June 14, 2023 and June 22, 2023

Stakeholder Engagement

Gender Equality and Governance Evidence and Gap Map in East and West Africa

About the Annual Meeting

About the Event

About the Workshop

About the Conference

The International Centre for Evaluation and Development (ICED) held two consultative meetings with Hewlett grantees and stakeholders in East and West Africa on gender equality and governance. The first of the two consultative meetings was an Anglophone engagement which targeted grantees in Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania, and was held on June 14, 2023 at the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) in Accra, Ghana. The second consultative meeting was a Francophone engagement targeting grantees in Dakar, Senegal, and was held on June 22, 2023.

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Concept Note

ICED received funding from the Hewlett Foundation to develop an Evidence and Gap Map for Gender Equity that will enable the production and design of Evidence-Based Decision-Making Products (EBDMPs) and tools that can promote high utilization of evidence in the Foundation’s Gender Equity and Governance Program in West and East Africa, and support the work of the Foundation’s grantees.

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The specific objectives for this work with the Foundation involve the development of an Evidence and Gap Map (EGM); conducting evidence synthesis; and the publication of cell-wise synthesis and summaries for policy briefs, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, guidelines, protocols, and checklists, to support evidence-informed policies and practices for specific interventions.

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In view of the above, ICED engaged the Foundation’s grantees with the overall aim of promoting high utilization of evidence in Gender and Governance policies and practices in West and East Africa.

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Theme

Supporting evidence-informed policy (EIP) through the development of evidence-based decision-making products

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Goal

To promote the high utilization of evidence in Gender and Governance policies and practices in West and East Africa

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Conference Objectives

Objectives

The objectives of the two consultative meetings were to:

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To gain a comprehensive understanding of the various interventions being implemented by the grantees in the areas of Inclusive Governance, Women Economic Empowerment and Reproductive Health in East and West Africa.
To identify other focus areas of the grantees’ interventions such as education, health, political participation, and social protection.
To identify the outcomes and intermediate outcomes of various interventions in Inclusive Governance, Women Economic Empowerment and Reproductive Health.
To develop a shared understanding of the Evidence and Gap Map for Gender Equality and its potential role in promoting evidence-informed policies and practices for specific interventions.
To identify the challenges and opportunities for evidence-informed policies and practices in the context of the grantees’ interventions.
To identify the potential uses of the Evidence and Gap Map for Gender Equality by the grantees, such as informing program design, monitoring and evaluation and advocacy.