sexual violence and abuse; female infanticide; psychological or emotional abuse; sexual harassment or violence in the workplace or in educational institutions; harmful traditional practices including female genital mutilation/cutting, honor crimes, early marriage, forced marriage, bride kidnapping, and dowry-related violence; and violence based on sexual orientation or gender identity (SOGI).

To be counted, the legal instrument should address an aspect of the country’s efforts to combat GBV, for example by spelling out individuals’ rights to be free from violence in the public and/or private spheres; presenting a National Action Plan, strategy, or stand-alone law designed to address GBV; proposing or strengthening procedures to prevent, punish or eradicate gender-based violence; making provisions for new or increased services to victims of violence; proposing new legal remedies for addressing GBV such as the use of restraining orders or establishing new legal procedures that allow for the provision of services by NGOs.

Increase in legal rights

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increase in legal rights

INDICATOR(S)

• Number of legal instruments drafted, proposed or adopted with (X agency's) assistance designed to promote gender equality or non-discrimination against women or girls at the national or sub-national level

Notes:

"Legal instrument" is meant broadly to include any official document issued by a government (e.g., law, policy, action plan, constitutional amendment, decree, strategy, regulation) designed to promote or strengthen gender equality or non-discrimination on the basis of sex at the national or sub-national level, which was drafted, proposed or adopted with X organization's assistance. This assistance could be targeted directly to the host government or to CSOs working on the legal instrument.

To be counted, the legal instrument should have as its objective or intent one or more of the following: reducing an aspect of social, economic, or political inequality between women and men, girls and boys; ensuring that women and men, girls and boys, have equal opportunities to benefit from and contribute to social, political, economic, and cultural development, to realize their human rights, or to have access to/control over resources necessary to survive and thrive; or preventing gender-related discrimination or compensating for past gender-related discrimination or historical disadvantage.

Increase in women's economic empowerment (WEE)

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increase in women's economic empowerment (WEE)

INDICATOR(S)

• Numbers of women business organizations

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