Breaking barriers: integrating gender perspectives into monitoring, evaluation, and statistics for meaningful change

Thania de la Garza Navarrete and Liv Lafontaine Navarro

Chapter 11 in Research Handbook on Gender Mainstreaming, 2026, pp 134-145 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Gender perspective as an approach to monitoring, evaluation, and statistics (MES) is a technical and political challenge. The purpose of generating information from a gender perspective should be centred on its practical use. However, policy stakeholders may not effectively convey the degree of relevance of the topic or the appropriate use of evidence to inform policy transformation. Generating adequate tools for gender mainstreaming (GM) is essential to address these issues and communicate findings. The chapter identifies common challenges in GM in MES and offers strategies and tools to overcome them. It highlights how to evolve an approach from merely reporting data by gender to introduce a general understanding of the different concepts that policy implementers have regarding a gender perspective, produce reliable evidence on gender through program evaluation, disseminate relevant information to raise the awareness of stakeholders and citizens, and communicate findings through applying intersectionality in monitoring. The case of CONEVAL in Mexico is presented as an example of how the gender perspective was introduced in poverty measurement, monitoring, and evaluation of social development programs at a national level.

Keywords: Monitoring; Evaluation; Statistics; Gender Perspective; Gender Mainstreaming; User-centred (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035353415
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