STEP 1 Defining intended use and intended users
STEP 2 Identifying gender and ICT issues
STEP 3 Finalising evaluation questions
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WORKSHEET 3 GENERATING QUESTIONS
As facilitator or team leader, organise a session with your evaluation team to brainstorm and develop your evaluation questions. Remember that your evaluation questions must refer to the gender and ICT issues that you identified in STEP 2.
Ask each member of your evaluation team to list five to 10 things s/he would like to know about the project. (You can decide the number of items each member of the team can come up with based on the number of questions you want to ask. To help them, ask each member to answer the question: What do you really want to learn about gender issues in the project?)
Group your evaluation team into three or smaller groups and ask them to combine their lists into one list of five to 10 things that their group wants to know. Each group must establish their priorities.
Finally, the evaluation team regroups into one to come up with a list of five to 10 things they all agree they want to know. From this list, the team can then develop a set of evaluation questions that it can focus on in the evaluation exercise.
TIP Focusing on an evaluation means dealing with several basic concerns answered by the following questions: |
What is the objective of the evaluation exercise? How will the information be used? What new knowledge can be achieved after the evaluation? |
Additional Questions to Help the Team |
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Project Planning Was gender equality or women’s empowerment taken into account when the project goals were articulated? What was stated regarding how ICTs were to be used in the project? Was there a common understanding of the gender project goals among stakeholders? Implementation of Project Activities What was the division of labour between women and men and within each sex group, for example, among young women and older women in the project implementation process? Participation and Experience What was the level of women and men’s participation in project activities? What was the nature of women and men’s participation in project activities? Did women and men participate equally in decision-making? |
What was the experience of working with women and men in ICT skills training? What was the experience of working with women only? Project Effectiveness EFFECTIVENESS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TOOLS What was the stated purpose of the information systems and tools created for the ICT initiative? How did women and men experience their effectiveness? Networking and Partnerships How did technology facilitate the creation and maintenance of networks? Change How did the experience of using ICTs change the way women and men think about ICTs? How would they use them differently in the future? Did ICT skills training change women and men’s sense of personal confidence or empowerment? |
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