Unit 3: How to mainstream gender in ILO operations

Gender-responsive monitoring and evaluation

CIDA’s Guide to Gender-Sensitive Indicators

CIDA is one agency that has done some work on developing a conceptual framework for gender-sensitive monitoring and evaluation indicators. CIDA’s Guide to Gender-Sensitive Indicators (1995) explains why gender-sensitive indicators are useful tools for measuring the results of CIDA's development initiatives. It concentrates in particular on projects with an end-user focus, and shows how gender-sensitive indicators can and should be used in both gender integrated and WID specific projects, and in combination with other evaluation techniques. The Guide introduces basic concepts and reviews the techniques of choosing and using indicators at the project level.

The following is a summary of the key questions addressed in CIDA’s Guide:
What are gender-sensitive indicators?
Why should they be used?
What are the types of such indicators?
How can gender-sensitive indicators be used at the Branch and Region/Country levels?
How can gender-sensitive indicators be used in particular in projects with an end-user focus?
Indicators of Participation
Indicators of Empowerment
Indicators related to women, work and labour force participation, and problems with their use
Indicator use in a sample project from Egypt

[For further details and copies of CIDA’s Guide to Gender-Sensitive Indicators, please contact:

Ms. Marnie Girvan, Director, Women in Development and Gender Equity, CIDA
200, Promenade du Portage, Hull, Quebec, Canada K1A OG4
Ph: 819-994-3256; Fax: 819-953-6356]

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