We are pleased to announce the launch of AWID’s Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Compendium in wiki format.
Building Feminist Movements and Organizations
About this Initiative
BFEMO works to produce research and resources to support women’s organizations and movements to be more sustainable and effective. A strong organizational core is crucial to advance feminist agendas and build resilience in the face ofexternal threats and to challenge patriarchal norms and power relations. In part, this calls for developing strong assessment and learning frameworks in order to track desired changes and build stronger strategies. Yet, many of the available and most popular assessment frameworks and tools are often too rigid, short-term, and linear to capture the complexity and longer term impact of women’s rights, empowerment, and gender equality work.
BFEMO synthesizes the rich experiences of women’s rights activists and organizations from the Global South and North and integrates cutting edge research in the production of our resources and tools, largely through participatory methodologies. We work with diverse allies, organizing events on a wide range of topics to deepen feminist monitoring and evaluation (M&E) practices, to strengthen movements, and to facilitate strategic exchanges and learning between donors and women’s rights organizations.
Monitoring and Evaluation Resources
Capturing Change in Women’s Realities
By Srilatha Batliwala and Alexandra Pittman
This document provides a critique of current M&E frameworks and approaches as experienced by women’s organizations and movements worldwide along with an analysis of a large number of M&E frameworks and tools.
Strengthening Monitoring and Evaluation for Women’s Rights: Twelve Insights for Donors
This document presents twelve important insights gathered from AWID's intensive research into the challenges of monitoring and evaluating the progress of women’s rights work.
Strengthening Monitoring and Evaluation for Women’s Rights: Thirteen Insights for Women’s Organizations
By Srilatha Batliwala
This publication presents thirteen key insights into how women’s rights organizations and movements can strengthen capacity to track and assess the contribution of their organizations and interventions.
Movement building resources
Browse the latest resources on movement building and organizational strengthening
- The 2013 State of Civil Society Report
- Special Americas Updater: Women in Movement
- Leaders for change: why support women’s rights organisations?
- Changing their World: Case Studies
- A transformative strategy: the true value of investing in women’s rights
- International Women’s Day actions around the world
- Women Moving Mountains – Successful Strategies and Funding Mechanisms to Eradicate Violence Against Women
- Beyond individual stories: women have moved mountains
- The Group of 20: advancing the constitutional agenda for women in Zimbabwe
- 2nd version NGO CSW Outcome document for Latin America and the Caribbean
What's new from this initiative?
Strengthening Monitoring and Evaluation for Women’s Rights: Thirteen Insights for Women's Organizations
Women’s rights organizations are operating within a challenging global context where changes in the political environment are significantly influencing support for gender equality and women’s empowerment work. Conservative regimes are increasingly coming to power and aid modalities adopted a few years ago have severely restricted the access of civil society organizations to bilateral aid. Women’s organizations are therefore under growing pressure to demonstrate the “results” of their interventions in order to mobilize or sustain funding for their gender equality work.
Strengthening Monitoring and Evaluation for Women’s Rights: Twelve Insights for Donors
This document presents twelve important insights gathered from AWID's intensive research into the challenges of monitoring and evaluating the progress of women’s rights work.
Capturing Change in Women’s Realities
By Srilatha Batliwala and Alexandra Pittman
This document provides a critique of current M&E frameworks and approaches as experienced by women’s organizations and movements worldwide along with an analysis of a large number of M&E frameworks and tools.
The pitfalls of monitoring and evaluation: Do current frameworks really serve us?
A summary of Part I “Capturing change in women’s realities: The challenges of monitoring and evaluating our work” a paper by Srilatha Batliwala* and Alexandra Pittman.**