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Although the monitoring of both actions and evaluation of results have always been present as concern and as requirements in the design of social policies, they are generally considered to be external controlling dimensions, coming after the development and implementation processes. However, without them we wouldn't have access to incoming information which contribute to lead the way and even less, to assess the continuous improvement.

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Only by knowing what is happening we will be succeed in transforming it. Therefore, a systemic and integral conception of the policies requires to incorporate both: Monitoring and Evaluation as necessary managing components since both are interdependent and basic tools, and as such they cannot be seen as separate actions to be faced only after the intervention has been finished but on the contrary, they have to be perceived as essential tools for both individual and institutional training. The Monitoring, perceived as the continuous process and systematic pursuit of all that has been acted, it is a condition for the rectification or deepening of the execution and also as a way of ensuring the feedback among objectives, theoretical budgets, and the knowledge acquired from the practice. Also, it bears the responsibility of preparing and contributing the information that enables results and processes being systematised and, therefore, it is considered to be a basic tool for Evaluation. On the other hand, Evaluation, is considered as a transformation tool since it let us know what has been happening and the reasons behind it (How and What) and, above all, it throws a light on the alternatives for the permanent improvement of the present and future interventions, meaning that enables for good practices transference. Therefore, seen from this conception, both : Monitoring and Evaluation have to be coherent with the object of their analysis, which in our case, means the training policies and, therefore, both should place the target subject within its context as the central point and core of their analysis, thus enabling for gender perspective incorporation as an essential tool towards ensuring the inclusion and the participation of all the different protagonists. From these convictions, the FORMUJER Programme included among its objectives the development of a Monitoring system and of an Evaluating Model placing gender perspective in such way as to enable to act as a reference which is permanently sending data inputs to the training system. As it can be visualised in the enclosed Toolbox, related to the Monitoring process, through the execution of FORMUJER a whole battery of instruments have been devised - covering from the enrolment date and follow up of the students (subsequently part of Information and Guidance subsystem) the ensuing surveys among the players, to the instrumentation of National and Regional Annual Workshops for Monitoring and Evaluation that have become fundamental management tools. Also, through the joined efforts and resources of both IADB and the European Union, was prepared an Evaluation model on gender perspective, containing all necessary instruments together with more sensitive and pertinent indicators to characterise and to analyse the appropriation and institutionalising of employability, equity and gender perspective approaches, as well as going through the diverse dimensions and policies components thus defining and analysing the destination target's objective and subjective profiles as well as the changes and results achieved by training, in terms of employability improvement, the civic participation and the gender conscience. This Model was applied in the: Intermediate Evaluation of the FORMUJER Programme, where it served as a base and was nurtured for the Final Evaluation, has also been transferred to the PROIMUJER Programme, as well as to other interventions within the region and in Spain. In that way and with the contribution of all the different parties, a new process for the validation and evaluation of: constant improvement of applied methodologies, of evaluation instruments, of contribution for the quality and in the vocational training context has opened up.

 

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